Worst instincts of the enforcers - Marie Cocco

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Worst instincts of the enforcers
By Marie Cocco
Columnist
4/15/05
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WASHINGTON - The investigation into the outing of a CIA operative is losing steam just as the controversy over John R. Bolton's nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is heating up.

The two episodes share the distinction of representing the worst instincts of the enforcers who run the Bush administration as if it were a Cosa Nostra clan.

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This was a breach of national security as well as common decency and possibly a felony, as well. The long investigation into the leak by a Justice Department special prosecutor was effectively concluded last October - before the November election - according to court papers filed in a continuing dispute over whether two journalists still must be forced to testify. It is unclear whether there will be an indictment in the case, or a public report about who engineered the retribution, and why.

The president could himself unravel the mystery. Since the "senior administration officials" who spoke to journalists work for his own administration, President Bush could long ago have demanded their resignations. He hasn't. Bush gives the impression that it is perfectly fine to compromise the name of a national security asset if it serves the larger purpose of discrediting dissenters.


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Some excellent analysis in the article.