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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I saw most of that interview this morning with Snuffleupagus. Both are a POS and sKerry is such a pompus-ass who actually doesn't seem all that smart. Must be why he won the 2004 election.
oh wait...
"What a coward this guy is. He can not answer a simple question without qualification. I guess they call that 'nuance.' Spit."
LOL, nuance, cloaked in stupidity. If this jack**s could run for president, anyone could. God help us.
No he didn't. He hid like a coward in Vietnam for 3 months (2 tours) until he could fake enough boo-boo's for purple hearts and deserted. He did no fighting, only running from fights.
OMG!! I have never seen that montage. "The Faces of P.E.S.T." ROFLMAO!!
George W. Bush: still the President! mmwwwaaaa-haaaa-haaa!
Thank God this turd isn't in the White House.
If George W. Bush were president then, he sure would have. So would many others like Rockefeller and Turdbin.
EXCELLENT post.
Excellent post about Kerry
Unfortunately (or fortunately for US) there are many words he doesn't understand.
I like it! In a perfect world...
In every sentence this POS utters.
Good point!
I promise that I don't get any paint on the car's finish...and it's so much fun I can't stand myself.
It seems Benedict Arnold "told the truth," too.
Questions we never hear:
So Senator, if someone was to leak your full military record, as you promised to do yourself over a year ago, would you support the leaker?
Senator, would you support leaking the full un-redacted version of the Barrett Report?
hahahaha I love your graphic
I love that little picture of the DOW being up over 100 points... LOL!
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