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Originally posted by Rodeo
My takeaway is this: When the secret prisons were exposed by the Washington Post (for which it won a Pulitzer Prize), the usual cries of "traitor" came from the administration. This was, after all, was secret information, and the Post's reporting hurt our national interests in some unspecified manner.

Now, with mid-terms looming, and the Repubs in trouble, the administration believes it is good politics to discuss the secret prisons, so it for the first time admits their existence (yes, for the first time, singpilot).

Once again, the Bush admin plays politics with the classification system, both classifying and "de-classifying" for reasons having nothing to do with national security, and everything to do with politics.

Traitor was indeed an apt description for those who released classified info described above. Now that the cat is long out of the bag....it is obviously something different. Of course the administration uses information to benefit our side and hurt the enemy...it is their job......the problem is with those who do the opposite and release information to damage our country and benefit the enemy (traitor).