Chicago Sun Times columnist, Robert Novak, said:
"Wilson never worked for the CIa, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate the Italian report."
Immediately, the Democrat leadership in Washington went bonkers, and demanded an investigation to discover which administration officials leaked this classified information.
Washington Post writer, Dana Priest, said:
"The CIa has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement."
Why has the Democrat leadership in Washington not gone bonkers over this leak, and demanded an investigation to discover which U.S. and foreign officials leaked this classified information?
Republican leadership in both the House and Senate have called for an investigation. But Senate Democrat leader, Harry Reid, says that their request is "just for show."
after two years of investigation, the special prosecutor has determined that the publication of Valerie Plame’s name did not violate any law. The indictment of Scooter Libby alleges no such crime, but simply lying to a grand jury - a crime with which Democrats are intimately familiar.
The leak of classified detention sites is not only a crime, but seriously jeopardizes the United States’ ability to prosecute the war on terror. Democrats should be joining Republicans in demanding an investigation into the source of the leak.
Priest’s article continually uses the phrase "...according to several former and current U.S. government and intelligence officials," to justify details of the story. Who are these officials, and why are they revealing this information? More importantly, how much more damaging is the release of this information, than the publication of the name of a woman who was already known around Washington to be an employee of the CIa?
The only reason to leak this information is to further embarrass the Bush administration, in hopes of feeding the anti-Bush, anti-war frenzy.
The damage this leak has caused is immeasurable. Terrorists now know at least some of the governments to target to exact revenge. Future agreements between the U.S. and these governments have been seriously jeopardized. The safety of U.S. personnel tasked with guarding and interrogating these prisoners has been jeopardized. Public focus has again been shifted from the hideous crimes of the prisoners, to the implied mistreatment of prisoners who are held outside the review of international organizations such as amnesty International.
While the Democrat leadership has nothing to say about the criminal leak of this information, they are quick to use the story to criticize the Bush administration’s policy. Former President, Jimmy Carter said:
"I never even considered the fact that our country would be debating whether or not we could continue to torture prisoners around the world in secret prisons."
Carter’s thoughtless assumption that these detainees are tortured is disgusting.
The allegations of torture by the U.S., when they have arisen, have drawn severe criticism from Democrats and from international anti-war organizations. These same critics, however, are strangely quiet, about genuine torture inflicted by the terrorists on americans, and others. None of the highly-publicized activity at abu Ghraib or Guantanamo Bay compares to the enemy’s televised beheading of the innocent people they capture.
Terrorists detained by the U.S. complain of being kept too cold, or too hot, or forced to listen to western music, or that their U.S.-supplied Koran is not handled properly. Torture indeed!
People kidnaped by the terrorists are beheaded, executed and dumped along the roadside, paraded on television, killed and hung from bridges - and worse. These events fail to excite the anti-Bush crowd nearly as much as the discovery of secret CIa detention sites.
The U.S. must do whatever it takes to defeat these terrorists. They declared war on the U.S. well before George Bush was elected, and they will continue to wage their war on the U.S. well after George Bush has returned to Texas - even if a Democrat is elected to the White House.
The terrorists’ jihad against the United States is not a response to George Bush, despite suggestions to the contrary by leading Democrats. The terrorists’ jihad will not be called off if the Democrats prevail in the next elections, despite the fantasies of some Democrats.
The most eloquent politician - whether Democrat or Republican - cannot end the jihad through negotiation. Individual instigators of jihad end their terror only when killed or captured. To end the jihad for good, Muslims must discover a better way to paradise than detonating a car packed full of explosives, or by strapping a bomb to their back.
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