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To: TimF who wrote (266340)	12/28/2005 8:23:37 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1574854

Michelle Malkin printed this email from a reader: Reader S.M. e-mails: I'm certain you get numerous e-mails such as this one following any item you blog about regarding leaking classified information. My fiancee and I both work in the defense industry and hold security clearances of varying degrees. What strikes us both, and anyone else in our sphere of professional aquaintances, is the seeming double standard in place where the protection of classified information is concerned. While it seems that senior managers (and I use "manager" as a term of derision) and policymakers are cozy enough with the oversight comittees and agencies that they feel at liberty to divulge carefully selected pieces of classified information whenever it suits their purpose, I KNOW that anyone at my level would be swiftly and thoroughly wrung out following anything but the most benign security violation. For example, if I should happen to accidentally leave my cellphone in my briefcase and bring it into a SCIF or other classified area, I would be guaranteed a trip to the security office to explain the breech of policy, sign a counseling statement and perhaps be re-briefed on local security policy. Two or more such violations would likely result in a suspension of my clearance or an outright revocation of such. This would kill me professionally and financially. Additionally, if I were to deliberately place a phone call to the editor of a national media outlet to discuss classified information, or willfully stuff classified documents down my trousers, I would be standing before the security officer as the first step towards prosecution under the laws that I am subject to in regards to my job. This does not seem to be the case for those at higher levels of "management" than mine. ...This double-standard cannot stand and I worry that the ongoing leaks that do not result in any attempt to prosecute the guilty parties may set a dangerous precedent in the future. This topic needs to have the spotlight thrown on it for open examination by people of all political stripes, and the electorate of this country needs to know that national security, both in policy and in practice, is a joke. michellemalkin.com Message 22005412

To: TimF who wrote (266340)	12/28/2005 8:42:41 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574854

"Did they really do that?" I don't know about Durbin, but Kerry said that US troops shouldn't be conducting midnight raids on civilians, kicking down doors and terrorizing women and children. It is verifiable that our troops do go on such raids. If you want to view that statement as calling our troops terrorists, well, you use a different dictionary than I do. If our troops, in fact, didn't conduct such raids, then you definitely could claim that he was trying to cast them as Nazis.

To: TimF who wrote (266340)	12/29/2005 6:45:05 AM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574854

kerry accusing our troops of terrorising Iraqi women and children: about as funny as kerry advocating impeaching Bush..... cbsnews.com And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children durbin calling our troops Nazis: washingtonpost.com "If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control," he said, "you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime -- Pol Pot or others -- that had no concern for human beings." kerry