It seems like more information has been leaked to the press during the Bush presidency than any other. Powerline notes that this basically boils down to guerilla warfare being waged by career bureaucrats who resent their bosses asserting themselves and implementing the policies of the elected President - that guy who was actually elected by over 60 million people to his job.

In his interview with Katie Couric earlier this week, James Risen sympathetically described the motives of the "nearly a dozen" leakers who discussed the NSA program with him roughly as follows:

"The checks and balances that normally keep American foreign policy and national security policy toward the center kind of broke down. You had more of a radicalization, in which the career professionals were not really given a chance to forge a consensus within the administration. The principals -- Rumsfeld, Cheney Tenet and Rice -- were meeting constantly, setting policy and never allowing the experts, the people who understand the region to have a say."

According to Risen and his sources, national security policy is to be set by "career professionals" rather than by the elected and appointed officials to whom he refers. When the elcted and appointed officials assert the prerogatives of their office, "career professionals" will take the law into their hands and work together with the New York Times to set things right.

These so-called "whislteblowers," of course could go to Congress instead of the press with their concerns. That they chose the NY Times instead shows that their motives were partisan and not principled. These insurgents, seeking to undermine the government, are certainly more sophisticated and subtle than those in Iraq. The motives, to topple a government and replace it with one more to their liking all without the inconvenience of winning elections, are the same.

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