The ACLU is defending the "whistleblowers." What a shock.

Where were they when administration officials were blowing the whistle on Joe Wilson's lies, and being investigated for it?

As Brock Meeks just posted to the Farbers's IP list;

One man's crime is another man's civic or patriotic duty. The crap this administration has and is pulling under the guise of "protecting us" is making me ashamed to be an American.

I submit that it's never a "crime" when one shines a light on an illegal, heinous government act.

So there you go. If it is illegal and heinous, it's okay to jerpodize national security.

Who determines heinous? Meeks is a journalist - he simply knows these things when he sees them.

Yeah, that's a tough call.

On the one hand, if you are exposing an illegal act on the part of the government, then you have the protection of the whistleblower statutes.

On the other hand, if you read it wrong and it wasn't illegal after all, you have to accept the consequences of whatever it was you did. And it doesn't make you any friends in your old office, I think.

It seems to me the first question needs to be answered before the second.

When you get access to intelligence at these levels, you sign your life away for that working privledge. You do not reveal information at this level for reasons of less than a iron clad set in stone threat to the Republic. For anything below that, you resign and keep your mouth shut if you cannot do you job in good conscience.

These are, after all, weighty matters of national security and leaks cannot as a matter of principle be allowed to become a trivial matter. To take brush them off would set an ill precident.

If they wanted to blow a whistle, they should have approached the Senate or the Congressional commitees on Intelligence or even possibly the Justice Department. I.E. People with the appropriate clearences. You do not make your first move to pick up the phone and reveal intellignece that could cost lives and billions in treasury to the hacks at the New York Times.

You do not reveal information at this level for reasons of less than an iron clad set in stone threat to the Republic.

Trouble is, some of these people think Rush Limbaugh's radio show is "an iron clad set in stone threat to the Republic."

"Trouble is, some of these people think Rush Limbaugh's radio show is "an iron clad set in stone threat to the Republic."

That is why we have psychotherapy.