WAS I A VICTIM OF A “WHITE NOISE” CAMPAIGN?<\/b><\/p>\n
John Robb<\/a><\/strong> points to this very<\/em><\/strong> disturbing post by Larry Johnson<\/strong> <\/a>that indicates that the furor over SWIFT might have been a distraction from a leak that was a far more serious and damaging national security. (Yes, I’m aware that Larry tends to hyperventilate about politics but he also has actual expertise worth considering).<\/p>\n My basic position remains the same as with SWIFT – these leaks are remarkably unhelpful and must stop, which means that ” bigfoot” leakers – those filling positions from the EOB apex down to the deputy assistant secretary level, plus the CSRA 1978 “superclass” of senior bureaucrats and key Congressional staffers – need to be prosecuted and do some jail time. Yeah, a whistleblower exception makes sense but only if narrowly defined.<\/p>\n So, I may very well have blown the call on SWIFT, and for that I apologize. A good reminder for me to “watch your friends as closely as your adversaries”. Thank you, John.<\/p>\n Have to pick up that Susskind book…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WAS I A VICTIM OF A “WHITE NOISE” CAMPAIGN? John Robb points to this very disturbing post by Larry Johnson that indicates that the furor over SWIFT might have been a distraction from a leak that was a far more serious and damaging national security. (Yes, I’m aware that Larry tends to hyperventilate about politics […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}