The "End Game Continues"
How often on a TV show,
or in a movie, when a crime is committed in the big city do the cops seek out
their contacts in the communities involved, or even in the underworld, to help
solve the crime? Informants are usually
available to help, sometimes out of the goodness of their hearts, and sometimes
in the hope of, or in gratitude for, lenient treatment for their past and
possible future transgressions or those of close relatives.
And this extends to the national scene as well, where our intelligence
and counter-intelligence operations depend upon the confidentiality of similar
informants to protect our national security.
The President of the
United States, for reasons unknown but becoming increasingly and suspiciously
incredulous, when made fearful by the proximity of such informants, is
attempting to demand their identity in order to weaken the efforts of our law
enforcement agencies to use them to protect our national security. It is a case where those fearful of being
accused of breaking the law, accuse the law enforcers themselves of breaking
the law in doing their duty. This is the
last defense of the guilty.
Just as his gullible
followers, he claims, would still be loyal to him if he shot someone in the middle
of Fifth Avenue, they are blind to The President’s disregard and disrespect for
the intelligence and law enforcement communities, as personified by the
Department of Justice and the FBI, and his profound ignorance of the roles of
the institutions of our government.
Listening to our President
and his supporters on this issue, we are reminded of a lesson attributed to
many great teachers of the law, “When the law is on your side, hammer home the
law. When the facts are on your side,
hammer home the facts. When neither is
on your side, hammer the table vigorously.”
The facts and the law will ultimately triumph and this entire disgraceful
administration will be long remembered for serving to remind Americans of the
continued need to fight for and to protect their government’s institutions. Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.
Appropriate to these
thoughts are the concluding words of the second, not often sung, stanza of
“America the Beautiful”: “America, America! God
mend thine every flaw, Confirm they soul with self-control, Thy liberty in law!”
Jack Lippman
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