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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
As I said yesterday, the people who were leaking had to know that they were going to get canned. But what Goss et al. are way beyond responding to that.
The leaking is also what the Administration gets when it says things that aren't true. For example, Cheney tried on many occasions to link Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda when the intel folks were telling him it wasn't true. Why do you think we're not well served when public officials let the truth out? Do you think the country would be better off if Daniel Elsberg hadn't leaked the Pentagon Papers? I can understand why Administration officials don't want people to hear anything but what they're saying, but someone with your commitment to the First Amendment ought to believe that a lively and informed debate serves us all.
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Funny. John McCain doesn't think so and we all know that his word is the Gospel.
I'm not really sure how to evaluate what's going on at CIA, but my bet is that the truth is somewhere in the middle, as usual. As for being served by leaks, I think there is a different standard for an intelligence apparatus than there is for other areas of government. Of course, leaks that rebut blatant untruths are helpful, but leaks that are merely to discredit a policy one disagrees with are not.
