Murray Waas Supports Mac Ranger (Leak-gate)

The Strata-Sphere ^ | April 26th, 2006 | AJStrata

[Lancey Howard]

What is fun about the liberal media is they tend to let things slip when they do all that spinning and propagandizing. Murray Waas at National Journal has lots of failed theories and predictions to his name. But his reporting does uncover facts which, when looked at objectively, tell the true story.

In today’s rant about CIA leaker McCarthy, Waas has a quote from NY Times Editor confirming the scope and pressure of the leak investigation Mac Ranger has been relating from his sources:

In a response to questions for this article, Times Editor Bill Keller said in an e-mail that he believed the Bush White House is on a campaign to intimidate the press. “I’m not sure journalists fully appreciate the threat confronting us,” Keller wrote. “The Times in the eavesdropping case, the Post for its CIA prison stories, and everyone else who has tried to look behind the war on terror.”

[Lancey Howard]

(New York) Times Editor Bill Keller said in an e-mail that he believed the Bush White House is on a campaign to intimidate the press. “I’m not sure journalists fully appreciate the threat confronting us,” Keller wrote. “The Times in the eavesdropping case, the Post for its CIA prison stories, and everyone else who has tried to look behind the war on terror.”

Keller sounds downright paranoid.
Since that mouse has taken over, the NY Times has only gotten worse. I didn't think it was possible, but there you go....

[Lancey Howard]

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[Lancey Howard]

I find it amusing that Keller equates a house-cleaning at the CIA as an effort by the Bush Administration to "intimidate the press".

[Darkwolf377]

Where do you find the truth in the media these days?

[Prost1]

"Where do you find the truth in the media these days?"

Free Republic is a form of the NEW MEDIA.

I used to have a tagline that went: "I get my news are Free Republic".

It still works!

[Darkwolf377]

But FR isn't a media outlet, it reports stories from other media outlets. My point is, we say we don't trust AP, Reuters, etc., but they're the sources where we get this info on FR.

[Prost1]

Point taken. I guess we need government employees to LEAK on FR. That would make FR a news outlet!

[Boundless]

> But FR isn't a media outlet, it reports stories from
> other media outlets.

Not so. The jveritas pre-war doc translations are
breaking here.

The NYC container ship grounding last week broke here
(but got cleared up before the Legacy Media even
heard about it).

FR is at least as much of a media outlet as Drudge
used to be.

Most of the Domestic Enemy Press just parrots AP
and Reuters wires anyway.

[Darkwolf377]

Not so. The jveritas pre-war doc translations are breaking here. The NYC container ship grounding last week broke here (but got cleared up before the Legacy Media even heard about it).

Two stories per week? That's a distinction without a difference considering the hundreds of stories poster per-day.

FR is at least as much of a media outlet as Drudge used to be.

I can't recall FR breaking many such high-profile stories as Drudge used to.

Most of the Domestic Enemy Press just parrots AP and Reuters wires anyway.

That's my point--all of that stuff makes up 99% of what's here--which is why I wondered why AP and Reuters stuff being posted here is somehow more truthful.

[Nita Nupress]

Murray Waas, of all people. What a hypocritical Clymer. He himself was the recipient of a 20,000-page CIA "document dump"in 1998 - a leak from someone inside the CIA who thought Clinton's foreign intelligence policy was dangerous to the country and should be exposed.

Murray, while you're ranting and raving about how McCarthy's "legitimate and even inadvertent contacts with journalists" (yes, he actually said that), why don't we revisit your own CIA leaker?

"Waas" up?! Where are those 20,000 CIA documents? ^

Posted by Nita Nupress On News/Activism ^ 08/22/2005 5:47:05 AM CDT · 60 replies · 3,545+ views The Black Hole of Cyberspace | TUE NOV 24 1998 | Matt Drudge DRUDGE REPORTTUE NOV 24 1998 23:52:09 UTC WHITE HOUSE PANIC; MASSIVE LEAK OF NATIONAL SECURITY DOCUMENTS **World Exclusive* WASHINGTON -- The Clinton administration is facing the most massive leak of classified foreign policy documents since the publication of the Pentagon papers more than two decades ago during the Vietnam war, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. "The impeachment proceedings are going to have seemed like a picnic, before we get though with this," said one White House official. The papers, totaling more than 20,000 pages, according to sources who have read them, include a history of the secret negotiations between the U.S. and North Korea, describing the failed policy of trying to buy off North Korea to forego its nuclear weapons policy. They describe in great detail the intelligence and policy failures that led to the detonations of nuclear weapons by India and Pakistan this year. Most embarrassing, the papers appear to corroborate, according to sources who have read them, allegations by a former U.N. arms inspector that the Clinton administration concealed from Congress and the public details regarding Saddam Hussein's ambitious program to develop nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. The papers also reveal new details on the Clinton policy towards China in which the White House allowed ballistic missile technology exports to China at the behest of wealthy Democratic campaign contributors. News of the massive leak of classified foreign policy documents caught senior White House officials by surprise on the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend... MORE Two Washington newspaper editors have reviewed the papers, which have been obtained by left-wing reporter Murray Waas. Waas has been holding the documents close, according to one media insider. Some in Washington speculate that Waas does not want to write a major expose about the Clinton administration in the midst of the impeachment hearings, fueling the flames for conservatives. The new leaks appear to be indicative of deep dissatisfaction within the foreign policy establishment regarding Clinton policies. There have been other unprecedented leaks as well: most notably, a James Risen story in the NEW YORK TIMES earlier this week about the disregarding of a CIA assessment of Russian corruption by Vice President Al Gore. Some see an organized attempt by dissidents to discredit the Clinton foreign policy. Ironically, the Clinton White House might have a hard time attacking one of their favorite reporters: During the 1992 presidential campaign, both Clinton and Gore often praised Waas exclusives exposing the Bush administration's Iraq policy, which involved the leaks of thousands of pages of classified papers regarding the Gulf war. "

Murray, you were all over the Valerie Plame leak. Now you're all over the Mary McCarthy leak case. How quaint.

Where were your public calls for 'justice-for-leakers' back in 1998 when someone in the CIA gave you an early Christmas present? After all, your own CIA leaker was obviously someone who was against your boy Clinton (and obviously didn't realize you were a Clinton sycophant). Why didn't you pursue that case? And where is your own CIA leaker now? What ever happened to him or her?

Didn't you think your leaker should have been held accountable? Since you defended Clinton throughout his eight long years of criminal activity, it seems like you would have loved to see your CIA leaker go down for leaking incriminating evidence. No? At the very least, shouldn't your CIA leaker have lost his or her big, fat CIA pension? Where were your calls for legal prosecution?

More importantly, Murray, where are those 20,000 CIA documents now?

[Nita Nupress]

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