One of the interesting things about our media is that they always love to expose the weaknesses and foibles of our government. They even seem to take particular joy in anything related to national security. Most of those who sit in editor chairs among our media know national defense as an abstract concept that the Republicans use to demagogue their way into power. Their thoughts about what it would take to just have everyone get along lean more to ice cream socials with folks who just don't understand us, than serious concerns. I can just imagine them sitting around nodding sagely as they read this stunningly dense, self-serving pile of rationalization. The concept is that the existence of WikiLeaks might have stopped 9/11. Seriously, that is it. One of the authors is the FBI agent, Colleen Rowley, who caught some info on Moussaoui that should have gone to the CIA so they could work on him together. The info couldn't go because of the idiotic wall 9/11 Commissioner Jamie Gorelick built between the agencies. There are a million fixes for this, here is the most ridiculous of them all. There were a lot of us in the run-up to 9/11 who had seen warning signs that something devastating might be in the planning stages. But we worked for ossified bureaucracies incapable of acting quickly and decisively. Lately, the two of us have been wondering how things might have been different if there had been a quick, confidential way to get information out... WikiLeaks might have provided a pressure valve for those agents who were terribly worried about what might happen and frustrated by their superiors' seeming indifference. They were indeed stuck in a perplexing, no-win ethical dilemma as time ticked away. Their bosses issued continual warnings against "talking to the media" and frowned on whistle-blowing, yet the agents felt a strong need to protect the public... WikiLeaks might have provided a pressure valve for those agents who were terribly worried about what might happen and frustrated by their superiors' seeming indifference. They were indeed stuck in a perplexing, no-win ethical dilemma as time ticked away. Their bosses issued continual warnings against "talking to the media" and frowned on whistle-blowing, yet the agents felt a strong need to protect the public. So rather than take the information to the FBI's Inspector General, or if you really believed it was that important sending it to the CIA directly, you think the answer would be to steal classified information and give it to an anarchist. anti-American Bandito of Ass who spends his spare time molesting Swedish women. Dam u Dum. There is no question that our policies about investigating and fighting terrorism were a soup sandwich prior to 9/11. They have gotten marginally better, but we are still tied as our own worst enemy. But feeding ammo to a group that is designed to take us down, is so blisteringly, bone-headed I am impressed.
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Oct 19 2010, 12:35 AM
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