10.02.06
A small point on the NIE thing….
I haven’t written anything on this National Intelligence Estimate thing yet, but I will more in the coming week.
My questions here are…. why all the outrage over a small part of what was leaked by obvious partisan intelligence analysts, and no outrage over the fact that sensitive intelligence documents were leaked in the first place?! Isn’t that on some level “aid and comfort” to the enemy, which is the textbook definition of treason ?
Why no reporting on the fact that a large part of the NIE contradicts the initial reporting….. It’s the equivilent of the press reporting a NOAA report that says (and this pretty much has happened) “2006 will be the worst year for hurricanes in recorded history”- that gets headlines and weepy reporting for days. The next sentence in the report says, “But it may not be.” That is never mentioned.
And finally, why is the CIA and FBI not all over investigating all these damn leaks ?! It seems every week some (politically convenient to the Democrats) confidential report is leaked to the WaPo or the NYT, and nobody in the media seems to see that as a bad thing.
Well… nobody aside from those evil right-wing bastards at Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. Is it really any wonder the supposedly “right wing” media is kicking the crap out of the “hate America” media ?
