We Don't Have A Leakers Problem, We Have A Left Problem
by Daniel Greenfield: Paul Ryan and Deputy AG Rosenstein have taken care to distinguish leakers (bad) from journalists (good). The leakers are bad. But the journalists just might be committing a public service.
"Leaks are concerning because leaks can often compromise national security, but that’s the problem of the leaker not the journalist," Ryan said.
But that's an odd formulation. The journalist is an American. Compromising national security should concern him. If it doesn't, should he concern us?
The leakers and the journalists are not really separate classes. The old formula where the government employee reveals something to a journalist has given way to members of the opposition party in the media and the government coordinating with each other to do as much damage as possible to a Republican administration.
That's what the leaks damaging to national security these days are about.
The leaker and the journalist are not performing a separate function. They're members of the same subversive organization operating from within different embedded positions. It's not any more different than the atomic secrets smuggling network during the Cold War. Or any Communist espionage operation. The players may have different roles and jobs. But they're part of the same network with the same goals.
We don't have an independent and neutral journalism that acts in the public interest. Instead there are men and women who shares the same agendas in the media and government. Pretending that they are separate because they have different job titles denies the root cause of the problem.
We don't have a "leakers" problem. We have a left problem.
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Daniel Greenfield is Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. David Horowitz is a Contributing Author of the ARRA News Service
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"Leaks are concerning because leaks can often compromise national security, but that’s the problem of the leaker not the journalist," Ryan said.
But that's an odd formulation. The journalist is an American. Compromising national security should concern him. If it doesn't, should he concern us?
The leakers and the journalists are not really separate classes. The old formula where the government employee reveals something to a journalist has given way to members of the opposition party in the media and the government coordinating with each other to do as much damage as possible to a Republican administration.
That's what the leaks damaging to national security these days are about.
The leaker and the journalist are not performing a separate function. They're members of the same subversive organization operating from within different embedded positions. It's not any more different than the atomic secrets smuggling network during the Cold War. Or any Communist espionage operation. The players may have different roles and jobs. But they're part of the same network with the same goals.
We don't have an independent and neutral journalism that acts in the public interest. Instead there are men and women who shares the same agendas in the media and government. Pretending that they are separate because they have different job titles denies the root cause of the problem.
We don't have a "leakers" problem. We have a left problem.
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Daniel Greenfield is Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. David Horowitz is a Contributing Author of the ARRA News Service
Tags: Daniel Greenfield, FrontPage Mag, Leakers Problem, Left Problem To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and "Like" Facebook Page - Thanks!
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