Judge, on many subjects you are superb, but this article is the most idiotic drivel I have ever seen from you. It's a nasty world out there, and to insist that a national leader can do nothing that is not in public is handing our enemies a tremendous advantage.
If you are still listening to those in the political class who are falling over each other to condemn leaks from the government to the media, you'd think the leaks had revealed private information in which the public has no legitimate interest, or perhaps a planned secret government mission to rescue innocents. Neither is the case.
Republicans and Democrats in Congress, most of them from the House and Senate intelligence committees, have blasted the White House for leaking to The New York Times and others the existence of President Obama's secret kill list and his cyber-warfare against Iran. According to...
" It's a nasty world out there, and to insist that a national leader can do nothing that is not in public is handing our enemies a tremendous advantage."
Even if what the national leader does is illegal? If it is an impeachable offense? If it is against the letter of the Constitution? So, there's no line to draw, in your mind, because drawing one would "hand a tremendous advantage to 'our' (our?) enemies"? Is that it?