The Press vs. The Gubmint!

Ken Fortenberry wrote in
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Scott Seidman wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
Sometimes, such as in this case, the honorable thing to do
is to violate your oath. The trouble with a lot of military
types is they get real confused about things like honor and
responsibility, preferring instead to wrap themselves in oaths
and flags and turn a blind eye to torture, war crimes and murder.

Mary O. McCarthy is a hero, she violated her oath and thank God
she did. She realized that she has a higher responsibility to
truth and humanity than to a CIA oath. We should have more like
her. She'll be charged with a crime, and rightly so, but if I
were on her jury she'd never be found guilty.

While I regard her as a hero, Ken, I wish one of these heros would
take away this "leak" ammunition and become a whistleblower under the
legal mechanisms that exist.

In my understanding, a CIA whistleblower can take legally take
concerns to the Senate Intelligence committee, at least as a first
step. Then, if a committee member wants to release info to the
press....

That's probably exactly what happened, Scott. According to the
story today Mary O. McCarthy couldn't have leaked the prisons
story because she didn't know about them. She was fired for
allegedly failing to report some contacts with the press including
with the guy who wrote the prisons story. So she's no hero, just a
sloppy record keeper, or that's what they're saying today at any
rate.


Wow! Things certainly are getting interesting.

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Scott
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