Torture worse than torture disclosure

By Frank Moraes 

Does irony still exist in the United States? I doubt it. Former CIA officer John Kiriakou has been given two and a half years for leaking classified information. In the end, all of his charges were reduced to giving the name of one covert operative to a reporter. (Why does that sound familiar?) But in reality, Kiriakou has been prosecuted for leaking the information that the CIA was engaged in torture.

Let's see now, this prosecution follows how many indictments of people for engaging in torture? Oh, that's right: none! Because it is totally okay in the United States to torture anyone we claim is an "evil doer" but it is treasonous to tell anyone we are doing it. Hell, with all our military capacity, we don't have to be good, we can just enforce the appearance of good.

To top matters off, it's always good to know that we have a whole bunch of evil idiotic assholes passing judgement on all of us. District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema was none too happy with the sentence. She thought it was way too light. And if that wasn't enough to establish her evil-stupid credentials, she said, "This is not a case of a whistleblower. This is a case of a man who betrayed a solemn trust."[1] Yeah, like trashing the Constitution and allowing free reign of the surveillance state.

Fuck the United States of America! Long may the elites rape it! 
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[1] Note that "man who betrayed a solemn trust" is more or less the definition of a whistleblower as seen from the inside.

(Cross-posted at Frankly Curious.)