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Ken Fortenberry · April 25th, 2006, 03:20 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly

wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:

Today's story in the paper says that she wasn't fired for
leaking the prisons story, in fact she couldn't have known
about them, but for failing to report some contacts with
reporters.

Well, if that's the story in "the paper," then that must be the facts...

I share your cynicism, inasmuch as today's story contradicts
yesterday's story in the same paper (_The Washington Post_ ).

wrote:
... There is simply no defense for
violating oaths.
There is no legal defense, but sometimes morality, honor and
patriotism trump mere legalities.

No, in this case, they are 4 separate and unrelated things. If
anything, honor and patriotism suggest that the oath should be observed,
and morality, being subjective, is not material to the observance of
that oath.

We'll have to agree to disagree, in my world morality and
responsibility are always material and in my opinion leaking
the existence of torture prisons is more honorable and patriotic
than keeping them a secret because of an oath.

--
Ken Fortenberry