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4.25.06 @ 12:01AM

OUR ENEMIES AT LANGLEY
Re: Jed Babbin's Jail Time:

A big thumbs up to Jed Babbin's article on Mary McCarthy, traitor. Her appalling actions have given aid and comfort to our enemies, and possibly alienated some of our staunchest allies (a few weeks after the Washington Post story broke, I recall reading that Polish officials made it very clear they would think long and hard about working with us in this manner ever again).

But nearly appalling as her actions has been the liberal media's double standard. After months of tut-tutting Mr. Bush's alleged outing of Valerie Plame -- some even wondered aloud whether this compromised our national security -- the members of Big Media were strangely silent when the Washington Post committed the far more egregious act of printing Dana Priest's story.

Already, CBS' Bob Schieffer and NPR's Nina Totenberg are lashing out at Bush for his more-than-appropriate firing of Ms. McCarthy. Let us pray that her actions and the "reporting" of certain members of the press will be seen for what they are: treasonous acts against a nation at war.
-- Greg Hoadley
Boca Raton, Florida

Where are all the Mary McCarthy pictures? There is one old shot of her, which originated from CSIS. But the CSIS site has been cleansed of any mention of her. And there are two screen grabs of her from a video dated 2003. Other than those, there's nothing to be had. Why haven't we seen anything more recent, like maybe from last Friday when she was fired? Why haven't the media been hounding her every breathing moment for those embarrassing shots to plaster all over the news?
-- Kitty Myers
Painted Post, New York

Jed Babbin writes, "The liberal media is so consumed with its hatred for George Bush that it has lost any sense of loyalty to our nation." Exactly so. And ditto that for the Democratic Party.

Look back on WWII and note the national cohesion. What caused it? Well yes, it was a different America then. But perhaps the prime reason for WWII unity was that the U.S. was indirectly fighting to save the USSR. So more than anything, it was concern for the wellbeing of the Communist mother state that induced the left to be cooperative with the war effort. Otherwise the left would have been ankle biting the war effort -- just like it is today.

As for this CIA analyst Mary McCarthy, she is a traitor, as Jed Babbin writes. The sooner she and her ilk are given prison time, but the healthier the nation will be.
-- Peter Skurkiss
Stow, Ohio

The mainstream media are, in reality, no longer free but have been captured by the Democrats, socialists, Communists, anarchists, and environmental wackos.
-- Howard Lohmuller
Seabrook, Texas

Excellent!

Information reported on several blogs indicates Ms. McCarthy was a Democratic insider well connected with Clinton-era political operatives, high-level appointees (of which she was one), and outspoken retired partisan generals. McCarthy and apparently her husband recently made significant donations to Democratic causes. McCarthy told her story and committed her treasonous crime with reporter/accomplice Dana Priest. Priest works at a paper highly critical of the Bush administration. Priest's husband operates a company that employs former ambassador Joe Wilson as a speaker. Priest received a Pulitzer for reporting classified information that embarrassed the administration and compromised U.S. interests abroad. If there was any lingering doubt about the bias of Washington MSM, those doubts can be safely put away. If there was any lingering doubt about the infection of many main stream democratic politicians and bureaucrats with the disease identified by Charles Krauthammer as "Bush Derangement Syndrome," those doubts can be safely put away.

All that remains now is aggressive prosecution of Ms. McCarthy and hopefully Ms. Priest.
-- Doug Santo
Pasadena, California

Mr. Babbin's latest column is another one of his home runs in my humble opinion. My only worry is that George Bush will NOT make his administration enforce the legal sanctions available. I know that an argument will be made that to take the latest leak case to trial risks state secrets being made public. It seems to me that they are being made public now anyway. I believe that Bush's lack of ordering full prosecution gives the public the (correct?) impression that he is not serious about going after his opponents, instead preferring to attack his base. Remember when he ordered the Justice Department to NOT go after the Clinton staffers that trashed the White House as they left? Did we see Sandy Berger hauled before a judge and then incarcerated for theft of classified government documents? How about almost five-plus years of refusal to enforce our borders against the illegal alien invasion.

I am also not sanguine as regards doing anything effective about the MSM and their sell out of the country to wage an insurgency against Bush. I am personally convinced that most within the press are thoroughly indoctrinated into the camp of the one-worlders that abhor the very notion of sovereign nation states. Also, we must remember that journalists today are not in the business to report the news and happenings of the day. They are in the business to "make a difference." They are determined to make, or at least affect, the news. Why else would such a major part of each news report be consumed with reporting on public opinion polls? Just tell me what happened and who did it, I can handle the rest on my own. And where are we to find courts and juries that are willing to convict and sentence working members of the press in such instances like the one Jed reports on in this column?

REMEMBER THE ALAMO -- BUSH WON'T
-- Ken Shreve

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