Prometheus 6

...the past in this case being the Pentagon Papers. 

GOP Leaders Urge Probe in Prisons Leak
By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 9, 2005; A01

Congress's top Republican leaders yesterday demanded an immediate joint House and Senate investigation into the disclosure of classified information to The Washington Post that detailed a web of secret prisons being used to house and interrogate terrorism suspects.

The Post's article, published on Nov. 2, has led to new questions about the treatment of detainees and the CIA's use of "black sites" in Eastern Europe and elsewhere. The issue dogged President Bush on his recent trip to Latin America and has created consternation in Eastern Europe.

"If accurate, such an egregious disclosure could have long-term and far-reaching damaging and dangerous consequences, and will imperil our efforts to protect the American people and our homeland from terrorist attacks," Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) wrote in a letter to the chairmen of the House and Senate intelligence committees.

Gentlemen, if accurate, the "far-reaching damaging and dangerous consequences" came about long before the Washington Post's article was published. Don't you realize the people you're afraid of don't get their information from the U.S. media?

If accurate, it's been taking place on their soil. They already know...only Americans were ignorant.

How long were Iraqis talking about Abu Ghraib before those pictures broke? How long did Black folks in L.A. complain about the Rampart division before any official action was taken?

The people on the ground know. And unless you're so myopic you can only see what's inside your own head you'd realize the damage is already done.

If accurate, of course.