Coincidence or pattern?

The American Thinker ^ | 1/10/07 | clarice Feldman

[the Real fifi]

A friend notes that The New York Sun article today about the dropping of FBI investigations into intelligence leaks (mentioned in an earlier blog) contains lots of interesting news. (emphasis supplied)

A CIA spokeswoman, Michele Neff, flatly denied that her agency has resisted the FBI's efforts to hunt down leakers. "That's simply not the case," she said yesterday. "Why would we not want to get to the bottom of the leaks? The Office of General Counsel works closely with the Department of Justice on investigations regarding unauthorized disclosures."

[the Real fifi]

Funny how the bureaucracy went full bore after the non-leak Plame cases and sat on its hands when there were real leaks and destruction of classified material by Berger--

[Txsleuth]

Here is an article that REALLY spells out that other article's meaning.

[Teacher317]

"Why would we not want to get to the bottom of the leaks?"

Foolish people often ask important questions as if they were rhetorical, and as if the question itself makes some point. The actual answers to that question are simple: because it would hurt your PR, your circulation, your advertising revenue, etc. It might implicate friends of yours as actual felons. It would show that much of today's news is driven by the media, rather than simply, factually, and appropriately reported by the media.

But she doesn't want you to think of such things when she asks that question.

[Bahbah]

Clarice is a very smart lady. Since we have determined that there will be no "new tone" in DC, I think we could use a little of the "old tone" over the nest couple of years. It might help restore some of our shattered faith in the operations of government.

[Teacher317]

D'oh! She's CIA, not MSM. Still, the point remains the same... PR hit, person friends going down, political considerations, etc.

[My2Cents]

That's one thing CIA operatives seem to do best: leak info to the MSM. Sniff-out al Qaeda's 9/11 plans? Confirm Saddam's WMDs? Nope...But leak stuff to the New York Times without being caught? -- they're experts.

[My2Cents]

One of the Bush Administration's greatest failings is the inability to recognize that this country has enemies both foreign and domestic.

[Peach]

A CIA spokeswoman, Michele Neff, flatly denied that her agency has resisted the FBI's efforts to hunt down leakers. "That's simply not the case," she said yesterday. "Why would we not want to get to the bottom of the leaks?

Freepers can answer that question. I'm assuming she asked it rhetorically. LOL

[Bahbah]

I must agree with you, or, if they recognize it, they refuse to do anything about it.

[the Real fifi]

Let a little perfidy happen on your watch (Armitage defying your od=rders and killing Liberty TV) and bigger perfidies will follow--like Armitage's not telling you that he was Novak's source. Let some law breaking escaped unpunished (the initial leaks which were stonewalled) and you can expect to see your battle orders printed the next day on the front page of the NYT.

It's that simple.

And examples of perfidy by holdovers--Clarke, Beers, Wilson) are legion.If you can't remove them (like Dion at DoJ) , move them to less sensitive positions and keep a sharp eye on them.

Do not think for oe moment that there is not a high level ratline from career officials at DoJ to Dem staffers on the Hill.

[Bahbah]

It's basic stuff, fifi. Why didn't they do anything about it? We've been agonizing about it here since it started, but we are powerless. The Administration is not.

[jammer]

Foolish people often ask important questions as if they were rhetorical,

Great point, but are the foolish people the ones asking the question, or do they expect the listener to be foolish?

[the Real fifi]

quote]
UPDATE: A friend writes to point out this quote of the former DIA Middle East head who opposes Bush’s policy:

The fact that the [Central Intelligence] agency was leaking isn’t denied by some. "Of course they were leaking," says Pat Lang. "They told me about it at the time. They thought it was funny. They’d say things like, 'This last thing that came out, surely people will pay attention to that. They won’t re-elect this man.'"
This is a scandal hiding in plain sight, dying on the vine because it fails to fit any accepted narrative in which the MSM is a principal[/quote]



http://powerlineblog.com/archives/016457.php

[Txsleuth]

Wow...amazing.

You can add George Tenet to the group that should have been purged at the beginning of Pres. Bush's first year.

I wonder if he was taking James Baker's advice about not cleaning house??

[Bahbah]

Oh, my goodness.

[STARWISE]

What disgusting bleeps..... laughing at their evil and seditious muckraking!!!

As for Dion, Clarice's clear-headed tracking has me convinced. Who will investigate him?

[Txsleuth]

LOL...yeah, that Dion guy has been around for long enough to know where all of the bodies are buried.

[Mo1]

So, my friend and I agree that Dion can do the job when he's motivated. It's just a matter of figuring out what motivates him

The $64,000 Dollar question

AND IT SMELLS

[Mo1]

Ping to Post #13

[marron]

Why would a mutinous institution not want to hand over the mutineers?