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"Hack" Wilson keeps talking
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Originally posted by Gattigap
Yes. He's a bad, bad man. And should be punished. And was. Though not stringently enough in the eyes of some, even in the absence of dead bodies.
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The purpose of security classification is to prevent the wrong people from learning secrets. In Berger's case, there is absolutely no reason to think that the wrong people learned government secrets, or that he intended that this happen. He was reckless, and stupid. In the case of Valerie Plame, someone --- maybe Rove -- intended that many people learn a government secret, and they did. That is not just reckless. Especially when the country is at war. Whoever outed her risked the national security to score political points.
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“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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