The Double Standard: Where's the Outrage?
WASHINGTON/POLITICS
COMMENTARY
Remember Plamegate? It doesn't seem so long ago that politicians, progressives, and the press were having spitting fits over the dire threat to national security caused by exposing Valerie Plame as a CIA operative while the country is at war.
Why, then, has the same group been deathly silent over other security breaches? What about the news of secret CIA prisons and interrorgation techniques? What about the news that the Pentagon was involved in psy-ops overseas to combat misinformation spread about the US. What about the Times breaking the story on a secret NSA program to monitor calls to suspected terrorists abroad while the country is at war? Where's the liberal outrage?
Why are these folks only concerned with only some of the security breaches and not the others?
Ya' know, there eventually comes a point when you just can no longer have it both ways.
NEWSLINE
The way things are going, with Congress refusing to reauthorize the Patriot Act and banning "degrading" interrogation methods, we may soon find out if the civil libertarians are right. Heaven help us if they're not.
NEWSBYTE
'Plame Platoon' is AWOL on new leaks
Highly classified programs have been revealed, which could provide real aid to our enemies. So where's all that outrage now?
(latimes.com) IT SEEMS like only yesterday that every high-minded politician, pundit and professional activist was in high dudgeon about the threat posed to national security by the revelation that Valerie Plame was a spook. For daring to reveal a CIA operative's name -- in wartime, no less! -- they wanted someone frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs, preferably headed for the gallows.
TENSION: Divisive
GRAVITY: Status quo
Tags: politics, News, terrorism, Middle East, White House, Iraq, war, journalism, mainstream media, press, current events, Bush, Snoopgate
COMMENTARY
Remember Plamegate? It doesn't seem so long ago that politicians, progressives, and the press were having spitting fits over the dire threat to national security caused by exposing Valerie Plame as a CIA operative while the country is at war.
Why, then, has the same group been deathly silent over other security breaches? What about the news of secret CIA prisons and interrorgation techniques? What about the news that the Pentagon was involved in psy-ops overseas to combat misinformation spread about the US. What about the Times breaking the story on a secret NSA program to monitor calls to suspected terrorists abroad while the country is at war? Where's the liberal outrage?
Why are these folks only concerned with only some of the security breaches and not the others?
Ya' know, there eventually comes a point when you just can no longer have it both ways.
NEWSLINE
The way things are going, with Congress refusing to reauthorize the Patriot Act and banning "degrading" interrogation methods, we may soon find out if the civil libertarians are right. Heaven help us if they're not.
NEWSBYTE
'Plame Platoon' is AWOL on new leaks
Highly classified programs have been revealed, which could provide real aid to our enemies. So where's all that outrage now?
(latimes.com) IT SEEMS like only yesterday that every high-minded politician, pundit and professional activist was in high dudgeon about the threat posed to national security by the revelation that Valerie Plame was a spook. For daring to reveal a CIA operative's name -- in wartime, no less! -- they wanted someone frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs, preferably headed for the gallows.
TENSION: Divisive
GRAVITY: Status quo
Tags: politics, News, terrorism, Middle East, White House, Iraq, war, journalism, mainstream media, press, current events, Bush, Snoopgate
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