Posted on 01/09/2006 12:10:55 PM PST by smoothsailing
Sen. Jay Rockefeller a Target?
January 9,2006
By Clarice Feldman
Macsmind is reporting that Sen. Rockefeller may be the target of investigators examining the leak of classified information on the NSA surveillance program:
"I'm trying to confirm this information, but several sources are telling me today that some investigators working on the NSA leak probe believe that Senator Jay Rockefeller may have been a little more than "concerned" about NSA. In fact, he may just be the leaker of the program to the NY Times, and is now being considered a "significant person of interest" in the probe.
What I'm told that investigatiors have locked into is this fact that other pundits have identified, that Senator Rockefeller had stated that he went to to great lengths to lock away his memo of concern (in a safe) so that not even other close members of the Senate knew about it. Yet the NY Times, James Risen in fact revealed the letter's existance in his initial NSA "book excerpt".
The question being asked is if not even Senator Rockefeller's closest confidants, staffers, etc, knew of the letter's existance, how therefore did James Risen of the NY Times know about it?
If this incoming information is correct, it would not be the first time Senator Rockefeller – Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee had been investigated for leaking classified information. In early 2005, the CIA asked the Justice Department to look into whether Democratic Senators Dick Durbin, Jay Rockefeller and Ron Wyden leaked details about a secret "black ops" CIA satellite program in December of 2004. That investigation is still on going, but I hear it may be wrapping up in the affirmative.
Moreover, it may be noted that Senator Rockefeller admitted back in November 2005, that he also made a trip to Syria in 2002 to discuss "The President's intentions" reference to the upcoming invasion of Iraq. A move which I understand didn't sit well with administration officials.
Of course Senator Rockefeller is the architect of the current Demorcatic game plan on Iraq as the infamous "Rockefeller Memo" showed.
If this information is acurate, it will also confirm the suspicions voiced here, and here after the NSA story broke that in fact Senator Rockefeller, along with recently 'resigned" FISA Judge James Robertson – an outspoken critic of the President and the NSA program.
Stay tuned…"
"You are free to use any methods necessary...but I want (him) alive. NO DISINTEGRATIONS."
"He will not be permanently damaged."
Jay Leakefeller
I believe he got his security clearance knocked down a month or so ago over this propensity.
Does this suprise anyone? November 6, 2003 the vaulted senator made a bad and illegal move.
Hehehehe! This will be interesting...
Thanks for the ping or I'd have surely missed this today.
I guess in lieu of condolences Byrd is demanding an investigation, so says foxnews.
Let's hope the rumor becomes fact!
bump
While it seems de facto anymore, I am pretty sure that is not the case for treason in the books.
Hmmm, could the democrat party have a culture of treason problem???
It seems to be more of a communicable disease, one that democrats are at high risk of succumbing to. There appears to be no reliable cure short of hanging.
Fortunately, most all common sense folks have powerful anti-bodies that block the debilitating affliction.
bttt
I kept asking, sarcastically, where's Senator Byrd? He wasn't seen or heard during the mining crisis. Finally today, Byrd makes a noise:
"Posted on Mon, Jan. 09, 2006
Byrd wants open hearings into Sago Mine explosion
Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Officials from the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration will be called before a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing before the end of the month to testify about the agency's response to the Sago Mine disaster, West Virginia Sen. Robert C. Byrd said Monday.
"The families of the Sago miners deserve to know what happened in that mine. Just as importantly, miners and their families across this country want to know that steps are being taken to prevent others from ever experiencing such pain," Byrd said in a statement released by his office.
Spokesman Tom Gavin said Byrd wants to know why it took so long to get a backup rescue team on the ground after an initial team arrived at the mine, and why MSHA was apparently not more involved in the immediate hours after the explosion.
Last week, 12 miners died following an explosion at the International Coal Group Inc.'s Sago Mine near Tallmansville. The surviving miner, Randal McCloy Jr., remains hospitalized in Morgantown.
Byrd, the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, is working with Sens. Tom Harkin of Iowa, and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, to set a date for the hearings, Gavin said.
Specter is chairman of the committee's Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies, which has jurisdiction over MSHA. Harkin is the top Democrat on the subcommittee.
Byrd also would support MSHA holding public hearings as it investigates the mine disaster, Gavin said.
The senator believes "that people should have a chance to hear for themselves what the investigation results are," he said."
Oh what fun if Rockefeller is implicated in the Risen/NSA link
The appeasement party.
Absolutely nothing will happen to this DemonRAT traitor, unlike the unforgivable sins committed by "Party of Corruption" Trent Lott and Tom DeLay.
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