Posted on 07/17/2007 8:57:58 PM PDT by SeafoodGumbo
This is huge. Drastic reform is need at the CIA — immediately. This is f’in outrageous...it’s treason.
But the liberals will claim he’s a hero.
Anyone who participated in this should hang or face a firing squad.
Unfortunately, they will probably make the rounds on the network news shows, giving TV interviews. Next comes the book deal.
In a country that believed in something, these people would be facing capital charges.
And yet another example - this one clearly stated and apparently cited - of the ongoing war between the CIA and the duly elected U.S. government.
This is outrageous (though I am not surprised at all).
Where are the Sedition laws in this country.
I’m so sick of Bush and his pathetic leadership.
Yeah, right. There’s nothing to believe at this point about their stories.
This is not huge. This is stupid.
If outing a desk clerk at the C.I.A. gets you 3 years then outing a covert operation in war time should get you at least 25 years in Leavenworth!
Hard labor! :(
These people need to be sought and informed permanently of their vow to the United States and to keep secrets no matter how much they disagreed with those secrets.
When I drove out to the CIA, I thought we would be a team, Maloof recalled ... By October, it was open warfare. They began leaking and making accusations and accusing us of setting up an operation to bypass the agency."
Is it any wonder why the MI5 considers the CIA to be useless?
ANY operative, ANY person sworn to secrecy needs held to the fire and fined, jailed or terminated based on the extent at which they have betrayed our country. It is NOT up to them to blab to the media. If something is going on, they can blab to watchdog groups but if it ends up on the Times, they need some time.
These leaks were all partisan. They were intended to smear Bush. While my regard of him is at an extreme low due to Jorge’s amnesty, position, the Potus should NOT have to deal with leaks on this level by AMERICANS! There are channels to solve these issues..those were bypassed to make political hay.
These actions, by the CIA employees, can be characterized in various ways: insubordination, espionage, treason, mutiny, anarchy, bad hair day.
ping
In Sabotage, you'll learn:
* How CIA analysts repeatedly leak details about classified intelligence programs with the dual intent of ending them and damaging the president
* How, on at least eight occasions, intelligence officials have made serious allegations of wrongdoing against the president's men--which turned out to be false
* Why, contrary to popular belief, the CIA has become predominantly liberal
* How a CIA turf battle prevented special operators from pursuing and capturing a notorious Taliban leader
* How current and former CIA officers fueled conspiracy theories that President Bush orchestrated the 9/11 attacks on America
* How a CIA leak to the New York Times deprived the U.S. of critical information in the War on Terror
* How press leaks by the CIA have damaged relations with our foreign allies in the War on Terror
* How a CIA analyst worked with Democrats to sabotage the nomination of John Bolton to the UN
* How Clinton's downsizing of the CIA led to the closing of stations in scores of jihadist breeding grounds--including Hamburg, Germany, where the 9/11 plot was hatched
From amazon's page on that book.
Notice the total disconnect between the Plamegate "crime of the century" rhetoric and the glorification of other leaks of classified secrets.
There is a guy name Pollard who is spending twenty years in jail for illegally giving secret information to our ally (israel).
This treason is equally as bad.
Bush needs to start doing the right thing for a change. If he had dealt properly and harshly with the NYT for their first disclosure of a classified program to catch terrorists, maybe there wouldn't have been a second disclosure.
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