FROM BUREAUCRATS TO MILLIONAIRES
The Bush administration has been a real opportunity and boon to mid-level faceless federal bureaucrats, reaping millions for many. They portray themselves as whistle-blowers, write a book and rake in the money. What the media doesn’t comment on is their intermediate step of at the least being quasi-traitors to their country.
The bonanza began with Richard Clark, who wrote his book, testified before the 9/11 Commission, and is, appropriately, now teaching at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. As my favorite vet (FV) says, Richard Clark is a bureaucrat who is mad that his superiors would not listen to his advice. Never mind that those who would not listen were in the Clinton administration. And, never mind that much of his testimony contradicted what he had written and said previously. He is still a genuine hero of the far left.
Next we have Valerie Plame and her house-husband, ex-low level state department employee, Joe Wilson. These two were not satisfied with just the book. They also wanted to be part of the “beautiful people” and so we were treated to their pictures on magazine covers. Never mind that the government has wasted millions investigating and now trying to prosecute a crime that never occurred.
For the succeeding NY-LA Times and WA Post reports we have not been told the bureaucrats names as yet. Things got a little dicier for the so-called whistlers when the President defended both the NSA surveillance programs and now the “follow the money” investigations. What with representative Peter King (R-NY) opining that both the snitches and the publisher and editor of the NY Times ought to be prosecuted and sent to jail, notoriety has become chancier. But, you can bet that as we get closer to the 08 elections we will hear from these people as well.
Today the President said when speaking of the latest flap about tracking terrorist money that, “...the disclosure is disgraceful [and] it makes it harder to win the war on terror.” For those who believe this will have no effect on the prosecution of the war, I suggest you recall the allegation that the U.S has employed secret prisons in Europe. Two Washington Post writers won Pulitzers for that reporting and it spurred an investigation by the European Council, the EU’s civil rights organization. The head investigator, Dick Marty, has “acknowledged he lacked proof,” but the investigation and the allegations have gone on. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/07/AR2006060700505.html In fact Mr. Marty said, “Even if proof, in the classical meaning of the term, is not as yet available...elements indicate that [they] did exist.” Apparently, he is still looking for his blue dress.
The significance of this is investigation is just that the new revelations concerning the money trail will spur on all the other little Martys in Europe and the far left, and the Democrats in this country to demand even more investigations. You can bet that the anti-Bush Marty- Murtha-Feingold cabal will be calling for a cease and desist of international money trailing and the pressure from Europe will increase exponentially. (As a side-light: Feingold wants to run for President-how can you trust someone who wants to cede all Presidential power to the Senate and not use all available tools to protect the country.)
I do not believe that the once venerable NY Times is on the side of America. Along with the Post et al who are so anxious to have their friends in control of the US Congress and into the White House in 08, they have apparently made a conscious decision that anything goes until that objective is met. Perhaps they believe they can fix it later. But then, much of the Democrat Party led by Howard Dean and “thedailyKos” do not believe we are in any kind of conflict, so for them no harm, no foul.
If your objective is to insure that this country gets hit with another terrorist attack, you might consider forcing the government to waste precious time and money investigation themselves. That would be deliberate treason. My guess is the bureaucrats can’t resist the money and fame that otherwise would be totally out of their karma. As for the news media publishing these programs, the Pulitzer and getting their friends elected is more important than winning the war.
The bonanza began with Richard Clark, who wrote his book, testified before the 9/11 Commission, and is, appropriately, now teaching at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. As my favorite vet (FV) says, Richard Clark is a bureaucrat who is mad that his superiors would not listen to his advice. Never mind that those who would not listen were in the Clinton administration. And, never mind that much of his testimony contradicted what he had written and said previously. He is still a genuine hero of the far left.
Next we have Valerie Plame and her house-husband, ex-low level state department employee, Joe Wilson. These two were not satisfied with just the book. They also wanted to be part of the “beautiful people” and so we were treated to their pictures on magazine covers. Never mind that the government has wasted millions investigating and now trying to prosecute a crime that never occurred.
For the succeeding NY-LA Times and WA Post reports we have not been told the bureaucrats names as yet. Things got a little dicier for the so-called whistlers when the President defended both the NSA surveillance programs and now the “follow the money” investigations. What with representative Peter King (R-NY) opining that both the snitches and the publisher and editor of the NY Times ought to be prosecuted and sent to jail, notoriety has become chancier. But, you can bet that as we get closer to the 08 elections we will hear from these people as well.
Today the President said when speaking of the latest flap about tracking terrorist money that, “...the disclosure is disgraceful [and] it makes it harder to win the war on terror.” For those who believe this will have no effect on the prosecution of the war, I suggest you recall the allegation that the U.S has employed secret prisons in Europe. Two Washington Post writers won Pulitzers for that reporting and it spurred an investigation by the European Council, the EU’s civil rights organization. The head investigator, Dick Marty, has “acknowledged he lacked proof,” but the investigation and the allegations have gone on. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/07/AR2006060700505.html In fact Mr. Marty said, “Even if proof, in the classical meaning of the term, is not as yet available...elements indicate that [they] did exist.” Apparently, he is still looking for his blue dress.
The significance of this is investigation is just that the new revelations concerning the money trail will spur on all the other little Martys in Europe and the far left, and the Democrats in this country to demand even more investigations. You can bet that the anti-Bush Marty- Murtha-Feingold cabal will be calling for a cease and desist of international money trailing and the pressure from Europe will increase exponentially. (As a side-light: Feingold wants to run for President-how can you trust someone who wants to cede all Presidential power to the Senate and not use all available tools to protect the country.)
I do not believe that the once venerable NY Times is on the side of America. Along with the Post et al who are so anxious to have their friends in control of the US Congress and into the White House in 08, they have apparently made a conscious decision that anything goes until that objective is met. Perhaps they believe they can fix it later. But then, much of the Democrat Party led by Howard Dean and “thedailyKos” do not believe we are in any kind of conflict, so for them no harm, no foul.
If your objective is to insure that this country gets hit with another terrorist attack, you might consider forcing the government to waste precious time and money investigation themselves. That would be deliberate treason. My guess is the bureaucrats can’t resist the money and fame that otherwise would be totally out of their karma. As for the news media publishing these programs, the Pulitzer and getting their friends elected is more important than winning the war.
posted by Gunston Hall Moderator at 12:16 PM
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Right on!!!
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