But what is really troubling is we still have a revolt in our intelligence community which is trying to use the news media to influence our elections. The second greatest threat to our democracy is the intelligence community using intel against their political opponents. The whole FISA-NSA debate is about someone using intelligence assets to undermine a political foe. The thrust of this debate has been the President using these powers to undermine our country. But a battle takes two sides and what we have seen is the abuse of power and responsibility in the IC leaks to the NY Times, which regularly spins the information fed to them.
Exact-a-mundo. There hasn’t been one single leak out of the intelligence community that could even remotely be called “favorable” to the administration. While the timing of the current leak could have been better to affect the outcome of this year’s elections (say mid- to late-October), one cannot deny the leakers’ intent.
(BTW, be sure to follow the link to Macsmind in AJ’s post... or click on it here, no matter. Good stuff, too.)
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