Posted on 01/03/2006 5:23:36 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
"Risen seemed clearly to tip his hand to the fact that the leakers were disgruntled career employees."
Friends of VIPs.
Ray McGovern: Can we please get some leaks from the CIA?
The Slimes actually believe that Libs and Dems have pure motives while Repubs are evil...it's an upside down 'Alice in Wonderland' sort of thing! LOL
'Alice in Wonderland' sort of thing?
Well, in that case, I'm a RED pill taker and I want to see how far down this demonrat-hole goes! LOL
Wow! Great, great writing. This one is a jaw dropper.
Bookmarked.
Words fail me.... "toward the center"??? What in God's name is "the center" when it comes to the national security of the United States? And are these "career professionals" that Risen talks about people like Jamie Gorelick and that ilk? The same "career professionals" who brought us September 11th, 2001?
When I was in the military I was very disgruntled at the 2 am drills without having any coffee but at no time would I have ever thought it legal to go tell the NY Slimes how much this upset me.
"Risen says that career employees risked their lives (pretty much literally, they could go to jail for life without parole if discovered). He says they did so for pure motives, I presume that means they thought it was imperative that they STOP this move by Bush as quickly as possible.
Except that, instead of talking to a beat reporter for a newspaper that would publish their story the next week, they talked to a guy writing a book that held the story for over a year.
Further, this guy, who seems to agree with them that their motives are pure and americans were having their rights trampled, decided that the rights of americans wasn't really nearly so important as his making a lot of money on his book sales.
In other words, if we accept at face value everything Risen is saying, we are left with the inescapable conclusion that the leakers are idiots, and he is a self-centered, greedy money-grubber. "
Frankly my dear, I wish you were in charge of talking points for the RNC! So I'm emailing your excellent points to Mehlman right this minute!!!
"Time and again, Risen defended his sources as having the "purest" and "best" motives, springing entirely for their concern for the rule of law."
That's the new line. They're not leakers, they're "whistleblowers".
Thanks, Lancey. When will the left realize we are in a fight for our lives?
That encapsulates the basic difference between a grunt and a career beauracrat.
Good one!---LOL
One name is Jefferey Sterling, a disgruntled CIA employee from O’Fallon, Missouri who at a point during the Clinton Admin held the post at the Iran desk; he wanted to get revenge on the CIA for not approving for release his memoir, I think... also claimed he was discriminated against because he’s black and the CIA thought he would not make a good undercover operative or some such junk.
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