Who's the Real Traitors?

Bush and the neo-con thugs that surround him, not only love to instill terrorism fears into the populace, they take fiendish pleasure in describing anyone who disagrees with them as “aiding the enemy”, or as “giving comfort to our enemies”, and even make more scurrilous, baseless charges. Preferring rule by decree, they are truly incapable of governing – scaring is their modus operandi. In order to scare, they need to score political points and what better way than to manipulate classified intelligence information? Take a few secrets, twist them, mold them into something useful – who's to know?

Senator Jay Rockefeller has charged that the Bush administration authorized leaking classified information to reporter Bob Woodward.

Rockefeller charged in his letter that the most "damaging revelations of intelligence sources and methods are generated primarily by Executive Branch officials pushing a particular policy...."

Later in the same letter, Rockefeller said: "Given the Administration's continuing abuse of intelligence information for political purposes, its criticism of leaks is extraordinarily hypocritical. Preventing damage to intelligence sources and methods from media leaks will not be possible until the highest level of the Administration cease to disclose classified information on a classified basis for political purposes."

...it is well known and has been reported long ago that one of Woodward's sources for both of his books about the Bush presidency was then-VicePresidential chief of staff, Lewis Libby. On February 9th, the National Journal reported that Lewis Libby told a grand jury that he was 'authorized' by Vice President Cheney and other White House superiors to disclose classified information.

Does anyone really believe this group would not twist or leak classified information? Does Valerie Plame ring a bell, WMD's, or the mushroom cloud??? Does Bush damage national security – did he with Woodward? There are more reputable people who believe so:

Michael Scheuer, the CIA's former head of the CIA's Bin Laden Unit, wrote in his book Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror:

After reading Mr. Woodward's Bush at War, it seems to me that the U.S. officials who either approved or participated in passing the information--in documents and via interviews--that is the heart of Mr. Woodward's book gave an untold measure of aid and comfort to the enemy.

Ahhh, so who are the traitors to America?
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