Rathergate Redux

[Laelth]

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/politics/13519250.htm

The latest story on the AP wire is enough to make anyone with a conscience sick.

Taking a favorite page out of the Republican playbook, the executive branch is now using the power of the Attorney General's office to punish the people who leaked information related to Bush's illegal spying operation on the American people. Once again, the powers that be are attempting to distract attention away from their own illegal activities with a massive "shoot the messenger" campaign, one funded, of course, by the tax dollars of the people of the United States. The question, according to the White House, is not whether Bush acted improperly, but whether those who reported Bush's crimes acted improperly.

Just ask Dan Rather how effective this evil strategy can be. Remember when CBS had the courage to report on Shrub's going AWOL from his cushy Air National Guard position during Vietnam? The Republican backlash morphed that investigation into yet another national seminar on journalistic ethics. It was nothing more than a distraction campaign, and it worked. National attention was diverted away from the question of whether Bush was a cowardly, lazy child of privilege into whether Dan Rather had properly verified his sources.

What rubs me wrong in the current case is that I'm paying for this smear through my tax dollars. The Attorney General's office is supposed to protect us all, and I'm not that scared of journalists. The real criminals (including this administration) will avoid investigation while those acting in our best interests (the leakers) get the full boot of the criminal law. Few things are quite as chafing as seeing a coward use America's money to hurt America ... just to save his own hide and just because he can.

venting in utter disgust ... :puke:

-Laelth

[pretzel4gore]

1. cheap bullies rule?

if that's so, then GOOD! i look forward to when they start shedding the blood of the cattle (sheeple) :sarcasm:
(bush is terrified, he's doomed and he knows it....he and his 'conga line of sukkholes' must press on ahead, they cannot go back, no way, no how, never! it's life or death for the grasping fools and they can only pretend they got the crunchers hahaha)....The AP don't scare ME with this nazipooh crap....

[kentuck]

2. Agree...

They're pulling the same trick they did with Rather...so as not to discuss the real issue.

[Malva Zebrina]

3. not only a distraction but also a veiled threat

there must be more than a few more out there with a conscience than those who blew the whistle to the NYT. What Bush says to them, with this DOJ so called investigation is "Don't open your mouth against me or this will happen to you" Hiring lawyers, paying the costs of defending yourself and etc will cost any whistleblower probably tens of thousands of dollars. Bush can claim anything to be classified information.

Wonder who will be featured on the Sunday talk pundit useless programs. Condi? Cheney? Rumsfeld? Powell? all will have gotten the talking point--"leakers" are dangerous to the homeland and should be prosecuted for their "shameful" treasons. No questions of any import asked, naturally, by the host.