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Originally Posted by dc_dux
Career employees, including covert operatives, in the CIA have absolutely NO moral or legal responsibility or obligation to show "loyalty to the administration" In fact, good judgement would require them to do otherwise and show their loyalty solely to the Constitution and the rule of law, rather than any present or future president.
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To whom do they owe loyalty? I thought the CIA chain of command goes up to the President. If I am wrong, I will change my view.
However, I think employees owe loyalty to those higher in the chain of command. If an issue is in dispute the honorable thing to do is to seek proper recourse through available channels. Using your husband (speculation on my part) is not proper in my view. Using the media is not proper in my view. When I have had major disputes with my superiors in employment situations , I went up the ladder or resigned.
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I thought about this some more. I think you help define how a person will see the Plame issue. In general it boils down to the qestion of loyalty. Those who answer the loyalty question as you do compared to those who answer the loyalty question as I do. In my view what the administration did to Plame was not nice, but it was something that needed to be done. Further, I think the administration did it in a manner within the letter of the law and gave Fitzgerald the power and freedom to investigate the matter and bring it to trial if needed to further emphasize the point the Administration was sending.