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I see nothing wrong with what she did. The police should not get any special treatment. If it can happen to us it can happen to them. If the info is out there then too bad he should not have posted it.

This is just like the police not wanting to be recorded while in the performance of their jobs. The court case was obviously not a closed case so anyone could see who he was at the courthouse and then followed up with a search. Police should have to live with the same rules and laws as us citizens.

If you are grounding your reply and your opinion alone, then it is obviously just as valid as my opinion. But if your suggestion is that there is a constitutional right to out an undercover police agent performing his duties, I strongly disagree.

There is no constitutional right to out a CIA agent in the performance of her duties and most of us would agree that it is absolutely necessary for the furtherance of our national security to maintain secrecy at that and other levels. To the degree that a narcotics undercover officer is operating lawfully (not desirably but lawfully) he should be in the same category.

If it is your opinion that he ought not to enjoy protection against being outed in the performance of his duties, I suggest that the way to change that is in the polling booth not on twitter. If your opinion is based on the futility of our war on drugs which more and more is inevitably leading to intrusions into privacy and converting citizens into enemies of the government, I would agree with you and I will walk with you to the polling place.

If you are grounding your reply and your opinion alone, then it is obviously just as valid as my opinion. But if your suggestion is that there is a constitutional right to out an undercover police agent performing his duties, I strongly disagree.

There is no constitutional right to out a CIA agent in the performance of her duties and most of us would agree that it is absolutely necessary for the furtherance of our national security to maintain secrecy at that and other levels. To the degree that a narcotics undercover officer is operating lawfully (not desirably but lawfully) he should be in the same category.

If it is your opinion that he ought not to enjoy protection against being outed in the performance of his duties, I suggest that the way to change that is in the polling booth not on twitter. If your opinion is based on the futility of our war on drugs which more and more is inevitably leading to intrusions into privacy and converting citizens into enemies of the government, I would agree with you and I will walk with you to the polling place.

We should also start “outing” members of juries too. Facebook, twitter, posters in the offended gang area.

Conservatives who work for unions and the government also.

Let’s just get it all out there.

And let’s don’t forget to round up all of our conservative colleagues and our conservative students and send emails of their conservative rants on the net to their college professors.