Posted by
Always To The Right on Friday, August 21, 2009 8:24:20 PM
The ACLU and defense attorneys for detainees at Guantanamo Bay
surveilled and took pictures of CIA agents and then showed the photos
to terrorists at Gitmo. The Department of Justice has begun an
investigation into the exposure of American agents, the Washington Post
reports, in some cases in front of their homes. It underscores once
again the stupidity of involving the civil court system in the handling
of unlawful combatants in wartime
I recall a large number of people arguing a few years ago that the unmasking of Valerie Plame amounted to treason.
I wonder if the same people making that argument about the leak of her
identity as a CIA analyst (by Colin Powell aide Richard Armitage to the
late Robert Novak) will remain consistent in this case. After all,
here we have Americans exposing field agents at their homes, and not to a journalist — but to the enemy. If Plame’s exposure was treason, then this should be a hanging offense, no?