The Treachery Double Standard

[Memekiller]

Here's a good one on the hypocrisy of investigating O'Neill and not the Plame leak:

THE TREACHERY OF THE DOUBLE STANDARD

BY Rodger Stevens



The rules of the road say that all traffic going one way keeps to one side of the road, and traffic going the other way uses the other side. Call it the rule of law, or call it common sense, it works. It would be chaotic for one driver to ignore this practicality and use whatever side of the road he felt like using. If everybody must be held to this standard, the arrogant use of another would be met with justified anger, honking, and probably a lot of bent fenders and gashed foreheads. Double-standards are just plain dishonest, not to mention dangerous.

Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill hit the headlines the other day interviewing about his new book "The Price of Loyalty" and saying that President Bush talked from the very outset of his tenure about 'getting Saddam.' The quotes are all over the news and the web.

Now, in record speed, Treasury is calling for an investigation on how certain unspecified documents purportedly labeled 'secret' found their way to the publishers of O'Neill's book, and to CBS News whose "60 Minutes" segment featured some of O'Neill's revelations.

From Josh Marshall's www.talkingpointmemo.com/:

--Number of days between Novak column outing Valerie Plame and announcement of

investigation: 74 days.

--Number of days between O'Neill 60 Minutes interview and announcement of investigation:

1 day.

--Having the administration reveal itself as a gaggle of hypocritical goons ... priceless.

No doubt pundits and spinners will raise all manner of frightening 'security issues' connected to the disclosure of these documents, but they probably won't mention that some of them, predating 9/11, discuss in detail how to take economic and military advantage of the ouster of the Saddam Hussein regime.