The deal is this. The Left wants to claim that Flynn did wrong
and but for the illegal leaks of someone in the intelligence agencies, no one would
know.
It is a claim that two wrongs make a right. “We had to destroy
the village to save it.”
So the question is as old as sin
.
Who will watch the watchers?
Given that the FISA court was contacted when a US citizen was
listened to, and we have no way of knowing that, and the conversation was
assumed to have some illegality about it, you would hope and assume that it
would be referred to the DOJ.
The DOJ would then try and determine if the conversation was
illegal. Either way, if the person was on the President's staff/employment, you
would assume he would be informed.
Nowhere in that chain do we have any reason
whatsoever for any information to be leaked to the press or anyone else.
Now, IF the actions of the President, in the eyes of the AG, were
found to be unacceptable then the AG should go public and resign. If that doesn't
happen then others within the chain should go public and resign.
The press and the voters can then become involved.
But that isn't what is happening. What we have are people who
are political opponents of the President trying to harm the President from the
shadows.
That's wrong. They weren’t elected and by doing so they send a
chill through our political processes and reveal to the enemy our ability to
collect intelligence.
And yes, if the "going public" is required I
understand that the individuals will be harmed, if not physically, then
professionally. But that comes
with the job just as was the possibility of being killed in training or combat comes
with being in the military or any other job that entails “defending the Constitution."
Simply put, if you don’t want such responsibilities then don’t
take the job.
(Part of this was previously published in www.TalkLeft.com.
"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper
