Accountability? With these double standards?
Today's must-read of the day comes once again from the incomparable Murray Waas, who asks this key question: "Is there a double standard on leak probes?"
Given what Republicans like Pat Roberts have been able to get away with, and given all the fuss about the supposed Mary McCarthy leak (which she denies), the answer is a resounding YES: "[R]ank and file intelligence professionals now have much to fear from legitimate and even inadvertent contacts with journalists, while senior executive branch officials and members of Congress are almost never held accountable when they seriously breach national security through leaks of information."
Accountability is not a word, or a concept, one would associate with this White House. Not that that's some great revelation or anything.
For more, see here. And here. And here.
Given what Republicans like Pat Roberts have been able to get away with, and given all the fuss about the supposed Mary McCarthy leak (which she denies), the answer is a resounding YES: "[R]ank and file intelligence professionals now have much to fear from legitimate and even inadvertent contacts with journalists, while senior executive branch officials and members of Congress are almost never held accountable when they seriously breach national security through leaks of information."
Accountability is not a word, or a concept, one would associate with this White House. Not that that's some great revelation or anything.
For more, see here. And here. And here.
posted by Michael J.W. Stickings at
8:18 PM
1 Comments:
It would, perhaps, be useful to consiider the rather different positions Ms. McCarthy and the President(and those who work with him) occupy.
She is an employee of a secret agency sworn to keep its secrets. He is the final executive authority with the power to declassify as he sees fit. He is the comander in chief, she is, at best a rather junior major.
Throwing the book at the women is the minimal response. Appointing a special prosecuter (who is actually good at his job as opposed to the bumbling Fitz) is the next.
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Jay Currie, at 1:29 AM
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