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I was too harsh on Randi Rhodes

Submitted July 21, 2005 - 11:12 am by Sean Donahue
I stand by the central arguement of this piece, but I definitely was too harsh on Randi Rhodes.

Rhodes has been out there on the airwaves for months talking about the CIA torture scandal, about the war, and about John Negroponte's dark history with the Honduran death squads.

I think she's taking the wrong position and the wrong angle on this issue, but she definitely is no apologist for the CIA.  

That said, there definitely are a lot of liberals, including many in Congress and a lot of pundits who are praising and defending the CIA, and that is frightening and dangerous to me.  The enemies of our enemies are not necessarily our friends.  And I think that while we should be pressing for Rove and his buddies to be indicted as accessories to war crimes, we need to oppose Rove's prossecution for outing Valerie Plame, because the law he is accused of breaking is a bad law designed to protect the secrecy of a fundamentaly evil agency.

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