WASHINGTON -- A week-old newspaper report that the CIA is secretly using prisons abroad to interrogate terror suspects took on new life Tuesday as House and Senate Republican leaders demanded an investigation into who leaked classified material.
To the Republican leadership this had to look like a great opportunity for the GOP to pull a gotcha on the left. There is only 1 problem with this plan.
Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., told CNN that the leak to the Post likely came from Republican senators. Lott said much of the information in the story was discussed at a meeting of Republican senators and Vice President Dick Cheney on Nov. 1, the day before it was published.
Opps
In addition, at the core of this, is a basic issue of truthfulness, and relevancy. The Plame outing was politically driven and based on revenge and lies. There was no wrong exposed by the leak, and it actually exposed a covert US agent. In this case, the press has exposed an activity that may be illegal, and for most Americans is clearly outside the bounds of acceptable behavior for our government.
If the media is pressed on this one, I hope the stand firm.
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You're right. What's important here is the morally reprehensible, if not illegal, use of foreign soil to incarcerate and torture those prisoners that the administration somehow instinctively knows would cause political problems here at home if the treatment became publicly known to all. This is the work of a whistle blower, and not an outing, as in the Plame incident.
What they said.
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