{"id":30275,"date":"2012-06-06T08:34:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T12:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30275"},"modified":"2012-06-06T10:45:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T14:45:42","slug":"and-in-the-even-a-stopped-clock-is-right-twice-daily-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30275","title":{"rendered":"And In the “Even a Stopped Clock is Right Twice Daily” Department . . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m sure everyone has seen the many articles about US intelligence and\/or other “hush-hush” operations that have appeared in the press recently. (A decent summary is found here<\/a> – even if it does confuse some recent stuff with Stuxnet, which occurred about a year ago.) Hell, if you follow the news at all you couldn’t have missed them if you tried.<\/p>\n

My reaction on seeing them was pretty much “WTF?”. Not because some of them indicated things had not gone well, or that we’d screwed the pooch<\/strike> fornicated Fido – but because these things were being talked about at all. Some things just don’t need to be made public. Lives can literally depend on keeping some things quiet.<\/p>\n

A number of Members of Congress also apparently have the same thoughts. For all his faults, IMO McCain got this one right. He’s calling for appointment of a Special Prosecutor<\/a> to investigate. Chambliss (chair of the Senate Intel Committee) is similarly pissed. The Senate Armed Services Committee will apparently hold hearings. And even Pelosi and Kerry – not exactly known for being all that friendly towards the US Intel Community – are complaining publicly. <\/p>\n

When the Congressional leadership of both parties are complaining concurrently about the same leaks of classified info, you know things have gotten way out of control.<\/p>\n

I’ll refrain from speculating as to whether or not these leaks occurred for political purposes, or if some numbnuts simply couldn’t keep his or her damn mouth (or mouths) shut. Because whatever the reason for the leak, it simply doesn’t matter<\/em>. Leaks like this squander US assets and advantages. That costs lives on the battlefield – and sometimes in other places as well. See Walker, John and Hansen, Robert.<\/p>\n

Whoever leaked this stuff needs to be burned – now, publicly, and to the freaking ground<\/strong>. As does any senior official who authorized the leak without statutory authority to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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