Saturday, April 12, 2003

Media Coverage of Leung

Some of my trolls have accused me of being interested in the Leung case because I'm somehow racist. That's quite silly. Actually, I'm interested in it partially because of the racism which was behind much of the hypocritical media-driven and, yes, bigoted coverage of both the Wen Ho Lee case and the various Clinton/Gore fundraising and 'technology transfer' "scandals." The question has now been raised whether this accused double-agent, who was involved with both the head of Lawrence Livermore Labs and a key FBI player in the fundraising investigations, tainted all of these things.

As Ailes points out, the Washington Times continues the bigot angle on coverage of these things (and sexist, and downright factually incorrect) with the headline "Chinese Mata Hari ensnares ex-FBI men." Regardless of what she may have done, Ms. Leung is a naturalized American citizen, and not Chinese.

As for Porter Goss and Christopher Cox, I'm sure they're chomping at the bit in hopes that they can spin this as evidence of the corruption of the Tubesteak Messiah. But, let us hope they put their partisan and dishonest ways behind them (unlikely, given their record) and support a genuine investigation into all of Ms. Leung's involvements.

Republican operatives enabled as usual by a willing and racist media jumped on all of these scandals, reporting them with the appropriate spin. Let's hope they don't repeat their past mistakes.