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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....

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To: Sully- who wrote (3613)1/19/2005 11:17:51 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Espionage By Any Other Name

LGF

Tony Blankley is appalled at the lack of reaction to the Seymour Hersh piece on US intelligence operations in Iran:

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Espionage by any other name.

Almost as appalling as the potentially lethal effect (if not, necessarily, the intent) of the Hersh article, is the quietude that greeted the damaging implications of the article’s publication.

Whether or not the article meets the technical legal requirements for violation of the Espionage Act, I have seen no articles or public comments expressing concern at the revelation of such vital military secrets of an ongoing secret military operation. Keep in mind, the Pentagon has not denied the story; it has merely said that some of the facts are inaccurate.

That is a classic Washington non-denial denial.

And this is not just any military operation. The purpose of this operation is to protect the world from a possible nuclear attack once the fanatical Iranian Islamist regime gets its hands on a nuclear bomb. They already have missiles capable of reaching London, Paris, Berlin and Tel Aviv. They are already the world’s leading terrorist-supporting state. And our military’s effort to prepare to deal with this extraordinary danger is exposed to the world — while the operation is ongoing.

But not a peep of concern can be heard. Apparently this is considered just journalistic business as usual. The Washington political class is suffering from a bad case of creeping normalcy. We are getting ever more used to ever more egregious government leaks of military secrets. What’s the big deal? Maybe I am an alarmist. Or maybe we are sleepwalking toward the abyss.

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by Charles

littlegreenfootballs.com
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