Originally Posted By: the G-man
 Originally Posted By: Matter-eater Man
Since I don't see the righties acting like they did back than I suggest the two are not comparable. The ATF agent isn't being attacked by conservatives like Plame was for example.


Hair splitting.

The Plame incident was allegedly about the abuse of power by the government in leaking confidential information to punish an employee.

The ATF incident is allegedly about the abuse of power by the government in leaking confidential information to punish an employee.

In neither case is/was the alleged abuse committed by private citizens exercising their first amendment rights in criticizing a government employee.

To be intellectually consistent, if you [are] outraged by the Plame matter, you should be outraged by the latest incident.


The other part that M E M gets wrong is that the ATF guy is a whistle-blower, exposing corruption and flaws in the system to correct them.
But is spun by Obama's people (and M E M) as a traitor betraying secrets for personal gain, or for mercenary criminal sale of information.

But the ACTUAL traitors in Obama's administration (revealing information about the Bin Ladin raid and Seal Team 6, and revealing Israel's plan to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities from secret airfields in Aizerbaijan. Obama National Security staff spilling top-secret information so often that Defense Secretary Gates finally told them to "shut the fuck up!") are not punished, only the whistle-blowers who are PORTRAYED as traitors.

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