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From: John Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: May 14, 2006 6:13:27 PM EDT
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Subject: For IP? Traitors and treason
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Date: May 14, 2006 5:36:04 PM EDT
From: Joe Pistritto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: May 14, 2006 4:22:32 PM EDT
In this case, the word you are looking for isn't "whistleblower", but
rather "traitor".
Is he a traitor for exposing potentially traitorous conduct, or
was he a patriot?
Compare and contrast with those 2 pesky Washington reporters who got
a Pulitzer for talking to that guy nicknamed "Deep Throat".... Were
they traitors or not?
Frank Rich had some strong words on strong words today in the Times,
reaching an unexpected yet not inconsistent conclusion:
Will the Real Traitors Please Stand Up?
When America panics, it goes hunting for scapegoats. But from Salem
onward, we’ve more often than not ended up pillorying the innocent.
Abe Rosenthal, the legendary Times editor who died last week, and his
publisher, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, were denounced as treasonous in
1971 when they defied the Nixon administration to publish the
Pentagon Papers, the secret government history of the Vietnam War.
Today we know who the real traitors were: the officials who
squandered American blood and treasure on an ill-considered war and
then tried to cover up their lies and mistakes. It was precisely
those lies and mistakes, of course, that were laid bare by the
thousands of pages of classified Pentagon documents leaked to both
The Times and The Washington Post.
This history is predictably repeating itself now that the public has
turned on the war in Iraq. The administration’s die-hard defenders
are desperate to deflect blame for the fiasco, and, guess what, the
traitors once again are The Times and The Post. This time the
newspapers committed the crime of exposing warrantless spying on
Americans by the National Security Agency (The Times) and the
C.I.A.’s secret “black site” Eastern European prisons (The Post).
Aping the Nixon template, the current White House tried to stop both
papers from publishing and when that failed impugned their patriotism...
If Democrats — and, for that matter, Republicans — let a president
with a Nixonesque approval rating install yet another second-rate
sycophant at yet another security agency, even one as diminished as
the C.I.A., someone should charge those senators with treason, too.
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