Why Do You Support Treason, Fred Thompson?

by Brent Budowsky

Dear Fred Thompson. You are one of Amerca's strongest public supporters of Scooter Libby in the CIA Leak case and, as a potential commander in chief, there are some questions you should answer for the Nation:

If you are commander in chief, would you believe it is proper for your senior White House staff to publicly identify the names of covert officers?

As commander in chief, don't you feel a moral, military and patriotic obligation that is sacred to protect the lives and safety of those who serve under your command?

Don't you believe that public identification of covert officers threatens our troops and our security by harming our ability to wage war when necessary, by weakening our intelligence capability?

Regarding covert officers engaged in actions aimed to kill those planning terrorist attacks against Americans, are you on the side of our covert officers, or on the side of terrorists, who are aided and abetted by disclosure of the identities of covert officers working against them?

If you are commander in chief, faced with the decision about whether America should go to war, do you want the most accurate intelligence to make that decision and if necessary most effectively wage war? Or do you believe in receiving distorted or untrue "information" or misrepresenting intelligence information to "sell" the war that accurate intelligence might suggest would be reckless or unwise?

Do you understand that the compromising of intelligence information, intelligence officers and front companies not only endangers the lives of Americans, and endangers the lives of foreigners who cooperate with our security programs, but endangers the very lives of our Armed Forces personnel who depend on good intelligence to survive, and win?

As commander in chief, would you put the interests of the Republican Party, or your personal campaigning, ahead of the interests of covert officers protecting our communities from potential nuclear terrorism?

As you prepare to run for the Presidency, please answer this: if someone at a high level on your White House staff is ever convicted of perjury, would you promote or fire that person?

Finally, on the CIA leak case, do you judge those serving under your command by which felonies receive criminal conviction or which acts hurt our security, endanger those who serve, threaten our communities and serve the interests of the terrorists who attacked on 9-11 and those who may be planning a nuclear 9-11?

Is your priority, sir, patriotism or politics?

As someone who spent years of my life working on the Intelligence Identities Protection Act and knows a great deal about the policies and practices of covert action, and the destructiveness of these leaks, I believe you owe the American people honest answers to these hard but vital questions.

(NOTE FROM LARRY JOHNSON: Fred Thompson may have played a Prosecutor on TV, but it is clear he does not understand the basics of perjury and obstruction of justice. His lame excuses for Scooter Libby and his willingness to give money to back the convicted felon underscores that Thompson is not fit to be President of the Screen Actors Guild much less the United States.)


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