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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Hasn't He Suffered Enough?..No.

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The biggest failure of the Obama administration has been on civil liberties; in particular the prosecution of leakers.   Pvt. Chelsea Manning is rotting in jail, Edward Snowden is in exile, and former CIA agent and torture whistle blower John Kiriakou spent 30 months in jail.  So what happens when former CIA director and four star general David Petraeus allegedly leaks classified information to his biographer with whom he was having an affair?  Senators from both sides of the isle come to his defense.