Posted on 04/19/2012 12:14:12 PM PDT by null and void
Harken back to Veep Biden letting secrets slip from his lips.
Harken back to the UBL invasion and the secrets spilled at press conferences the next Monday that have jeopardized the lives of the attacking forces.
Who among us thinks that elected Federal Politicians can be trusted to keep a secret?
I give the benefit of the doubt in this instance to the FBI.
BTW, I’m showing my bias against politicians with the above statements. I guess it stems from a definition I came up with: “A politician is anyone whose word cannot be trusted.”
It would appear "somethings up"....a bold move no matter which side of the divide isn't towing the line.
There' so much "enemy" infilitration in the system I don't see how they can "share" information across the board without great risks.
On the other hand, if one wants to hide dirty business and what they're up to...stopping the flow of information would create a tighter "secrecy wall".
Yes, that is the conundrum.
It is a matter of “who do you trust with information that can harm society?”
A politician has a job that is dependent upon convincing people to like him/her more than the opposing other politicians.
One way to do this is to share a secret, the same way grade school kids do to impress others. Veep Biden, and other loose lips just never grew up. “Loose lips sink ships,” including this ship of State.
As a Republic, the gradient has been set up by our Founding Fathers that each elected Representative or Senator becomes a Statesman/woman who acts in a manner that is best for the Republic. Few in Congress are Statesmen/women today.
On the other side are those who are trained to protect the Republic from harm.
As you so clearly pointed out, there are risks both ways.
Put yourself in the mindset of those who wish to harm this Republic. NOW, which would you rather have? A society where there are NO secrets, (the Obama Utopian Ideal of Transparency), or ALL dangerous secrets are kept secret?
If you choose the latter, then ask yourself who should decide what is dangerous or not. IOW, who would have the greatest potential of wrecking your plans to do harm to this Republic?
Obviously, this is not an either/or choice.
The problem that I see is that we live in a culture where there are few if any checks and balances on our elected politicians. Thus, politicians have the greater potential of doing harm to the Republic by telling the enemy what they should do, and when, (no element of surprise), to avoid being stopped.
Currently, the voter tolerance of corrupt politicians who shun acceptance of accountability has resulted in the sorry status of the US Federal Government.
It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of voters, all 53 % who voted in 2008 for Obama, THEIR Pothead, two-bit Dictator, who has never accepted accountability, or responsibility for anything.
Unclassified and FOUO.
And that means ALL unclassified data. Credit cards, phone records, DOT info, school records, medical, internet, email, commercial business data, E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G that would normally require your permission or a warrant.
Nice huh?
The FBI saved us from the worst excesses of the Clinton Administration - looks like they're doing the same again. Thank God.
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