Former CIA Director Brennan: "With every last ounce of devotion to this country, resist"

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40. It comes down to Goldwater's old slogan

"Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice." I don't agree with the statement as a universal, but I get the essential meaning. And Cheney overstepped that meaning when he deliberately outed Ms Plame in retaliation for something her husband had written about his (Cheney's) lies. Cheney, of course, was not defending anyone's liberty. He was certainly under no threat of prison because of Joe Wilson's expose. But that unprincipled POS, nevertheless, saw fit to commit the very kind of treason Bush's father inveighed against: outing an undercover agent of the United States -- and with it, her entire string of contacts in Iran, btw.

Still, the CIA ain't no bastion of angels, I agree. But what Mr. Brennan said is, nevertheless completely true and, well, patriotic, as well. He's seen first hand the efforts of Russia and other enemy nations against us, so his alarum is especially poignant.