[doug from upland]

Leaking classified national defense information is illegal, and CIA officers, who take a secrecy oath when they join could lose their security clearances or jobs, and may even face prosecution...
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Can't we hang these guys?

[onyx]

Sure we can.

[nathanbedford]

It seems the VIPs are skating perilously close to a violation of the RICO law. As you rightly point out, the leaking of classified documents and secrets, is a crime. A conspiracy to commit the crime might well be a violation of RICO.

Does Fitzgerald have the courage to follow this line if this is indeed where the facts lead him? This raises very interesting speculations about the true nature of the secrets Judith Miller is protecting by going to jail.

One could almost taste the delicious irony if the RICO statutes could be turned against their leftist authors.

[nathanbedford]

Having posted that, and upon reflection, I drawback for my own comments in horror. I see what we have become and I do not like it. We are in the midst of the war against maniacal terrorists who would destroy our democracy even if they had to make resort to atomic weapons, and we consume ourselves with tribal warfare almost in the face of the enemy.

Cold comfort that our reaction is a normal and human reaction to a despicable plot, or at least a movement, to cripple our commander in chief in time of war.

Our job is to win the war not to convict Alger Hiss.