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Saturday, August 12, 2006

Santorum Flip Flops on Treason

Tricky Ricky Sanitorium has flip flopped on what constitutes treason. According to our Junior Senator it's alright to reveal the name of an undercover CIA operative working to disclose weapons of mass destruction. But Ricky thinks it's treason to reveal the fact George Bush is violating his oath of office by wiretapping Americans. Add to this Sanitorium's own treasonous (by his standards) disclosure of a top secret document on Fox News. The idiot actually held it up for the camera!

Whistleblowers revealing programs even the most feeble minded terrorists know exist but are flagrant violations of Americans' constitutional civil rights, to me, is heroic. Osama stopped using telephones after Bill Clinton responded with some well placed but ill timed cruise missiles back in the mid '90's. They stopped using banks and wire transfers long ago. Heck, even the Administration said they would track all financial transactions linked to terrorism after 9/11. The only news left out of that story was that they were doing this on a massive scale, without warrants, on Americans.

These were significant news stories. Sanitorium's fake news story about the degraded junkpile of old, 1980's artillery shells, wasn't. That didn't prevent him from waving a classified document all over television however. If this is Ricky's position on this let him be the first to hang.