Now a CIA analyst has been fired for leaking information about the CIA's network of secret prisons to the press. [Read story.]
While I recognize that there are some intelligence secrets that must remain guarded, it seems that this kind of stuff only hits the fan when the leak exposes some kind of illegal action on the part of the Bush administration (e.g., using a secret network of prisons, outing a CIA agent, etc.).
In this case, we should be alarmed not by the leak but by the information that it revealed. This is supposed to be an open democracy. Secret prisons have no place here.
Shooting the messenger is an obvious attempt to cloud the issue.
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