already Ms. McCarthy is being turned into another folk hero, worthy of a story and song by Pete Seeger--One Ton of Felons--a Woodie Guthrie follower in the footsteps of Daniel Ellsberg with a banjo, a whistleblower on a set of bag pipes, someone who told the truth, which sets her apart from a real criminal. John Kerry pinch hit for her last Sunday. Others will soon. and this talk will sanctify her as special until she is arrested and convicted.
But it's no longer easy being a supporter of President Bush. Not as a retired cop.
Look, I'm a great believer in compassionate conservatism--up to a point, though the wildly inflationary budget end of things is growing pretty disconcerting--but I had no idea that it would entail a total abrogation of the criminal prosecution of so many individuals.
The walls began to crack when absolutely nothing was done to Sandy Berger, a former National Security advisor to Bill Clinton, who damn well knew better than to steal classified documents by secreting them in his socks and underwear, claiming he forgot all about them as his defense, and took a walk for his pains. I mean a $10,000 fine is a skip to my Lou for these rarified hep-cats.
Then we all ran into the great illegal alien fraud of a sham of a hoax of a prosecution for being here illegally.
Not 35 years ago, as a rookie cop, all I had to do with a fellow without a green card was to arrest him, take him or her to the lock-up, where the jailer would call INS, and be done with it--one person at a time, in Santa Monica, California, by obeying the laws on the books in the United States of america.
Now, in the United States, from the leaders of the Senate on down, we only enforce those laws we like, and openly encourage millions of mutinous fugitives, who often steal our identities as a matter of course, to disobey those strictures they find problematic or troublesome.
according to a recent article in National Review, andrew C. McCarthy mentions his concern that Mary McCarthy, who ratted out a secret program to a newspaper, might not be prosecuted at all for her nefarious activities.
During the Clinton years, Sandy Berger, Mary McCarthy, Richard Clarke and John Kerry's muy sympatico, Rand Beers, all served in national intelligence together.
Bush never cleaned out the dead wood, the hidden agents and the scoundrels left over from the Clinton administration.
Sure, I'll bet there were some decent hard working folk in the CIa, the State Department and at the Pentagon, but every last one of the holdovers should have been fired, pending a serious go at vetting, with the same lie detector tests which were belatedly administered to Ms. McCarthy, given up front to insure their reappointment.
It's called the spoils system.
Compassion is one thing, the survival of the nation is another.
During the 2004 presidential campaign, John Kerry often bragged that he didn't need to attend the security briefings. Was it because of Mr. Beer's relationship with Ms. McCarthy and others still involved in US intelligence, as Mr Limbaugh has speculated?
Yes, sure there would have been howl from the Democrats for a mass firing like the one Mr. Clinton performed at Justice, but would this additional baying from continually barking hounds been any greater than that endured by america already?
With Ms. McCarthy's hurried departure--and with the damaging debacles of Sandy Berger, Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame already on the books--it becomes clear that we will routinely face individuals who value persona over country, injury over oath, and national damage over honor.
Will George Bush and alberto Gonzales finally decide that exposed secrets and their damaging fallout are worth prosecution? Or will they again holster their cold smoke wagons, pull their Stetsons over their eyes, pull their jackets over the badges on their vests and slink off, as they did with Sandy Burglar, and leave the street to the hoodlums?
Why is the administration so reluctant? Mr Bush wasted no time going after the murderers of 9/11. Why does he balk at pursuing the clacking spineless caitiffs and the base poltroons who sneak around in the darkness at home and Democrats who defend them?
Criminals of every stripe are emboldened by a lack of prosecution and will again reach out to expose another piece of america's secret war against those who would destroy us, whether by leaks, the theft of documents or spying for an enemy.
If there is a shadow government working against the survival of our nation, while we fight a world wide war on terror, and the current administration chooses not to discover its identity, fails to eliminate its membership and then neglects to prosecute its lawbreakers, they have also failed to protect the Constitution and our fighting soldiers.
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