Classified information in Washington is more or less currency, to be used by politicians. This phenomenon of selectively revealing secrets is of course is not limited to Washington. Anywhere people congregate and vie for power there will always be the manipulation of information for selfish interests. Machiavelli is still a household name in politics over 400 years later for a reason. Leaks can be made to denigrate the opposition, place blame or simply shift media focus onto some other story du jour. If that is the intention of the leakers of late, with the stories about CIA flights, government wire taps and now the radiation surveillance program, they should start thinking twice about hurting the Bush administration with this information. The most recent leaked story which should help to propel the Bush approval ratings higher was printed in U.S. News and World Report Friday. An exclusive headline blared that the government was monitoring for radiation near Muslim sites without a...(Read Full Post)