Why not reveal all our national security secrets? Why not just telegraph all our tactics and strategies to any and all who might desire to inflict harm upon the citizens of the United States?
“Obama consulted widely on memos.”
I just cannot fathom the reasoning or basis upon which President Obama made a conscious decision to expose national secrets and by extension those who employed the tactics exposed. The reasoning given or eluded to is the Presidents belief in transparency. Well, that is fine for his administration; but he is taking liberties with the administration of the prior president and unless there is proof positive that laws were broken then he should have honored decision made by that prior president.
President Obama has just breached a confidence that should exist between a Command in Chief and his troops. Throwing a bone via a promise not to prosecute CIA operatives does nothing to mitigate the breach in confidence that President Obama’s operatives should have in him.
President Bush was excoriated by the media for the perceived exposure of the CIA agent Valerie Plame, yet the real exposure that President Obama has inflicted upon the entire nation will be given a pass by the now-sleeping watch-dog media. I for one am getting quite tired of the MSM double standard.
Old Soldier 