Back Stabber Found
Whose back are these leakers stabbing?
Posted on 03/13/2002 8:16:11 AM PST by Naspino
Whose back are these leakers stabbing?
Besides, everyone knows the dead are more reliable voters!
Of course not; but the difference was that a spine-less twit was president for 8 years. No one had to worry about American resolve before.
Gee, who'd ever suspect proud San Francisco Bay Area politician-Americans like them? But there's a huge field to pick from. I'm in favor of bamboo splinters under Brownstein's fingernails -- and I'm an ex-reporter who understands protecting sources. But not in wartime. The fact that Daniel Ellsberg is still walking around free after his Pentagon Papers sedition disillusioned me with the American media forever.
His resume is impeccible when he personally got to the bottom of the problems at Los Alamos, and corrected them.
Not!
Yes he does.Feinstein and/or Levin are my guess too.
That's the problem. We need someone with access to the document, a motive to leak said document, and an opportunity to either leak it to the Los Angeles Times or to provide the document to someone who would leak it to said news outlet.
The person with the highest potential for access is Carl Levin of Michigan. He chairs Armed Services in addition to serving on the Intelligence Committee. Problem is, Bush is doing well in Michigan, of all aplaces, so it wouldn't help Levin to leak it in an election year - especially when he is up for re-election.
The person with the motive to see this document leaked is Daschle, and he might have access. But where is the opportunity?
Feinstein has access due to her position on the Intelligence Committee, and opportunity, being from California, and someone who would normally be seen talking to a reporter from the L.A. Times, but I don't see her as having the motive.
It's going to be hard to figure out, IMHO. But we should, and until it is figured out, Congress doesn't get directions to the crapper from ANYONE in DOD.
You may be right -- I think there should be a VERY PUBLIC statement. Anyone that leaks DOD confidential documents will be arrested for treason. PERIOD. No one can claim ignorance.
Whose office leaked this report??
Therefore, when the ABC islands (Aruba/Bonaire/Curacuao) declare war on us, the Joint Chiefs can reach into the file cabinet and pull out our response/attack/defense plan instead of running around asking everyone what they're going to do. I'm sure their are similar plans in there for everyone, even those that are currently our allies, such as England.
Naturally, plans such as this would be classified, one wouldn't want tomorrows enemy to know our war plan for action against them. Anyone who's ever held a security classification from the military has gotten the lecture about what happens to you if you give out secret/classified information, expect to spend a lot of time making small rocks out of big ones.
The main problem here, and not just in the leaking of secure material, is today we have a class of people who believe that they are better than everyone else, and therefore they don't have to obey the laws as the law is just for the peons. Our culture has changed to become one in which anyone with money or political power can freely violate the law as they're above it. Which is why OJ is playing golf right now instead of doing time.
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