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February 10, 2006
Porter Goss: 'Leak of classified info giving terrorists edge over CIA'
Topics: War on TerrorCIA director Porter Goss warned today that the intelligence agency was at risk of losing a key battle to terrorists - that of safeguarding its classified information, and that criminal disclosures of national security information, can help the terrorists gain an edge when they keep their secrets and we don't keep ours. Porter wrote that current or former intelligence agency employees who go straight to the press are "not noble, honourable or patriotic," that on the contrary, they are committing a criminal act that potentially places American lives at risk.
What Porter Goss writes is logical, and should be common sense for all but the most simple-minded of Americans. After all, Americans overwhelmingly support President Bush's decision to wiretap suspected terrorists operating inside the U.S. without first obtaining a court order - and a solid plurality believe those who leaked news of the secret operation are "traitors. So why is it that so many Democrats, and even some Republicans, have such difficulty understanding this. How can they believe that terrorists should have a carte blanche for planning attacks on America, but America should just sit back and wait for the next attack?
What's more dangerous, an accidental monitoring of a personal or business phone call, or a failure to know in advance that terrorists are planning to attack a high rise building in an American city, or a school, stadium, hospital, or shopping center? Surely, another attack is coming, the only questions are when and where. If we don't have the tools to know the answer to these two questions, the ONLY result can be many dead Americans.
Posted by Richard at February 10, 2006 10:38 AM
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