Defining Treason Down
Bluto at The Jawa Report has this post on Washington Post executive editor Len Downie and where he stands on the Mary O. McCarthy firing. First, from the Post itself:
Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. said people who provide citizens the information they need to hold their government accountable should not “come to harm for that.”
Then Bluto:
Now, think about that. Downie is actually advocating trying to run a government in which not a single bit of data can reasonably be expected to remain confidential. Downie doesn’t explain what disclosures match his criteria for “holding their government accountable”. Evidently, those determinations are up to any of the hundreds of thousands of government employees who are privy to classified information.
An important part of growing up in America is realizing that you don’t have a God-given right to know every fucking thing your government is doing at all times and right now. Some people mistake the ability to disseminate important intelligence with their right to free expression (or, as the miserable asshole Joe Wilson puts it, the “right as a citizen of this country to participate in the selection of my leaders”). When these people are officers of the United States intelligence community, they undermine our country’s security for partisan advantage.
Enjoy your Pulitzer Prize, Ms. Priest. You and McCarthy certainly earned it.
