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Releasing classified information is a crime (3.00 / 1)

A big crime. One that usually deserves jail time. The suggestion that Rockefeller should just have gone ahead and blown the whistle is mystifying. Either you have respect for the law or you don't. Either impeaching a President for perjury on material that was ruled irrelevant in a case that was ruled without merit is important or it is vindictive partisan crap. To vindicate a Republican President because a Democratic Senator refused to commit a felony and disclose classified information in time of war while saying with a straight face that Clintonian misdemeanor perjury justifies impeachment is not only to put logic and law on its head, its to put that head in a toilet and give it a swirly.

Did the outing of Valerie Plame actually harm the National Security of the United States? Maybe yes, maybe no. But Karl Rove and Scooter Libby were not in a position that they could judge that fact, or legally given the power to declassify it. Which is why we want them in jail.

This retroactive "If Rockefeller was serious he should have committed treason" argument is nonsense from people who are not thinking. Bush and Republicans may believe they get to just pick and choose which laws they want to follow, chiding Democrats for not going along with that is sociopathological.

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by Bruce Webb on Sat Dec 24, 2005 at 12:39:25 PM EST


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