The Press vs. The Gubmint!

"Allen" wrote in message
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In article , "riverman" wrote:

Saw this today:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060422/...urity_cia_dc_6

My question: how can the same country/people/nation award a journalist
the
Pulitzer Prize for exposing a story, and at the same time file charges
against the CIA operative who exposed it? Aren't we on the same side
here?
Either the journalist recieved a prize for doing something wrong, or the
operative is getting charged for doing something right. There seem to be
two
rules at play here, and no one seems to mind.

--riverman

The Pulitzers are not decided by the country/people/nation. They are
decided by a committee. The people charging her are doing so because she
took an oath not to divulge classified information and then allegedly
did so. The oath is not optional. If you do not like the oath and the
lifelong commitment it entails you are in the wrong business and should
leave. If this woman is found guilty she will be subject to penalties
that she was made fully aware of when she signed the oath. She went into
it with her eyes open and now there's a clear message for the rest of us
that raised our right hands.

Allen

Some people are like slinky's, useless but you can't help but smile when
they fall down the stairs.

Does that oath you swear trump the Constitution and the Bill of Rights?
Where in the US Code does the Federal Government get the authority to
subcontract torture to foreign countries? Where in the oath you swear are US
government employees authorized to kidnap people, and contractors authorized
to steal and torture?

Id like you to inform me on this. Because . . .

If it is true that you believe these things are in conformance with the
Constitution of the United States of America, I want to doubly dedicate
myself that people like you are dismissed ASAP from collecting a check at
the public tit and are rendered unable to commit or assist in the commission
of any more crimes in the name of the people of the United States.

I am sick and tired of paying the mortgages of dumb**** spineless Government
clerks without the gumption to say NO when they are told to violate the
constitution, and jackass hirelings of beltway bandits from bloodsucking
outfits like MITRE talking nonsense. All such assholes should note that
their time is short and that WallMart is hiring.

Dave