politics, technology--and language?

Dick Cavett writes a brilliant piece examining Ryan Crocker and David Petraeus' language in the recent Senate hearings about the Iraq war. Seemingly unrelated, but it raises a tangential yet important concern: to what extent is the 'cop-speak' which Cavett refers to a result of our technologic society? Without succumbing to the vagaries of Blog-writers I think I might do well to suggest that the rapid professional and educational specialization that has been a marker of the past 20 years has wrought (and has still to make) incredible effects on English.