No Trace

The tax issue is important, no doubt. If Republicans end up with some kind of victory here, so much the better. I still have my doubts. In any case, the wrangling in Washington continues to provide high drama - a suitable distraction for what else may be happening that may be equally important and potentially, perhaps, even more so.

I’ve heard it said that Wikileaks amounts to nothing less than an attack on America. (Now follow me on this.) What’s our president been doing about it? Nothing. Barring the suspicion of some who say that he himself is behind it, he’s surely thinking, “How can we exploit this?” Remember, “Never let a crisis go to waste.”

Similar to Obama’s first reaction to the oil spill - to let it go on and watch how bad it can get - his reaction to Wikileaks appears calculated. (The oil spill, by the way, achieved its purpose. Nobody makes hardly a peep about Obama’s 7-year drilling ban.) Now we’re seeing reports that Wikileaks will be targeting the likes of China, Russia, Iran and Venezuela as well. Don’t you believe it! The target was and remains America. America is the one with the bulls eye painted on its hind quarters.

How so? Well, for one thing, nobody is apt to want to talk to us on the record anymore. So, what happens to the Freedom of Information Act if it is agreed that public records no longer be kept for fear of exposure? Discussions and deals between us and other nations would have to be made in secure, smoke-filled rooms and sealed with a word or handshake. No traces left of it after it’s over, no hard copy of what was discussed or agreed to, lots of deniability - in short, no accountability.

We’ll be left in the dark and guessing about what’s happening - a wildly auspicious circumstance for any self-proclaimed tyrant.

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