PROOF THAT THE MSM-BUREAUCRACY COMPLEX HAS SUBVERTED OUR DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED GOVERNMENT'S NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY

For most people, something's a scandal only if the newspapers make it one. On the matter below they have averted their eyes. Except The NY Sun (excerpt below); it's the only paper to have mentioned the matter -- although the blogosphere has known of it for years:

"That was quite a scoop yesterday by our Josh Gerstein in respect of how the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in its investigations of leaks of our national secrets, has been stonewalled by none other than agencies of America's own government. The disclosures on which Mr. Gerstein reports came in response to litigation Mr. Gerstein filed under the Freedom of Information Act.

He obtained FBI documents indicating that our intelligence agencies have been "uncooperative" in investigating leaks. The FBI documents refer to unreturned phone calls, cancelled meetings that weren't rescheduled, and the concern that lawyers from the agency whose information was leaked would "stonewall." And it looks like cases were dropped rather than force government officials and agencies to cooperate with the investigation and produce evidence.....

All this underscores the likelihood that we have had agencies of the American government breaking the law to defeat a military campaign into which the American Congress, by an overwhelming vote, sent our GIs. These implications were sensed immediately by the blogosphere, where Powerlineblog.com lit up on Mr. Gerstein's story at the crack of dawn, and on the airwaves, where Rush Limbaugh devoted part of his broadcast to Mr. Gerstein's story.

Said Mr. Limbaugh, "It's become more and more obvious that there is a symbiotic relationship between these agencies - we're talking about State, we're talking about the Pentagon, CIA - there's a symbiotic relationship between these agencies and the drive-by media now, and they're not going to let an election get in their way . They've got their own agendas. . If they have to destroy the policies of a particular administration, they'll do it via leaks, and then when these criminal leaks are investigated, they don't participate."

Relipaundit adds: An MSM/bureaucratic complex - which is dominated by "realists" and Leftists (who want the USA to be chastised and humbled and brought under transnational organizations like the UN) - is not unique to the USA; Brace Bawer detailed in his book how it is a much worse problem in Europe. And this problem - the lack of political diversity, and the resultant existence of political networks within institutions naively regarded as apolitical - also encompasses the Humanities departments at most major universities. This lack of political diversity has made all of these institutions a virtual Fifth Column. They have been a Fifth Column here in the USA since at least WW2. Nixon knew that State was a rogue bureaucracy, but never got the chance to remake it - they and the CIA and the FBI saw to that!

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