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Max Boot makes this amazing observation:
Plame Platoon' is AWOL on new leaks
Highly classified programs have been revealed, which could provide real aid to our enemies. So where's all that outrage now?IT SEEMS like only yesterday that every high-minded politician, pundit and professional activist was in high dudgeon about the threat posed to national security by the revelation that Valerie Plame was a spook. For daring to reveal a CIA operative's name - in wartime, no less! - they wanted someone frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs, preferably headed for the gallows.
Since then there have been some considerably more serious security breaches. Major media organs have broken news about secret prisons run by the CIA, the interrogation techniques employed therein, and the use of "renditions" to capture suspects, right down to the tail numbers of covert CIA aircraft. They have also reported on a secret National Security Agency program to monitor calls and e-mails from people in the U.S. to suspected terrorists abroad, and about the Pentagon's Counterintelligence Field Activity designed to protect military bases worldwide.
Most of these are highly classified programs whose revelation could provide real aid to our enemies - far more aid than revealing the name of a CIA officer who worked more or less openly at Langley, Va. We don't know what damage the latest leaks may have done, but we do know that past leaks about U.S. successes in tracking cellphones led Al Qaeda leaders to shun those devices.
So I eagerly await the righteous indignation from the Plame Platoon about the spilling of secrets in wartime and its impassioned calls for an independent counsel to prosecute the leakers. And wait ... And wait ...
I suspect it'll be a long wait because the rule of thumb seems to be that although it's treasonous for pro-Bush partisans to spill secrets that might embarrass an administration critic, it's a public service for anti-Bush partisans to spill secrets that might embarrass the administration. The determination of which secrets are OK to reveal is, of course, to be made not by officials charged with protecting our nation but by journalists charged with selling newspapers.
(via Instapundit).
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The leaks began when Plame started to complain. They tapered off after she admitted who she was in 'Vanity Fair' to have some people in Iraq and Spain outed-her goal with the other memos and leaks.
The escalation in CIA probes began after Congress ordered DOJ and the Pentagon to report to the Director of CIA all activities involving humans globally-creating a conflict of interest when investigating CIA and, espceially 'bad' agetns at CIA. The prision leak occured after Plame was clear and meant to explain to other countries that Plame is covered and that she cannot really be investigated by DOJ and neither can the 'CIA prisons.' The secret CIA courts and NSA monitoring are old news and the secret court was all over the news when it was put back into service, again.
War time is the only time a CIA Operations Officer can kill, legally, and that is an excuse that ended when we switched over to the provisional authority in Iraq, so the outings were not 'legal.'
Cellphones and satellite voice and word recognition have been in the movies for ten years now and the CSM code was broken by a foreign power the day after it was put into service-this may be where things are 'sensitive.' So, NSA has alot of linguists...........