A Leak in Everything, That’s How the Light Gets In
A tip of the hat toward Leonard Cohen for his line, “There is a crack, a crack in everything, That’s how the light gets in.” Leonard writes of many truths and that is among the great ones.
But it applies to the current spate of corporate and governmental leaks and leakers, over which there seems to be such energetic controversy. The president is in a twit, the CIA tearing itself apart and the Department of Justice continues to unjustly threaten, Alberto Gonzales clawing his way back to 1918 to dust off arcane supporting legislation. The Attorney General cherry-picks later laws, ducking inconvenient judicial opinion to accommodate a lawless president.
It’s an age-old profession, turning in the boss. But we are seldom personally allied with the turners-in, because most of us are fully booked by the day-to-day responsibilities of our own lives and jobs. It’s not so easy to know (let alone understand) what goes on within the inner-sanctum of government or the ‘corporate floor’ of a Fortune …