Well, see, Dr. Deth, if I were to come along and say Louie “Big Lips” Delmonica whacked Sammy “The Naked Mole Rat” Lafista, and I don’t know neither of dem guys from nuttin’, the cops are gonna raise their eyebrows at me and ask me hows come I know dis, see? But if Jimmy “the Yak” Bamafligia were to say “Big Lips iced Sammy” they’d perk right up, because Jimmy is a member of Louie’s gang, see, and is in a position to know things, y’know? Ya see how that works?
C’mon, John. You know damn well that every conservative in America would have been screaming “TREASON!” at the tops of their heads if Clinton had done anything RESEMBLING the Plame affair.
furthermore, what the fuck do you think happened to Valerie Plame’s contacts when she was exposed as a CiA covert op? You think that they weren’t “handed over to America’s enemies” by that action? You are either a Pollyana or totally ignorant if you think otherwise.
And what if “the Yak” was lookin’ fer a way ta make a dime. He an’ his big shot advisers got together in a huddle and after a while they called a meetin’ with the scribblers from the dailies and the cops, who’d been dyin’ ta nail “Big Lips” fer years. And the Yak stood in the centre of a circle of pricked up ears an’ said:
“Big Lips? Ya wanna know sumpin about Big Lips? Well I’ll tell ya sumpin’. Ya know how when Lafista got nailed last year? Well,” he said with a wink to his hoods ta one side, “Big Lips was involved, see.”
The room dissolved into a hubbub as the coppers went wild.
“Whaddaya mean, “involved”, Yak?”
“Well, officer, I’ll tell ya. It’s all in my book. Only 85 cents, at all good booksellers”.
You people are suckers.
Well, ya got a point dere, but see … this guy Big Lips has been suspiciously involved in all sorts of things … Nigerian yellowcake scam here, election rigging there, kidnapping and torturing the odd citizen and such … he’s an active kinda guy, y’know? So when one o’ Big Lips’ boys blows the whistle on ‘em, and the cops don’t get REAL innarested, ya just gotta wonder. Ya just got wonder whose pocket the cops are in, y’know? Dey need to be checkin’ this stuff out, ‘cause it might be on the up an’ up, y’know?
You’re probably right, and they’d be just as wrong as the poster here who said this action is treason. Of course we still don’t have any evidence that Bush was involved in the leak. I’ve never seen one shred of evidence of that. So, you’re leaping by saying he was involved, and you’re playing tu quoque with bringing up what someone else might do.
Sorry, but the only ignorance here is from people who don’t know what treason is. Leaking info to a journalist isn’t treason. Publishing the info isn’t treason, either. Giving it, secretly, to one of our enemies is treason. “Secretly” is key, here, just as “enemy” is. If you’ve got evidence to the contrary, bring it. I’d like to see if anyone has ever even been charged with treason (much less convicted) for an action similar to what happened here. Christ, no one was even charged with leaking classified info.