Newsweek should be forced to put a donkey on their cover. First to show that they are the communications arm of the Democrat party and second to show that most of their writers and editors are jackasses.
Alberto "What's Immigration Law?" Gonzales won't have the stones to do what is right, so don't get your hopes up. We will continue to bear this endless stream of left-wing treason until a US city gets nuked.
The author is absolutely right.
All those involved in revealing this information should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Revealing national security information is a felony.
I also read, that President Bush met with the Chief editor and other high level of executives of the NYT, imploring them to NOT publish this information, because of its impact on National Security, and they did it anyway.
They should all be tried for treason.
In a real war, these traitor/saboteurs could be dealt with appropriately.
A good start would be to subpoena the reporters and editors concerned and jail them until they reveal their sources.
The sources should be fired and tried for violating the oaths they took when they got their security clearances.
I doubt whether it's practicable to try anyone for treason at this point, but they can still lose their jobs and spend a few years in jail for breaking the law.
This article makes exactly the point I have been making. The entire press has been saying that people must be punished for the minor crime of leaking about Plame. Or perhaps no crime at all, since she was outed many years before, and didn't have the right job description to make it a crime to reveal it.
Now that a major crime has been committed, it should be punished. If the administration fails to do it, they will as good as say that they will not enforce our secrecy laws. These leakers are not stupid. They see repeatedly that they can get away with it without any consequences, so they will continue to do it.
For the sake of our country's security if not to protect the administration from more similar attacks, Bush must act. It is his duty to do so, and there has never been a better time.
I think a firing squad would fix the leak problem right up.
While President Bush is Protecting America, the DNC is Protecting Al Queda!
The Risen and Leaktbaugh should answer two questions: Cigarette? Blindfold?
Merry Christmas to Our Victorious Troops
Americans - even the majority who do not use blogs or other web news and opinion sources as part of their current events information - will eventually understand the reality of Article II of the Constitution. They will understand the presidential duty to defend the nation by gathering foreign intelligence even if it involves citizens. They will learn about Carter, Reagan, and Clinton and how those presidents tapped communications links and how Clinton even broke into a citizen's residence to seize documents and other proof of spying, without a warrant!
Congress has approval ratings half that of the president (heh!). People do not want Congress to control foreign affairs (it's too slow and leaky) and will resent its interference in the Constituionally-mandated duties of the president. The more vocal Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi become, the more the citizens will realize their criticisms are not made to protect our rights. More and more Americans will see that Democrats simply want to gain power and are willing to do anything to get it, even weakening the country and exposing it to more attacks!
Another Rovian Storm, swamping the contemporary liberal-leftist dinghy of the Democrat Party. Yes.
I am about ready to hand over national security to the NYT since they are sooo good at it.--with the provision that a with every terrorist attack, another employee with the times be electrocuted, starting at the top with the head loonies.
A hypothetical for you. Imagine there has been wrongdoing by people in power in this country, imagine there are witnesses to that crime who wish to report it to the FBI. The wrongdoers, having knowledge of this, proceed to call out the agency under discussion and interecept their communications, all in the name of national security. Smacks of tyrany to me. Lest we forget Richard Nixon.
Until someone is brought up on charges of treason, the leaks will never cease.