Posted on 04/23/2006 7:07:47 AM PDT by blogblogginaway
KERRY: 'IF YOU'RE LEAKING TO TELL THE TRUTH...' Sun Apr 23 2006 09:58:06 ET
Former presidential candidate John Kerry has come to the defense of a fired CIA officer accused of disclosing classified information to the press.
"I'm glad she told the truth but she's going to obviously -- if she did it, if she did it, suffer the consequences of breaking the law,' Kerry explained to ABC THIS WEEK.
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ABC 'THIS WEEK' HOST GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: On another -- on another front, excuse me, CIA official Mary McCarthy lost her job this week for disclosing classified information according to the CIA probably about a WASHINGTON POST story which reveal revealed the existence of secret prisons in Europe. A lot of different views. Senator Pat Roberts praised action but some former CIA officers described Mary McCarthy as a sacrificial lamb acting in the finest American tradition by revealing human rights violations. What's your view?
SEN. KERRY: Well, I read that. I don't know whether she did it or not so it's hard to have a view on it. Here's my fundamental view of this, that you have somebody being fired from the CIA for allegedly telling the truth, and you have no one fired from the white house for revealing a CIA agent in order to support a lie. That underscores what's really wrong in Washington, DC Here.
STEPHANOPOULOS: That's one issue of hypocrisy but should a CIA officer be able to make decisions on his or her --
KERRY: ... Of course not. Of course, not. A CIA agent has the obligation to uphold the law and clearly leaking is against the law, and nobody should leak. I don't like leaking. But if you're leaking to tell the truth, Americans are going to look at that, at least mitigate or think about what are the consequences that you, you know, put on that person. Obviously they're not going to keep their job, but there are other larger issues here. You know, classification in Washington is a tool that is used to hide the truth from the American people. Daniel Patrick Moynihan was eloquent and forceful in always talking about how we needed to, you know, end this endless declassification that takes place in this city, and it has become a tool to hide the truth from Americans.
STEPHANOPOULOS: These --
SEN. KERRY: So I'm glad she told the truth but she's going to obviously -- if she did it, if she did it, suffer the consequences of breaking the law.
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Ahh, yes, the Traitor as Hero thing. And this spineless sellout loser ought to know.
John who?
And you've been trying to "fix" D.C. for how long Senator Kerry?
Loser.
I'm not sure, but I think he fought in Viet Nam. Or something like that.
"suffer the consequences of breaking the law." Hopefully unlike you Kerry!
So anotherwords Mr. Kerry, if someone gave out our nuclear launch codes, as long as they were the right ones it would be okay with you?
That's what I thought.
What a heroe.
Sure, the means justify the ends...especially if it's aimed at taking down the Bush administration. As for 'the truth', well Kerry wouldn't recognize it if it bit him in the bum.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Hey Johnny .. she already confessed
Seems that Kerry has missed the fact that the story Joe Plame was telling was about as accurate as his own account of his time in Vietnam was.
Oh, yes, the old "tell a lie often enough" trick.
That guy that is honored in Hanoi in the war museum there.
Well, he could "declassify" his own Military records for full public review, not just for 3 friendly reporters who whitewash his activities after his scant 4 months in Viet Nam (you do know he served there, right?)
This is the real John Kerry. Not the flip flopper who ran in 2004 and confused 48% of the voters. he came to cloquet minnesota and told the people there he shared their conservative values and many believed him. But this is Kerry, anti american and very left wing
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