[marron]

Lost in all this is the obvious fact that you cannot trust these people (Democrats) with any national security information. During the actual war, with our people under fire, we had people on the intelligence committees leaking information to the New York Times on almost a daily basis. We're tracking Bin Ladin's cell phones, suddenly that dries up. We're tracking their money flows, suddenly they change tactics. We have "secret" flights moving prisoners about, suddenly they have airport watchers blogging the flight numbers and their comings and goings. Location of "black sites", on page one and suddenly pressure on the host government to shut them down.

There wasn't anything, there wasn't any piece of information too important that they wouldn't call over to their buddies at the Times and next day it pops up on page one.

I have said for years that this is how espionage is done in the modern era. You don't have to sneak documents under the table and risk prison. You just leak the very same documents to the Times, so your handler can read them with his morning coffee. Or you mount a phony investigation and stick it out there in the public record.

So they just spent 5 years exposing the nuts and bolts of our intel operations and then expose it. How exactly is that different from what a mole would do?

But running guns to the cartel, creating and arming ISIS, that we can't get them interested in.

[Theoria]

BFD. During the run up the Iraq invasion how many dam leaks were out there about dreaded WMD's, how powerful Saddam was every other canard out there.

People in power leak things for their advantage it is not a Democrat monopoly. Politicians get in bed with the press to fit their needs.