You see, to the current crop of Republican leaders, like Senator Frist and Rep. Denny Hastert, leaks that amount to treason during wartime are a good thing, so long as you're a Republican committing the treason by putting our soldiers, our spies, and our families' lives at risk.
But to GOP leaders like Frist and Hastert, leaks are bad things when they actually expose the fact that the US may be violating the Geneva Conventions and committing war crimes by running torture camps in former Soviet prisons (gulags?) in Eastern Europe. Yes, the US acting like a Soviet dictatorship in terms of how we treat other human beings, exposing that fact is a bad thing to the current extreme crop of Republicans running the party. But the US coddling traitors during war time, that's a good thing.
And these thugs call themselves Republicans, let alone Americans?
From E&P:
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and House Speaker Dennis Hastert on Tuesday called for a congressional investigation into who told Washington Post reporter Dana Priest about previously undisclosed CIA interrogation centers.Did you catch that First and Hastert just provided the exact rationale for why traitors are traditionally shot during war time.
On Nov. 2, Priest's report on the so-called "black sites" -- which she describes as a "covert prison system set up by the CIA nearly four years ago" to interrogate some of the most important al Qaeda captives -- drew worldwide interest and focused attention on the Bush administration's anti-terror strategy.
"If accurate, such an egregious disclosure could have long-term and far-reaching damaging and dangerous consequences, and will imperil our efforts to protect the American people and our homeland from terrorist attacks," Frist and Hastert said in a letter to Senate and House intelligence committee chairmen .
Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, told E&P this afternoon that she believes the Post would not "knuckle under" to any subpoenas if such an investigation were convened.
"If accurate, such an egregious disclosure could have long-term and far-reaching damaging and dangerous consequences, and will imperil our efforts to protect the American people and our homeland from terrorist attacks," Frist and Hastert said in a letter to Senate and House intelligence committee chairmen.Yet they have the nerve to defend Karl Rove and Scooter Libby whose leaks at the very least border on treason, and they have no desire whatsoever to investigate that disclosure of information.
This is what happens when one party controls the entire government for too long. The GOP has the White House, both houses of Congress, and the Supreme Court (7 of 9 justices are Republican appointees), and they've had them for years. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and fair-minded Republicans are now watching their party become more and more beholdened to the Terri Schiavo wing of the party; a corrupt minority of extremists who don't represent traditional Republican values, let alone American values.
It's a sad day when the Republican Senate leader and the Republican House leader don't care that our country is now acting as criminal, as brutal, and as immoral as the Soviet Union and other petty dictatorships we fought so many wars to defeat. They don't care about the crime, they only care that someone found out.
The GOP: Soft on treason, wrong for America.
