Comments on: Damaging Secrets http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/04/23/damaging-secrets/ Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes - Marcus Valerius Martialis Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:27:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Gauis Arbo http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/04/23/damaging-secrets/comment-page-1/#comment-986 Gauis Arbo Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:02:52 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/04/23/damaging-secrets/#comment-986 Bull, Tony - and you know it. She had channels to use and went to the Post instead of, not after . If she had exhausted the legal methods <b>then</b> gonr to the press I might be sympathetic. She didn't, by every account I have seen so far - including the Post's. You're trying to excuse this and there isn't an excuse. Bull, Tony – and you know it. She had channels to use and went to the Post instead of, not after . If she had exhausted the legal methods then gonr to the press I might be sympathetic. She didn’t, by every account I have seen so far – including the Post’s.

You’re trying to excuse this and there isn’t an excuse.

]]> By: Tony Litwinko http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/04/23/damaging-secrets/comment-page-1/#comment-985 Tony Litwinko Sun, 23 Apr 2006 23:44:30 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/04/23/damaging-secrets/#comment-985 If you want to be objective about "damage," what about the damage to our duties (not to mention reputation) as a law-abiding nation? A CIA officer also has a duty to uphold the Constitution (and the signed international treaties that are part of our laws). This, conceivably, might have taken precedence for McCarthy. Why would a good career officer put herself at risk otherwise? She has been playing the career game for a while. What could have led her to leak unless--just as a logical possibility--she thought that going to her superior, to her inspector general, or to the House or Senate Intelligence Committees would have been fruitless. (I can see Pat Roberts leaping at the chance to conduct an investigation into rendition, can't you?) As you point out about the liberal side, it's a bit more complicated. Or perhaps you don't see duty as going beyond being a "good" soldier, especially in a now highly politicized intelligence agency? If you want to be objective about “damage,” what about the damage to our duties (not to mention reputation) as a law-abiding nation? A CIA officer also has a duty to uphold the Constitution (and the signed international treaties that are part of our laws). This, conceivably, might have taken precedence for McCarthy. Why would a good career officer put herself at risk otherwise? She has been playing the career game for a while. What could have led her to leak unless–just as a logical possibility–she thought that going to her superior, to her inspector general, or to the House or Senate Intelligence Committees would have been fruitless. (I can see Pat Roberts leaping at the chance to conduct an investigation into rendition, can’t you?) As you point out about the liberal side, it’s a bit more complicated.

Or perhaps you don’t see duty as going beyond being a “good” soldier, especially in a now highly politicized intelligence agency?

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