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[IP] Senator? Traitors and treason



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From: John Adams <jadams01@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: May 14, 2006 6:13:27 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: For IP? Traitors and treason


From: Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx
Date: May 14, 2006 5:36:04 PM EDT


From: Joe Pistritto <jcp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: May 14, 2006 4:22:32 PM EDT



In this case, the word you are looking for isn't "whistleblower", but
rather "traitor".


Is he a traitor for exposing potentially traitorous conduct, or
was he a patriot?

Compare and contrast with those 2 pesky Washington reporters who got
a Pulitzer for talking to that guy nicknamed "Deep Throat"....  Were
they traitors or not?
Frank Rich had some strong words on strong words today in the Times, reaching an unexpected yet not inconsistent conclusion: 

Will the Real Traitors Please Stand Up?
When America panics, it goes hunting for scapegoats. But from Salem onward, we’ve more often than not ended up pillorying the innocent. Abe Rosenthal, the legendary Times editor who died last week, and his publisher, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, were denounced as treasonous in 1971 when they defied the Nixon administration to publish the Pentagon Papers, the secret government history of the Vietnam War. Today we know who the real traitors were: the officials who squandered American blood and treasure on an ill-considered war and then tried to cover up their lies and mistakes. It was precisely those lies and mistakes, of course, that were laid bare by the thousands of pages of classified Pentagon documents leaked to both The Times and The Washington Post.
This history is predictably repeating itself now that the public has turned on the war in Iraq. The administration’s die-hard defenders are desperate to deflect blame for the fiasco, and, guess what, the traitors once again are The Times and The Post. This time the newspapers committed the crime of exposing warrantless spying on Americans by the National Security Agency (The Times) and the C.I.A.’s secret “black site” Eastern European prisons (The Post). Aping the Nixon template, the current White House tried to stop both papers from publishing and when that failed impugned their patriotism...
If Democrats — and, for that matter, Republicans — let a president with a Nixonesque approval rating install yet another second-rate sycophant at yet another security agency, even one as diminished as the C.I.A., someone should charge those senators with treason, too. 

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