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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (12411)7/25/2005 7:10:47 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Intelligence Leaks

By jkelly
Irish Pennants

Former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Jed Babbin says the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into three Democratic senators for having compromised last September a secret CIA satellite program. This has yet to be confirmed by the Justice Department.

Last December, Sens. Jay Rockefeller (WVa) and Ron Wyden (Ore) took to the Senate floor to denounce the program as wasteful and unnecessary. Sen. Dick Durbin chimed in a day later in an interview with ABC News.

There are three contrasts between this story and the story about exposing CIA officer Valerie Plame:

(1) The three Democrats have actually harmed national security. Plame was not an undercover operative as defined by the identities protection statute at the time columnist Bob Novak published her name, and David Corn of the Nation described her (former) undercover status.

(2) The action the Democrats took was deliberate. If Karl Rove is guilty of "outing Plame" by telling Novak "I heard that too," about Valerie sending her husband to Niger, his action clearly was inadvertent.

(3) The media has made a big deal of the non-offense, and uttered scarcely a peep about the serious one.

I don't think it would be prudent to bring criminal charges against the senators for their indiscretion. But they should lose their security clearances, and Rockefeller should lose his position as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee. He plainly has abused it.

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