Friday, June 8, 2012

What was the point?

This matter of national-security leaks by someone - or some people - in the regime that has aroused bipartisan congressional alarm is another one of those scandals, like Fast and Furious, that seems so goofy on the face of it (How did they expect to defend something so fundamentally detrimental to our nation's well-being?) that it strains the imagination to conceive of a reason why they did it.  Was somebody trying to bolster the MEC's bad-ass creds?  Demonstrate how formidable our security apparatus is?

As lots of folks are pointing out, one exchange that crystallized the split between the White House and the Defense department was when Robert Gates told Tom Donilon to "shut the f--- up."

As this one unfolds over the summer, I think we will learn a lot indeed.

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