Abuse of one form or another

Some right-wingers still decry the exposure of the use of the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s to undermine foreign nations through non-democratic coups and other actions. They bemoan the damage of the Church Committee's exposure of assasination attempts and dirty tricks against your Allende's, your Mossadegh's and your Lamumba's.

How ironic is it then that now many of those same people, or their descendants, now bash the CIA from the other end, defending the exposing of those who operate secretly for the agency, and they do it to push the same overzealous, overreaching policies decried years ago for being violations of basic notions of human rights and morality.

Yet the outcome of the Rove/Libby/Novak et al publication exposed the actual job performed by Valerie Plame Wilson and the front company, Brewster-Jennings that she, and undoubtedly many other CIA employees were nominally employed by. Each and every one of their actual occupations were exposed. And from Plame's perspective at least, all of her contacts in the area of "Weapons of Mass Destruction" in Africa (home of much of the world's uranium) were exposed.

But p'shaw, that is meaningless when it comes down to preserving the Bush Administration's power.

It all comes down to the fact that too many folks think power is about the ability to act immorally and get away with it, while preaching their own superiority connection to the Almighty.

One group that has noticed it, are CIA officials who have sent a message to Congress as put up by Josh Marshall, you can see it here.