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White House Trains Efforts on Media Leaks. Sources, Reporters Could Be Prosecuted
WP ^ | march 5, 2006 | Dan Eggen

Posted on 03/04/2006 9:27:25 PM PST by FairOpinion

The Bush administration, seeking to limit leaks of classified information, has launched initiatives targeting journalists and their possible government sources. The efforts include several FBI probes, a polygraph investigation inside the CIA and a warning from the Justice Department that reporters could be prosecuted under espionage laws.

In recent weeks, dozens of employees at the CIA, the National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies have been interviewed by agents from the FBI's Washington field office, who are investigating possible leaks that led to reports about secret CIA prisons and the NSA's warrantless domestic surveillance program, according to law enforcement and intelligence officials familiar with the two cases.

The Justice Department also argued in a court filing last month that reporters can be prosecuted under the 1917 Espionage Act for receiving and publishing classified information. The brief was filed in support of a case against two pro-Israeli lobbyists, who are the first nongovernment officials to be prosecuted for receiving and distributing classified information.

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It's about time!

I hope they won't back off from this.

1 posted on 03/04/2006 9:27:29 PM PST by FairOpinion
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To: FairOpinion

Full speed ahead I just hope they het tried for Treason !


2 posted on 03/04/2006 9:30:33 PM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK (The Death Penalty isn't for making examples it's for making bad people DEAD!)
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To: FairOpinion

This is one of the reasons the heat has been on the WH. The rats are trying to make them back down. I hope the WH presses on and slams these guys good.


3 posted on 03/04/2006 9:32:17 PM PST by DarthVader (Conservatives aren't always right , but Liberals are almost always wrong.)
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To: FairOpinion

II hope so also.


4 posted on 03/04/2006 9:35:07 PM PST by antceecee (Reagan Democrat and now a Bush Republican...)
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To: FairOpinion
The New York Times was repeatedly asked not to publish info on the NSA program. They knew the material was classified; they knew the program was important to national security; they knew they didn't have the right to have the information or the authority to declassify it; and they knew publishing it would communicate the sensitive information to the enemies of the United States. The reporter included the material in a book which he intended to personally profit from knowing that it would expose secrets that the US was spending a fortune to protect. If those Americans go to the slammer for providing the information to a friendly power (Israel) why should those that gave Top Secret Compartmentalized information stay out of jail?
5 posted on 03/04/2006 9:35:57 PM PST by airedale ( XZ)
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To: DarthVader

I get this feeling that Alberto Gonzales is a good attack dog and a close friend of Bush....I think Alberto is fed up with the liberal mantra and will do what is needed to get the MSN to realize the struggle we are up against. No prisoners this time.


6 posted on 03/04/2006 9:36:56 PM PST by skimask (Ezekiel: 25/17)
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To: skimask

You are right. Bush is letting loose the dogs of war.


7 posted on 03/04/2006 9:40:33 PM PST by DarthVader (Conservatives aren't always right , but Liberals are almost always wrong.)
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To: FairOpinion

I agree, about time. But the loonies will start screeching freedom of speech...yet again.

Average citizen will hear on MSM that Bush is trying to take away our rights......
Morons.


8 posted on 03/04/2006 9:41:23 PM PST by Shortstop7
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To: DarthVader

"Bush is letting loose the dogs of war."


And it's high time.

These leaks, such as about the NSA wiretapping of terrorists, DO indeed jeopardize national security. Definitely past time to stop that, with whatever drastic measures are necessary.


9 posted on 03/04/2006 9:42:59 PM PST by FairOpinion (Real Conservatives do NOT help Dems get elected.)
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To: FairOpinion
The Justice Department also argued in a court filing last month that reporters can be prosecuted under the 1917 Espionage Act

Interesting ....

10 posted on 03/04/2006 9:43:17 PM PST by TeleStraightShooter (The Right To Take Life is NOT a Constitutional "Liberty" protected by the 14th Amendment)
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To: FairOpinion

Great news and I hope it happens. They won't have to prosecute and jail too many "journalists" before they'll get the message, jail is not fun.


11 posted on 03/04/2006 9:43:24 PM PST by jazusamo (:Gregory was riled while Hume smiled:)
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To: FairOpinion

Bush has been too timid with his adversaries in the past. I hope he goes for the jugular now.


12 posted on 03/04/2006 9:44:26 PM PST by umgud (gitrdun)
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To: FairOpinion
Charge and jail the traitors! There is personal responsibility to freedom. You cannot yell FIRE in a theater; they are causing GI's to die; hang those who are at fault: if you dare!
13 posted on 03/04/2006 9:44:30 PM PST by olinr
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To: Shortstop7

Freedom of speech doesn't apply to revealing highly classified information that endangers national security.

There are already laws on the books against that, with long, long jail terms, they just haven't been enforcing it, when it applied to journalists and members of Congress.


14 posted on 03/04/2006 9:44:33 PM PST by FairOpinion (Real Conservatives do NOT help Dems get elected.)
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To: FairOpinion
The proverbial "money quote:"

"There's a tone of gleeful relish in the way they talk about dragging reporters before grand juries, their appetite for withholding information, and the hints that reporters who look too hard into the public's business risk being branded traitors," said New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller, in a statement responding to questions from The Washington Post. "I don't know how far action will follow rhetoric, but some days it sounds like the administration is declaring war at home on the values it professes to be promoting abroad."

Can you believe the unmitigated GALL of that guy?

15 posted on 03/04/2006 9:44:35 PM PST by Howlin ("Quick, he's bleeding! Is there a <strike>doctor</strike> reporter in the house?")
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To: FairOpinion

your link is rather ... dead.


16 posted on 03/04/2006 9:46:01 PM PST by TeleStraightShooter (The Right To Take Life is NOT a Constitutional "Liberty" protected by the 14th Amendment)
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To: airedale
Read full article here The Espionage Act makes it a crime for a government official with access to "national defense information" to communicate it intentionally to any unauthorized person. A 1950 amendment aimed at Soviet spying broadened the law, forbidding an unauthorized recipient of the information to pass it on, or even to keep it to himself.

(WaPo down right now while posting)

17 posted on 03/04/2006 9:46:10 PM PST by p23185
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To: FairOpinion

Sounds too good to be true. I hope I'm wrong.


18 posted on 03/04/2006 9:48:09 PM PST by Dont Mention the War (This tagline is false.)
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To: TeleStraightShooter

It seems like the Washington Post website is down.

I tried to just go to their main page, and that didn't work either.


19 posted on 03/04/2006 9:48:54 PM PST by FairOpinion (Real Conservatives do NOT help Dems get elected.)
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To: jazusamo

All they have to do is squeeze one or two real hard and those liberals will give up their mothers to save their asses. They are gutless cowards. The "Enlightened one's" my a@@@


20 posted on 03/04/2006 9:49:49 PM PST by skimask (Ezekiel: 25/17)
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