via-Drew Pooters In 2005, the Washington Post published details of a program that held terror suspects in various sites abroad, including in Jordan, where they could be interrogated more harshly than in the U.S. The leak was widely denounced. Conservatives were right to be angry back then. In all of the above cases, the political campaign waged against these powerful counter-terrorism programs led to their dismantling. Alerting al-Qaeda to the possibility that their phone calls were being monitored and their finances being tracked, even after the nation had endured the worst domestic attack in history, could have easily been construed as giving aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war. The leaks themselves were classifiable as espionage and had enormous consequences. A week after the 2005 Post report, an al-Qaeda strike on Western hotels in Jordan killed more than 50 people. The CIA leaker in this case, Mary McCarthy, a significant Democratic Party donor, was never prosecuted, though she clearly violated espionage laws and likely precipitated the deaths of many innocent people.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:49:45 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015