This is not the first time the Democrats have openly revealed the name of either agents or top secret programs in their attempts to weaken our military position in the world. While they continue to get a pass from the major media outlets, the list will grow to the point that it can not be ignored.
Hopefully, the current group of Republicans won't "cut and run". I fear that there is still one "party of government" made up of Republicans and Democrats that still feel that they need to put the interests of the government ahead of their constituents.
From Investors Business Daily:
Posted 12/1/2005
National Security: While Scooter Libby may get prison for "leaking" the name of CIA desk jockey Valerie Plame, The Washington Post may get a Pulitzer Prize for putting real CIA operatives overseas in real danger.
One man's leaker is another man's whistle-blower, we figure. That seems to explain how those who demanded that Karl Rove be "frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs" — as publicity-hound and serial liar Joe Wilson, Plame's husband, so eloquently put it — can be silent about any criminal investigation into who leaked classified information to the Post about the existence of secret CIA prisons.
The deafening silence you hear is from liberals who claim Rove, Libby, et al. placed Plame, who was deep undercover on the Washington party circuit, in jeopardy by leaking her identity but who seem not to care that real CIA covert operatives overseas may have been put in harm's way by the story in the Post's Nov. 2 edition.
Once again we're in a battle for the future of civilization. But in contrast to World War II, where "loose lips sunk ships," giving enemies classified information in the war on terror is OK if loose lips sink America and George W. Bush.
In the Plame case, exposing those involved in a secret campaign to turn public opinion against the war by politically motivated prevaricators was said to threaten the nation's security. But exposing a secret operation to protect our nation and its people from mass- murdering fanatics, as the Post did, is showered with high praise.
Granted, the existence, purpose, location and actual goings-on at these secret prisons is the subject of much discussion and dispute. But we'd guess that whatever was involved was something less than Saddam's putting dissidents feet-first into tree shredders.
Since many of these secret prisons are said to be old Soviet facilities in Eastern European countries that are now members of the European Union, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice felt compelled to reassure the German foreign minister recently that the U.S. would respond to EU inquiries.
But we shouldn't feel the need to apologize for defending ourselves and Europe, as Dr. Rice also noted. The U.S., she said, is in a "different kind of war," adding, "We, our allies, others who have experienced attacks, have to find a way to protect our people."
Meanwhile, whose side is The Washington Post on? In a letter to Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, and his House counterpart, Peter Hoekstra, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and House Speaker Dennis Hastert, called for a congressional investigation into the disclosure.
They noted correctly that "such an egregious disclosure could have long-term and far-reaching damaging and dangerous consequences, and will imperil our efforts to protect the American people and our homeland from terrorist attacks."
If they exist, these prisons are perfect for housing and interrogating murderers who'd kill us all if they could. If one jihadist spills the beans and saves American lives, their existence is justified.
The Post attributes its story to "U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement." As for the "U.S. officials," they've done something far worse than Libby failing to remember which reporter told him what. We would think a real criminal investigation into a real crime is in order.
Peter Fitzgerald, call your office.
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