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December 21, 2005

Plame Platoon AWOL on Outrage Over Fresh National Security Leaks

The dead horse will be beaten until someone notices:

Most of these [fresh leaks about black prison sites, CIA secret airwings, and eavesdropping] are highly classified programs whose revelation could provide real aid to our enemies — far more aid than revealing the name of a CIA officer who worked more or less openly at Langley, Va. We don't know what damage the latest leaks may have done, but we do know that past leaks about U.S. successes in tracking cellphones led Al Qaeda leaders to shun those devices.
So I eagerly await the righteous indignation from the Plame Platoon about the spilling of secrets in wartime and its impassioned calls for an independent counsel to prosecute the leakers. And wait … And wait …

I suspect it'll be a long wait because the rule of thumb seems to be that although it's treasonous for pro-Bush partisans to spill secrets that might embarrass an administration critic, it's a public service for anti-Bush partisans to spill secrets that might embarrass the administration. The determination of which secrets are OK to reveal is, of course, to be made not by officials charged with protecting our nation but by journalists charged with selling newspapers.

posted by Ace at 03:47 PM

Comments

So how come we have to be consistant, and they don't?

Posted by: Iblis on December 21, 2005 05:27 PM

Because "they" have the New York Times, The Wash. Post, NBCABCCBSCNNMSNBC, and, um, Billary Clinton?

Posted by: Tom M on December 21, 2005 06:00 PM

Warrantless searches with the primary purpose of collecting foreign intelligence are proper. See analysis from the Natl Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers! at my site.

Posted by: slickdpdx on December 21, 2005 07:04 PM

You need to give us something harder.

When you leak classified information in order to, for example, exact political revenge, that's bad.

When you leak classified information in order to, for example, expose a felony, that's good.

But don't take it from me. Take it from a fellow Republican.

"If I thought someone was breaking the law, I don't care if it was classified or unclassified, I would stand up and say 'the law's being broken here.' "

- Republican Sen. John McCain

And just to be clear here, Bush appears to have ignored the 4th Amendment. I thought conservatives were the ones hell-bent on law and order? The ones with a woody for the Constitution. Where's your moral outrage?

If Clinton had done this, wooo. Y'all would be foaming and chomping at the bit. You'd be calling him "Dear Leader." And rightfully so. But ...you're silent. Real silent. Hell, your silence is deafening.

Know what it tells me? It tells me that people who talk about responsible goverment, accountability, values, ...it's all just bullsh*t. They don't actually mean it. It's just a stick to weild. Good to whack around a liberal with but when it comes to a conservative?

Ah, not so much.

But wait, I have more quotes by a couple
of conservatives with their ethics screwed on tight.

"I think if we're going to be intellectually honest here, this really is the kind of thing that Alexander Hamilton was referring to when impeachment was discussed."

- Norman Ornstein, scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute

"The fact is, the federal law is perfectly clear. At the heart of this operation was a federal crime. The president has already conceded that he personally ordered that crime and renewed that order at least 30 times. This would clearly satisfy the standard of high crimes and misdemeanors for the purpose of an impeachment."

- Jonathan Turley, a professor at the George Washington University School of Law. Turley testified to congress in favor of Clinton's impeachment.

"President Bush presents a clear and present danger to the rule of law. He cannot be trusted to conduct the war against global terrorism with a decent respect for civil liberties and checks against executive abuses. Congress should swiftly enact a code that would require Mr. Bush to obtain legislative consent for every counterterrorism measure that would materially impair individual freedoms."

- Bruce Fein, a former associate deputy attorney general under President Ronald Reagan.

What's amusing is watching conservatives huff and puff about semen on a dress but if you do more discretionary spending than any president in history, no problem. If you torture people, no problem. If you go to war, blow $200bn (so far) and get 2,000+ troops killed over something that didn't exist, something that your party said there was "no doubt" about, no problem.

Warrant, shmarrant.

Oh, but hey! Speaking of ethical consistency...

Cunningham. Ney. DeLay. Abramoff. Rowland. Libby. Rove. Safavian. Hastert.

The list is long.

So perhaps before you grouse about consistency, it might be a good idea to clean up your own house first. =)

Regards,

bodhisoma

PS: Y'all had better hope that Dems don't retake Congress next year. Bush just might become more ignominious than he already is.

Posted by: Jason on December 22, 2005 07:25 AM

You need to give us something harder.

Bend over.

Posted by: Edward R. Murrow on December 22, 2005 09:15 AM

The #1 conservative blog on the planet and not a single rebuttal.

Excellent.

Regards,
bodhi

Posted by: Jason on December 22, 2005 11:08 PM

dude, try breaking that down into, say, 300 word comments.

that was 540 words. 540.

NOBODY cares about you enough to read all that, no matter how good you wrote.

or, get your own blog.

Posted by: MacStansbury on December 22, 2005 11:14 PM

Yea, excellent.

Regards,

farvenhugen

Posted by: Bart on December 22, 2005 11:17 PM

actually, I'm churning through this thing RIGHT NOW so we can keep up that title of #1 conservative blog.

Posted by: MacStansbury on December 22, 2005 11:24 PM

nope. I'm not gonna do it.

you post this on YOUR blog, I'll post my already written rebuttal.

good rating for the Gravity Bum.

Posted by: MacStansbury on December 22, 2005 11:41 PM

My post was too long? Hahahaha.

You guys kill me. Does it hurt to think that long?

C'mon. At least TRY.

Regards,
bodhi

Posted by: Jason on December 23, 2005 12:22 AM

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Correction: I wrote that Labour is losing 88% (now 87%) of the seats it is "defending." I think that's wrong. The right way to say it is the seats they are contesting -- that is, they don't necessarily already hold these seats, but they have put up a candidate to run for the seat. It's still very bad but not as bad as losing 87% of the seats they already held.

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🚨ED MILIBAND [a Minister in Starmer's government] SAYS KEIR STARMER WILL RESIGN AS PRIME MINISTER

He has reportedly reassured Labour MP's that Starmer will be resigning following the disastrous results tonight

It's over

"The end of the two party system in the UK" as first the Fake Conservatives and now Labour chooses political suicide rather than simply STOPPING THE INVASION
Incidentally, the only reason this didn't already happen in the US is because of the Very Bad Orange Man (who is right on 85% of all policy calls and extremely, existentially right on 15% of them)

No political party that is NOT also a doomsday religious cult would EVER choose a cataclysmic loss -- and possible extinction as a party -- to support a toxically unpopular favoritism of NON-CITIZEN ILLEGAL MIGRANTS over actual citizen voters.

Only a cult does this.

Now they've lost 84%.

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If this continues Labour loses 2,148 seats tonight.

That is much worse than the worst case predictions I’ve seen.

Cataclysmic

Update: They've now lost 88% of the seats they're defending. As I mentioned earlier, I think I heard that London will not bail them out, as many of those Labour seats will probably flip to "Muslim Independent" or Green. Detroit's 5am vote will not save them.

Yup, Labour is losing 80% of its seats...

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🚨 BREAKING: Labour have lost 80% of all seats contested as of 2:25 AM.<
br> If this continues, Keir Starmer will be out of office next week.

Reform has surged and projected to pick up between 1700-2100 seats.

Wow, up to 1700-2100 seats. It's not incredible that this is happening. It's incredible that the Davos crowd is so absolutely determined to privilege Muslim "migrants" over the actual native population who elects them, no matter how loudly the natives scream that they want to be prioritized, that they will gladly self-extinguish as a party rather than simply representing the interests of their own voters. Astonishing.
Remember, when they call other people "cultists" -- they are the ones so imprisoned in their social reinforcement and discipline bubbles that they will choose political death rather than dare upset the Karen Enforcement Officers of their cult.
Update: Now they've lost 83% of the seats they were defending.

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REF +190, LAB -134, CON -56.

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