Former Ambassador Ann Wright: "British government is leaking like a sieve"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.iconoclast-texas.com/News/2005/31-40/31news02.htm

AUSTIN — The former ambassador to Afghanistan, Ann Wright, called on U.S. federal employees to leak more secret memos on the lead-up to the war in Iraq like Downing Street memos uncovered by the British press this last May.

“It seems like the British government is leaking like a sieve. We need to get our own U.S. government colleagues to be leaking like a sieve,” said Wright, who gave up her career in the foreign service because she disagreed with the U.S. invasion of Iraq. “We need more documents — certainly not documents that are really going to jeopardize the security of the United States — but documents that show the sequence of events within our own government.”

Wright said that many federal employees disagree with the policies of the current administration but stay involved for a host of reasons, one of which more often than not is that they have mouths to feed. A closer look of the major U.S. newspapers, however, shows that those discouraged officials inside the government are sending signals of hope to the American people, she said.

“It’s important that we encourage our colleagues in the U.S. federal government to think really seriously about the future of our country and to inform their conscience and look to see if they can find the equivalent memos that we have in our United States government,” said Wright. “So if you have any colleagues, cousins, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, sons or daughters that are working in whatever level of government, talk to them. Just casually mention it. You never can tell.” Wright’s remarks were made at a house party sponsored by CodePink Austin, one of over 300 events on the July 23-24 weekend that marked the third anniversary of the Downing Street Memos’ existence.

[Doctor_J]

1. Your headline is misleading

it doesn't match the quote from the ambassador.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

5. Oooops...you're right. I just fixed it.

Thanks.

:toast:

[Missy M]

2. If more people in government thought like Ann Wright......

bush, Cheney and their cohorts wouldn't be able to get away with what they have done and where they are heading. I would like to beg the employees of the US Federal Government to speak out if they know something and let the world know the truth.

[indepat]

3. If only a few more good men and women would come to the aid of their

country in its time of desperate need.

[achtung_circus]

4. Definition:

public service

n 1: a service that is performed for the benefit of the public or its institutions 2: employment within a government system (especially in the civil service)


Please use as broad a definition as possible. Public service in the service of a political party or agenda is not service and is not public.