The deification of a traitor
Thanks to the LLL/MSM/Dem Axis and its Culture of Treason, we’re about to all bear witness to a most disgusting — but entirely predictable — circus, one that will tell us more than we may want to know about the state of our nation. We are going to witness the Axis turn traitors Mary McCarthy and Dana Priest into first martyrs, then saints.
Watching this skein of arrogance, deceit, and high treason unravel is going to be an education in how an unelected shadow government — an informal alliance between Democrats, the liberal media, and their fellow travelers in the permanent bureaucracy — has managed to insinuate itself so inextricably into the very fabric of official Washington as to be empowered, literally, to challenge the legitimate, elected government, and to thwart its policy agenda through a well-oiled machinery of leaks, innuendo, propaganda, and phony, trumped-up outrage. All these elements will combine to galvanize a Holy Army of left-wing warriors who will in short order be calling for Bush’s head once more from every MSM outlet imaginable, this time for the crime of daring to discomfit this heroic martyr to the public’s vaunted and fictitious “right to know.”
This canonization will of course be fine with otherwise anti-religious liberals, who seem to be of the opinion that since they’re so much smarter than the rest of us, they ought not to have to be deflected from their quest to keep the country on what they deem to be the “right track” by niggling, insignificant details like election results, oaths of confidentiality, the rule of law, or the Constitution itself.
And so turning this self-righteous traitor into a “hero” will be the natural next step for them. After all, what allegiance could possibly be higher or more worthy than the mystical, holy calling of Democratic Party membership? What more justified fervor exists on this earthly plane than the one that calls people to the liberal catechism? Shalt thou have any God before progressivism, socialism, the UN, and peace through appeasement? And if that’s the case, what could possibly be wrong with swapping a few vital wartime secrets with the keepers of the Holy Scripture in the liberal media? If Republican blasphemers defile the Temple of Big Government, doth not Scripture say that they shall be cast out by those most faithful and courageous of Apostles, the Divine Whistleblowers?
The trouble for these people is that even though they think their personal morality and judgment trumps the US Constitution and loyalty to their country every time, very few real Americans agree with that opinion. And the view most of America takes of a genuflecting devotion to traitors, cowardly appeasers, and puffed-up anti-American frauds is a good deal dimmer than the sunny, respectful one held by those who belong to the liberal Church Militant.
Personally, I think it’s high time the real America went a little Old Testament on these treasonous curs. They’ve usurped our government and made it into their own little playground, immune to the censure or will of the voters, and now they’re going to attempt to lie their way out of it and cover up the stench of what’s really afoot here like a cat in a sandbox. We can’t let that happen. The liberal infestation has gotten so virulent as to make it virtually impossible even to effectively wage war to eliminate serious threats to America and the free world — threats that, in an irony that would be hilarious were it not so macabre, stand in direct opposition to everything these treacherous swine claim to hold dear.
Cry to Heaven, folks: the liberal alliance has gotten caught but good this time. And the Democrats, the MSM, and the Left generally are all in the dock. Their slimy little undeclared cabal stands accused of damaging national security to advance a partisan political agenda, of putting Party before Country, and of undermining not only the war but our Constitutional system of government itself. In their boundless presumption, they’ve assumed a sort of extra-legal Divine Right of Kings for themselves, a right to circumvent our elected leaders for their own ends.
It may sound like hysterical rhetoric, but it isn’t: this is serious business, every bit as serious as Nixon’s Watergate coverup ever was. They’ve stolen our government; we can’t let them get away with it. Inability to win elections does not confer a right to an extra-legal veto over the will of the people. The WaPo, McCarthy, and everyone involved with this must be made to answer for their crimes. The shadow government needs to be exposed to the light of day. At the very least, Americans need to know just how little regard these people have for our system of government, and how willing they are to subvert it when elections don’t go their way — and how they consider themselves to be deacons of an ideological church powerful enough to be exempt from the judgment of the rest of the flock.
Update! A former spook says this:
You’ll note that many media accounts describe the leaker as an “analyst,” suggesting that she was, at best, a mid-level staffer. That was hardly the case; few analysts make the jump from a regional desk at Langley to the White House. A “National Intelligence Officer” is the equivalent of a four-star general in the military, or a cardinal in the Catholic Church. There are only a handful of NIOs in the intelligence community; they are in charge of intelligence community efforts in a particular area. As a senior officer for Warning, Ms. McCarthy was tasked, essentially, with preventing future Pearl Harbors. Observers will note that McCarthy’s tenure in that role coincided with early strikes by Islamofacists against the United States, including the first World Trade Center bombing, and the Khobar Towers attack. It could be argued that Ms. McCarthy’s performance in the warning directorate was mediocre, at best–but it clearly didn’t affect her rise in a Democratic Administration.
Equally interesting is her meteoric rise within the intelligence community. According to her bio, she joined the CIA as an analyst in 1984. Within seven years, she had rise to a Deputy NIO position, and reached full NIO status by 1994. To reach that level, she literally catapulted over dozens of more senior officers–and I’m guessing that her political connections didn’t hurt. By comparison, I know a current NIO, with a resume and academic credentials more impressive than Ms. McCarthy’s, who reached the position after more than 20 years of extraordinarily distinguished service. McCarthy’s rapid advancement speaks volumes about how the Clinton Administration did business, and sheds new light on the intelligence failures that set the stage for 9-11. We can only wonder how many other political hacks climbed the intel food chain under Clinton–and remain in place to this day.
I’ll say it again: clean out that rat’s nest. There’s no reason on God’s green earth why even one mid-to-high-level Clinton appointee should remain in place after this fiasco. Clean your house, George, or brace yourself for more nasty surprises lurking in its darker corners — surprises the nation can ill afford.
Updated update! Andrew McCarthy, posting at The Corner:
OK. Let’s leave aside that people with access to classified information take an oath not to disclose it and that there are internal procedures available for reporting concerns about government abuse — no one has to go to the media.
There is no mention by the Post — none — that Mary McCarthy is a big Kerry campaign and Democratic Party contributor.
How can the WPost justify reporting one friend’s mere impression that McCarthy is not biased and that it is very difficult even for those who know her well to understand why she would leak sensitive information, and yet not report the objective fact that — after a meteoric professional rise in intelligence circles during a Democratic administration — McCarthy, while a government official on a government salary, gave at least $7700 of her own money in a single year to Democratic political campaigns?
Given the Post’s delicate posture in this case — having been the recipient of at least one highly sensitive leak on a subject about which it chose to publish a story damaging to national security — you would think they might perceive a special obligation to play it down the middle here. But apparently not.
This morning’s story is said to have had no fewer than eight contributors — it was written by R. Jeffrey Smith and Dafna Linzer, and lists as contributors Walter Pincus, Al Kamen, Howard Kurtz and Dan Morse, and research editor Lucy Shackelford and researcher Magda Jean-Louis.
Since campaign contribution information is available on-line — you don’t even need to draft star reporters and research editors to dig it out — is it too much to suppose that at least one of these eight folks might have mentioned, at least in passing, that this purported non-ideologue of a leaker was giving lots of money to the effort to unseat the present administration?
And one of Bill’s commenters has it exactly right:
The connections that are being developed by the other blogs between McCarthy and Wilson/Plame, the Kerry campaign, Rand Beers and Berger etcetera, and the time frames (of) political donations and stolen or leaked secrets are mind boggling.
Really, if it is what it seems it may be it would be one of the biggest political scandals in US history – right up there with Watergate.
The first thing I want to know is where McCarthy got the $10k in political donations she gave the Dems in 2004. That’s right, 10 thousand clams in aggregate, including $4k to Ohio of all places. Wage earners and civil servants don’t give $10k in non-deductable political contributions. The idle rich do that.
This thing stinks to high heaven.
It sure does; the “Culture of Treason” moniker is in no way overstating the case. And after years of maniacally chasing every manufactured non-scandal they could pull out of the lower portions of their alimentary canals, the MSM response to this one is going to be not just telling, but definitive.
- Entries
Based on his past activities, I can only assume Kerry's meeting secretly with the enemy again - you know, to show his
patriotismdissent.I mean, even if the truth is that the Valerie/Plame scandal was caused by her, are we really going to learn anything?
It seems that a lot of information surfaces only later to disappear.
I.E. We still don't know where the Chemicals from the Jordanian Bomb Plot came from. It's no shocking suprise that the MSM, not once, ever gave pause as to whether these chemicals came from IRAQ.
Watergate was an idiotic political move that didn't hurt anyone but everyone connected to Nixon. This hurts people, and affects lives, as in whether or not those people still have lives. Thats much much worse than Watergate.
Jail 'em all.
"It' not the peoples' business." The old reflex whenever anything on the Clinton era folks came out. Wonder if the media will snap back into it so quickly...
McCarthy speaks out BEFORE retiring or quitting
(courageous/principled/ballsy(men don't usually speak while they have something to lose)).
McCarthy DEFENDS the constitution, instead of trashing it like her lofty bosses.
So SHE is the TRAITOR.
Gimme a BREAK.
You're a stupid, stupid, er, man.
"Speaking out" would involve standing up in public, our at least withing the govt., having your say and then abiding by the constitutionally elected authorities' decision or resigning. Not sneaking out the back door to shovel dirt, whether accurate or spoof, to another leftwing Bush hater. That's the honorable course. That's the course she swore to take when she was hired by the American people. That's the code, not to mention LAW, she broke with this slimey inside mole action. Yes, she is the traitor, and she should be prosecuted as such. Here's your break: Leaks are a two-way thing. On the terrible day another socialist is elected president, I don't want a bunch of republicans running a back-door foreign policy. Granted, it's much less likely to happen that way since republicans by and large still believe in the United States as an idea, but the temptation for payback will still be there. Is that the kind of backstabbing you want to see?
Ever hear of Julie Meyers? Nobody, but nobody beats the GOP for appointing hacks.
Wake up and smell the crap. Our government sucks. Inside, outside, right side up and upside down. It is populated with hacks, criminals, socialists and terrorists. It really doesn't matter who is in power - they are all powerless to strip them out. The good people are too power/class driven to keep the country's interests first. The rest? They speak well for themselves.
Get it?
It isn't whether it's a crony appointment or not, heck, a crony appointment may turn out bad, indifferent, or good. That is irrelevant. What is irrelevant is that she knew what avenues were open to complain about possible illegalities, and The Washington Post isn't one of them.
Pull your head out of your own ass so you can tell what is crap and isn't, buddy.
Shouldn't comment after spending an afternoon watching hockey.
looks like we got us another traitor:
...pretty soon the whole damn country is either gonna be in jail or executed!
You first buddy.
That's pretty convincing, pasting from well-known centrist Marshall, who's summarizing a report from well-known paragon of journalistic accuracy cBS news, of an interview with another has-been govt. guy with an axe to grind.
I'm convinced.
But what she cannot do is give away America's fortunes and donate our secrets to The Permanent Campaign to Get George W. Bush.
Stop the Black-Ops!
If I could say one thing to Pinch & Co., it would be this:
"You have the right to remain silent..."
Do remember that the American War of Independence was to a certain extent a second-part of the English Civil War. It split friends, families and whole towns as badly as the English Civil and later the American Civil War. Only about a 1/3 of the colonies were in favour of the war.
There were in fact riots on the streets of London against the war (the Cabinet was split too). It was seen as wrong that Briton were fighting Britons. Benedict Arnold betrayed his fellows but was not technically a traitor as he was in fact doing right by his King.
McCarthy is a criminal - that is clear. She was appointed by a hack, as a hack. She was able to have access to programs that otherwise she would have been no closer to than the average 7-11 clerk because of that. Because of that, she was able to do a great deal of damage to us and our friends. Friends who may or not help us in future ops. Ops that help us rid the world of killers. Illegalities? Tell that to the guy who is going to cut off your head on a video for worldwide consumption. He will be very interested in "legalities."
My head out of my ass?
Yeah, extract your head from your ass and focus on the one person who is the treacherous leaker.
In non-paranoid terms, the Republicans control every component of the federal government, have screwed up royally, and need a boogeyman to blame their failures on. Perhaps its time to admit that conservatism has been a miserable failure as a governing principle, unable or unwilling to act in the interest of the American people. Time for the "Bush isn't a real conservative" response?
And for what its worth, this dyed in the wool liberal thinks the CIA leakers should be charged with treason. Non-elected federal employees attempting to undermine an elected president's decisions is unacceptable, no matter what they think of the president.
Errrr.....National Secret Prisons that is. Should we have as many as we (they) want, where anything can happen to anyone ? Sure, if some Gov Honcho says its a secret, you bet !
"to the non-background checked, non-security cleared, unelected, unsworn to secrecy, press"
Hmmm...I wonder if the founders should have thought about the press as the APPROVED press, rather than the rabble who will print anything to sell papers.
Why not just make EVERYTHING a secret? Its wartime after all, and ANYTHING that is not in the interests of the war, well...you know....
What's wrong with operational security, praytell? If it was your butt on the line, I am sure that you, like any reasonable person, would be concerned with leaks that could compromise YOUR security! I know I would be!
You're a left wing America hater.
People like you and your fellow morons on the left will be the death of us yet.
And what for? Because your highschool or college social studies teacher taught you this crap? Because life isn't going too well for you, and you need someone other than yourself to blame?
What the founding fathers would have thought is "we didn't go through all of this trouble to start a free country so that douchebags like this guy could piss it all away".
On the good side, hysterics like yours are useful in a way. You look so childish and just plain dumb that the only people taking you seriously are the other retards at Kos, and possibly your mom.
Fucking tool.
This seems a big non-sequitur to me.
On the other hand, militancy, activism, proselytism and perennial fighting for the cause from every position are founding principles of the Left.
wrong. people like YOU, rick, will be the death of us all. Blindly believing what you are told in the face of overwhelming evidence of evil wrongdoing on the behalf of your masters.
How can you possibly write stuff like this with a straight face after five continuous years of Republican control leading to most massive expansion of government power and brutalist Keynesian debt seen since before the Johnson administration?
The Republican Party is Big Government. If there are any small-government conservatives left out there, and I rather doubt there are, either start voting Libertarian or shut the hell up about pretending you're for small government, because you're not.
JebTexasLHB@netscape.net
Every man that shot Union soldiers…was a Democrat. Every man that loved slavery better than liberty was a Democrat. The man that assassinated Abraham Lincoln was a Democrat…Every scar you have got on your heroic bodies was given to you by a Democrat…Every arm that is lacking, every limb that is missing…is a souvenir of a Democrat!
Kennedy + LBJ + Carter + Clinton = an emboldened radical Muslim populace that always wanted to kill us all, but now, thanks to the utter pussitude and borderline treason of Democrats, thinks they can.
Your little timeline is missing some names
Kennedy + LBJ + Carter + Clinton
+Nixon +Reagan + H.W.Bush
Did the radical muslims take those 18 years off? I don't think so. When do we get smacked the hardest? When chimpy mchalliburton is supposed to be minding the store, thats when.
Wake up fool- a whole series of errors has been made by both right and left. Secret prisons are not national security assets, they are a travesty, like torture done by Americans.
Seriously.
Well, rage on lefties. It's impressive and winning friends for your side of the aisle. Last time y'all were this worked up, it resulted in a Nixon landslide. Not everybody could get a Nixon elected (twice); y'all managed to revolt not only conservatives, but moderates too, which is quite an accomplishment when you think about it. So in spite of my rooting for the R's to at least lose the house, I'm looking forward to the Three Months' Hate prior to this next election. It should be spectacular and I anticipate you'll truly screw the Dems up going into the next presidential election, as they try to veer between the loudly shrieking Bush-hatin' left, and the 40% of Americans more or less in the middle politically.
Go ahead, flame away. It's really attractive.
Prove my point.
Ps. Chimpy McHalliburton? Does anybody actually say that, other than us conservatives when we're mocking you leftists? Jeebus dude... go back to working as a stringer for Buzzflash. Or to your day job at the CIA.
You're right about Benedict Arnold. In fact, he got a raw deal. I think maybe the Brutal West Point Winter got to him. In any event, perhaps we should reconsider. After all, he was merely trying to stop Chimpy McWashington and Neo-Federalist's Mad Rush to Independence(tm)!
Yep, that's what I'm sayin':
Benedict Arnold--WHISTLEBLOWER!
It's All About the Whale Oilllllllllll!!!!!
Did you really type that? Not exactly insignificant if you ask me. It seems a lot of people on this web site take the "right vs Left" view of politics. Very old fashioned and not particularly sophisticated. I am sick of hearing this "republican vs democrat" crap. Its time for America to depart from this one dimensional politics. Give me an option other than those two old and out of touch organizations.
Dumbass.
NoLogic has won a fabulous set of set of scorn and derision, hand-crafted by the commenters at ColdFury! A gift that will truly keep giving and provide many years of laughter to the ColdFury crew!
Thanks for playing "Show Your True Assininity on the Internet," NoLogic!
Ahh the lonely (soon to be) true wingnut. How grand Bill Clinton looks on the stage of history next to GWB, the modern word for failure and truly bad taste. How interesting it will be when the liberal media and the traitors will be at fault in November, when the Congress turns over, as it does from time to time in American history.
And of CF still accepts comments in light of such a catastrophe, I'll be here to revel in being right, yet again, on these pages.
Impressive commentary. And the (responsible) responding posts aren't bad either.
Nice Work!
By the way, "Randy Rager," have you seen this piece about one of the founders of the Democratic Pary?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson
I was especially moved by the section on "Indian Removal," though his record is all pretty disgusting. Yeah, the Dems are the defenders of the persecuted minorities all right. SURE they are.
And note the spooky physical resemplence to a recently failed presidential candidate of the Dem persuasion. Eeeesh! But at least you could probably have trusted Jackson with your life on a Swiftboat, unless you were an Indian or Black, or....(fill in the bland with the minority of your choice).
In many ways he was like them: economically illiterate, racist, egalitarian, in other words, a dumbass. But at least he was a man, something no current Democrat can say.