When I was in the Service, it was was my job to protect classified data

[MrScorpio]

I had a Top Secret-SCI security clearance and access to classified systems and restricted locations.

It was a duty that I took quite seriously.

At the same time, Bush was pushing the nation towards an illegal war against Iraq.

However...

Not once, ever, did I feel that it was the right thing to do to steal classified information and reveal it, because I had a moral objection to Bush's warmongering.

Not once, ever, did I feel that it was the right thing to do to break my oath to uphold the Constitution and to disobey my superiors, because I felt that invading Iraq was illegal.

Not once, ever, did I feel that it was the right thing to do to expose the nation's secrets to unauthorized persons to make a point, just as Dick Cheney did.


Yes, I hated the war and I was even a member of DU at the time. But betraying the nation's secrets was something that I never considered and I still think is beyond the pale.

The service member who stole the information that he was not entitled to steal and sent it to people who were not entitled to receive it should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.


Now, I'll say this: While he was in the service and was a witness to wrong doings by our government, there are proper channels that he could have reported those wrong doings. There is a right way to do things and a wrong way to do them.

What he did was completely wrong.