Journalists on Sunday Shows Hail Leaker

Journalists on Sunday Shows Hail Leaker
for Exposing Prisons

Far from condemning a CIA officials damaging leak of classified information about ongoing efforts to prevent terrorism, on the Sunday morning interview shows, three panelists -- a former network White House correspondent, a newspaper and radio veteran and a current network anchor -- hailed Mary McCarthy, the CIA staffer fired last week for telling the Washington Post's Dana Priest about secret prisons in Eastern Europe. ABC's Sam Donaldson heralded the revelations as "a victory for the American people" and compared her actions to those sitting at lunch counters in the 1960s, NPR's Juan Williams trumpeted her "right to speak" and her "act of conscience" and CBS's Bob Schieffer characterized the prisons as what "scares" him and claimed the "CIA fired an agent" just "for hanging out" with a reporter.

On ABC's This Week, Donaldson asserted: "Remember the great American saying, 'disobedience to tyranny is disobedience to God.' In this case it was something that clearly I think most Americans would agree is not what we want to do, secret prisons, the right of detention not being open to public scrutiny. I mean, I think exposing something like that does not hurt us. It helps us." Former Washington Post reporter Juan Williams, now with NPR, contended on Fox News Sunday that since "she's an American citizen, she has a right to speak out." Confronted by host Chris Wallace, "You don't really believe that there's any justification for what she did. You don't really?", Williams proclaimed: "Yes, I do....If she felt that this was a violation of our principles as a country and was untenable in terms of her conscience working for the U.S. government, why shouldn't she act?" Schieffer maintained in his end of the show commentary on Face the Nation that "it's not the leakers, it's what they're leaking that scares me. After all, why should a democracy be operating secret prisons? If the government hadn't told us they exist, can we ever be sure who might wind up inside them? Isn't finding out stuff like that what reporters are supposed to do?"

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While I have many issues with Bush & Co over the border, spending, etc I have no issue with these 'so called' secret prisons. What ever the US is doing to terrorists is not a patch to what I would do to them.

People who work for the Fed's and 'leak' material to the media are 'unhelpful' to say the least. All this blather about democracy in a nation that has never been a democracy (The US is a representative republic and always has been. The word 'democracy' in not mentioned in the US Constitution and the Founding Fathers would have been horrified to hear this nation described as a democracy) is laughable, as is the part about who might be imprisoned next. If the Fed's don't even bother to lock up the 'leaker's' then how great can the danger be?

This story is of course all the rage because MSM is all het up about it. However a 'real danger lurks' just across the Rio Grande River and of course MSM isn't worried about that!