Correct Right Moral Legal
Never in my life, I ever thought I will sit down and try to figure out difference between the words mentioned in the title. They seemed so close to me for the duration of my familiarity with english language, I didn't even bother to see them as different words. Now I came across a situation where I am forced to understand the fine difference between each of them.
The recent firing of a senior CIA analyst for revealing the secret prison, started my thinking on these words.
First CIA was correct in firing the employee, because she violated the terms of her contract. Any person who violates the terms of his/her employment deserves to be fired, there can be no two ways about it.
But the question that arises is it illegal , former Chief Justice once observed from the bench "just because it is legal doesn't make it correct", my opinion is just because the CIA made a correct decision, I don't think the employee has done anything illegal as defined by law. The law says it is illegal (therefore a crime ) if the employee had helped an enemy, which is not the case here (despite the claims by the government that it has affected the war on terror), she just made something public to American public, which means if she is tried for a crime, only her conduct will be tested by a jury. The instruction to the jury will be whether the conduct of the analyst fails to meet the standards of the society. I think no jury will convict her for this conduct.
The fact that a Pulitzer prize was awarded for this story means that there is a large section of the society, which feels that the action of the analyst is right in making the information about the secret prisons public.
American concept of freedom, liberty, due process under law and human rights, doesn't go along with the operation of GULAGS, despicable Soviet concept, of holding people in secret location, so anybody with a knowledge that such an amoral activity, had a duty to blow the whistle.
So my analysis of the CIA analyst firing is bit complex, while acton of the CIA is correct, analyst's action is moral, her decision is right according to a large section of society and I doubt whether her action can be proved to be illlegal
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