Posted on 04/23/2006 5:43:33 PM PDT by genefromjersey
Mary Mc Carthy and Plastic Morality
By now , everyone has heard the story : Mary Mc Carthy , a long-term veteran at the CIA , has been fired for “leaking” highly classified material to Dana Priestly, a star reporter for the Washington Post.
Ms Mc Carthy is not only unemployed ; she is in criminal jeopardy as well – and it is by no means a given that Dana Priestly and her employers are “off the hook” for prosecution under the espionage statutes.
At the moment, a Republican administration is in power , and many loyal Democrats are proclaiming (rather vigorously) Mc Carthy should be honored as a “whistleblower” , because some of the material she is said to have leaked made life more difficult for the Administration.
Some of her supporters suggest she had a “moral duty” to violate the stringent terms of her employment –and the espionage laws : a duty that transcends mere statutes and regulations. Some have even suggested that anyone who believes otherwise is on the road to becoming “ a good little Nazi”.
I have a suspicion many of those who presently extol the lady’s virtues might be cursing her - if Democrats occupied the White House ; but I could be wrong.
It’s hard to predict reactions in an age of “plastic morality”.
In many parts of our country , people who feel a high sense of moral obligation towards animals have bombed facilities that conduct animal research , vandalized the cars and homes of research employees,and conducted acts of criminal harassment.
On both coasts, other people who feel halting development is a highly moral act ,have burned down SUV dealerships, spiked trees in an effort to injure lumberjacks, burned down homes under construction, and have even fire-bombed a spring water bottling plant.
In the year 2001, a microbiologist (and friends) exercised their highly developed “morality” by sending Anthrax through the mail to “punish” America for its sins. (They had the good sense to suggest al-Qaeda might have done it – and loyal supporters willing to lay false trails for the FBI to follow ; but a day of reckoning will come…)
Politicians from all major parties have reached out eagerly to accept unclean contributions – forwarded by those who want to promote questionable commercial enterprises ,and welcomed the lobbyists who broker these deals with open arms. They justify betrayal of the public trust by claiming a high moral duty to secure and remain in elective office.
I could go on – and on – until my fingers are too weary to type,and your eyes are too weary to continue reading ; yet , after all was said and done, any one of us might nod approvingly – then go out to do something unspeakable – in the name of a “higher moral purpose”.
Such is the nature of Plastic Morality.
"Plastic morality," as illustrated, is a very good synonym for "liberalism."
It now seems nearly certain that McCarthy was caught in a sting operation. Consider: She was in the top rank of the Inspector General's Office at the CIA, the office which would know who is being investigated within the agency. Yet, apparently she did not know. Thus, she may have been fed information that won Dana Priest a Pulitzer Prize but which just might have been based on phoney information. That would be the ultimate irony. As noted in previous postings the CIA IG had for years leaked like a sieve. However, the CIA cannot under law conduct a full field investigation in the USA. That is the FBI's job. I wonder if someone will ask that doofus who heads the FBI if he is up to the task?
That's the current liberal idiot meme being broadcast via the networks.
Liberals have found true patriotism. They've finally done it. And wouldn't you know? Liberal "patriotism" consists of aiding the enemy by broadcasting state secrets via liberal newspapers and television shows.
I know what Lincoln would have done to these traitorous swine.
Was at the gym on the treadmill this morning and the TV was on Russert. Dee Dee Myers was saying that, well if the person thinks the US citizens should know then its not actally leaking.
HELLO!!!!!!
These lunatics are so far off base they don't even realize how incredibly stupid that sounds.
I swear if the Dems ever regain power this country will self-destruct within four years.
I've been on top of that for over 6 months, and successfully predicted in November that the leftwingnuts would shortly come up with a story that the President was going to meet the Iranian nuclear challenge by dropping nukes on them.
There's probably some more stuff in Season 2 to use, but with the firing of Mary McCarthy, I think they've finally got the ball rolling over there and won't need to use that one anymore.
BTW, the most ingenous part of the scam was the FOX angle ~ after all, leftwingnuts don't watch FOX.
MM is a Freedom Fighter - she's been fighting freedom for years.
So, Juan, she had a "moral obligation" to take the bait, fall for a phoney, planted, story,(And go to jail) is that what you, et al are defending/slobbering about? You don't make a damn bit-o-sense, air head.
And the Pubbies and this Administration have not responded to them forcefully enough, if at all. See the Sandy Burglar case for reference, and watch a repeat here. Treason? Sedition? Who uses these words today except us right wing fanatics hereabout? And we're very much with the program as we can't even say 'niggardly' any more!
Not long ago, the moronic liberal press insisted that anyone leaking state secrets should be "frog marched," put to trial and imprisoned, if not hanged.
Now? Well. Now it's the case that such a person should be applauded for their "patriotism."
See? It's merely another example of how liberals love America. Liberal "patriotism" is what any rational being would call sedition.
If someone died as a result, execute the bitch.
It would be a rather delicious result if the duplicitous Mary McCarthy, the preening Dana Priest, the arrogant Washington Post, and the clueless Pulitzer Committee all fell for a CIA sting.
"Hopefully there will be enough people...".
Key word: "Hopefully". Without a major wake-up call, I dunno.
From the March 6, 2006 Washington Post:
The Bush administration, seeking to limit leaks of classified information, has launched initiatives targeting journalists and their possible government sources. The efforts include several FBI probes, a polygraph investigation inside the CIA and a warning from the Justice Department that reporters could be prosecuted under espionage laws.
In recent weeks, dozens of employees at the CIA, the National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies have been interviewed by agents from the FBI's Washington field office, who are investigating possible leaks that led to reports about secret CIA prisons and the NSA's warrantless domestic surveillance program, according to law enforcement and intelligence officials familiar with the two cases.
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In a little-noticed case in California, FBI agents from Los Angeles have already contacted reporters at the Sacramento Bee about stories published in July that were based on sealed court documents related to a terrorism case in Lodi, according to the newspaper.
bttt
I am amazed McCarthy lasted as along as she did. She is what I consider a "soft traitor"... a bureacrat who at every turn undermines polices needed to protect America.
Your not alone.Juan is simply an airhead,and a lib to boot.I think Fox has him on to provide a counter point.Kind of like Colmes.I can't think of any other reason:)
Every man a priest, said who, on that manifesto pasted on a church wall?
Every Joe Palooka a President, a Foreign Secretary.
I just think it's a bigger problem than a Daniel Ellsberg (who did start a trend, didn't he) or a Mary McCarthy.
Did she break the law? If she did I want her strung up by her falopian tubes. On pay per view with the proceeds to go to the families of dead servicemen.
"Not even if the person thinks the policy to be wrong - just "doesn't like it"!!!!!"
I am coming to believe the dems are gathering forces to overthrow the current administration/government. They have a large body of supporters in both bodies of congress and the Judiciary is still loony left. Add to that the growing number of ex-military and the ingredients seems to be in place for a try at a coup!
Am I going goofy?
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