Edward Snowden’s leaks and
impudent voyage are causing terrible grief for Democratic leaders. They insist
he’s a joker, that his cause needn’t be taken seriously. They see cowardice and
hypocrisy in his travel plans. Still.
They want him back, desperately.
They want him back, desperately.
The reliably dignified Chair
of the Senate Intelligence Committee Dianne Feinstein well expressed on CNN's "State of the
Union" official
Washington’s barely concealed rage about Moscow’s humming and hawing over
sending Snowden back:
“I
suspect this sort of temporary amnesty or refugee status is to give Russia time
to really consider what's in their best interests. And I think, if they think
about it hard, what Snowden did, it's not in their best interests,” Sen. Dianne
Feinstein (D-Calif.) said on CNN’s 'State of the Union.' Putin knows this.
He's run the KGB, he knows what intelligence is comprised of.”
Maybe it is too soon for
Democratic office holders to laugh. In politics, after all, farce often first
appears as tragedy.
Yet, if it’s funny to
discover that Tea Party cells all over America think of themselves as
“charitable” organizations, it’s every bit as funny to hear the biggest liberal
Democratic vote-getter in sunny, libertine California invoking the culture of
the KGB to get through to that brute Vladimir Putin.
Even without Feinstein’s
witless faux pas, however, we should feel free to take her gravitas on national
intelligence with a grain of salt. Snowden may be too young to be wise.
However, Senator Feinstein was an experienced mature Senator in 2002 when she
voted for the Senate resolution to permit the invasion of Iraq: a resolution
based on paranoid innuendos and false intelligence.
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