We need boxes of Depends in Washington DC

We have leaks galore. We have the leaks by Condi, Bush, Cheney et al, then we have leaks by the CIA. Seems to me there might be a critical need for a few boxes of Depends. Gotta catch the drips, don’t cha know.

But see we have some leaks and drips that are okayed by the government. These drips evidently do not have an unpleasant aroma. Socially acceptable leaks I guess you could call them. Okay, so they outted a CIA agent. Hey, it was necessary if the administration was going to convince the American people that they weren’t lying about Iraq having weapons that would blow up our country like a drunk shooter on a quail hunt. Basically they wanted us to believe there was a monster in the closet and anyone who said otherwise was fair game. Justifiable declassification they might call it, in order to promote a lie.

Then we have a CIA agent who possibly just didn’t feel it was morally responsible to remain silent about the fact that the United States was scooping up human beings and flying them to prisons far away to be tortured. This was supposedly being done in the name of preserving freedom and justice for all. The agent knew that smelled really bad and maybe just couldn’t live with the fact that it was happening. She leaked the information to a reporter and the reporter printed the story. That agent has now been fired for doing what she did.

It’s okay to leak to sell a lie, but it’s not okay to leak to save a life. That’s the bush administration’s point of view. If a female agent is outted in order to start a war, that’s okay. If a female agent outs the torture of human beings by the government, that’s not okay.

“Depends” is the operative word here. It just depends on who the leaker might be and why they leaked as to whether or not it’s socially, bush white house-ally, acceptable.