Feinstein, Meet Irony: Outraged Senate Will Investigate Leak But Not Horrific Acts It Reveals

[kpete]

04.15.14 - 12:21 PM
Feinstein, Meet Irony: Outraged Senate Will Investigate Leak But Not Horrific Acts It Reveals

Surreal: Charging that possible perps "broke the law and should be prosecuted,” aggrieved Senate Intelligence Committee chair Dianne Feinstein is investigating, and has called on the DOJ to investigate, the dastardly leak to McClatchy of parts of the 6,600-page report finding the CIA repeatedly lied about a "brutal" torture program “inconsistent with (U.S.) public policy positions regarding human rights" - torture that in fact didn't work. It seems the Senate is scandalized not by the crimes committed in our names, but by journalists telling us about them. With the call for prosecution, the government thus maintains its admirable stance in only making accountable the people who reveal our nation's misdeeds - see John Kiriakou and Edward Snowden - but not those who authorize or commit them. Oh we have arrived at a sorrowful place.

-Abby Zimet
http://www.commondreams.org/further/2014/04/15-1

[Dragonfli]

1. Hmm, a link to something interesting (if you have a netflix account)

It seems the Senate is scandalized not by the crimes committed in our names, but by journalists telling us about them. With the call for prosecution, the government thus maintains its admirable stance in only making accountable the people who reveal our nation's misdeeds - see John Kiriakou and Edward Snowden - but not those who authorize or commit them. Oh we have arrived at a sorrowful place.

The above is entrenched bipartisan policy now

[neverforget]

2. The Truth hurts the powerful and upsets the status quo.

[Dragonfli]

4. It also interferes with fascism and illegal acts, so we will continue on this path

The biggest fortunes are made via those two routes and varying combinations thereof. This is all by design and has been implemented ever since we lost our Democracy.

[Vattel]

3. In defense of Feinstein, revealing state secrets is a serious crime.

I mean, it's not like the state does anything really bad in secret, like torturing people, or sending them to secret prisons, or detaining them indefinitely without due process, or spying on citizens without reasonable suspicion. Oh, wait. I guess the state does do all of that. No wonder they want to keep it a secret.

[Dragonfli]

5. You are correct of course those minor transgressions you mentioned

are crimes so slight that we can just forgive them and "move on looking forward!"