Yesterday, the CIA fired Mary McCarthy over leaks about secret prisons in Europe.  Super-hack Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas was of course congratulatory.

Could there be a more perfectly clear case of using “national security” to protect political interests rather than the country?  The argument that the revelation somehow helps international terrorists is so ludicrous that it’s difficult to even state.  Assuming that the CIA actually didn’t arrest the wrong guy, one would have to believe that the leadership didn’t notice their people being abducted until The Washington Post pointed it out.

Frightening, isn’t it?  Just think how effective a killing machine al Qaeda will be now that they know the CIA is after them and the NSA might intercept their phone calls.  Before these dangerous revelations, they didn’t bother to conceal their identities and made operational plans over the phone.

Pete DeWan