Monday, November 21, 2005

 

Lashing Out

Paul Craig Roberts reports on the Blair government's attempt to silence leakers by charging them with violating the Official Secrets Act.
In England it is not Blair who is on trial for participating in what he knew was a wrongful act that has resulted in thousands of deaths.
It is not the crimes committed in secret that get punished. The people who are punished are the ones who leak memos that reveal wrongdoing has occurred.


This seems to me to be not coincidentally parallel to the recent Bush administration attacks on those who accuse the administration of tweaking or fabricating the intelligence. When Dan Bartlett says:>
Even during times of war we should have disagreement; we should debate and argue. But one thing we shouldn't do is have a debate based on false charges.

The type of political rhetoric we're hearing today does send the wrong signal to our troops; it does send the wrong signal to our enemies.
he is trying to preclude the possibility that administration officials will be held responsible for crimes by disallowing making the charge of crimes. Bartlett is really a piece of work.

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