Predictable scree from the Right

The Right's take on Mary McCarthy: She's a traitor. She's a Democrat. Her husband is a Democrat. Ergo, all Democrats are traitors. It's a Democratic conspiracy against the poor, lonely, voiceless conservatives who are always being abused by the press. Here's a sample.

So, the government finally launched a probe in January to find those who've been leaking top secret information to the press without authorization. And they've exposed their first traitor: senior National Intelligence Officer Mary O. McCarthy. She's admitted to this--after first lying about it and then flunking a lie detector, she confessed.

Buried deep--very deep--in the New York Times' story is the fact that she was a contributor to the John Kerry for President campaign in 2004. What they don't mention is that she was an even bigger donor to the Democratic Party, and her husband was likewise a significant donor to both...

I'm looking forward to her indictment, and what other cockroaches get shaken out.

I'm also looking forward to seeing a national discussion of the political nature of a lot of supposedly "apolitical" positions within places like Foggy Bottom and CIA.

I notice that some on other weblogs are trying to change the subject by noting a few cases where the President, Vice President, or Secretary of State allegedly told certain people certain things that were classified. I'm afraid that's not going to wash, folks. The President is the one who ultimately gets to decide what's Top Secret and what isn't. This is the job of the elected and appointed officials of the Executive Branche, not the hired help. It just isn't.

I'll mostly be sitting and silently watching all this shake out. But I expect to have to get the most important information from weblogs over the coming weeks--I don't expect the mainstream media to do anything but try to bury the most important details.

As Joe McCarthy said, the government is riddled with are card carrying Communists terrorists. They need to be smoked out and hung.