Is Dana Priest a Common Criminal?

contentions ^ | 8.7.2007 | Gabriel Schoenfeld

[Jaysun]

The criminals are those that provide her with classified information.

[Cyber Liberty]

No. A "common criminal" is somebody who steals hubcaps, or at worst kills a few people. Dana's doing her best to see to it that people will die by the thousands.

Pol Pot wasn't a "common criminal" either.

[Cicero]

As the article points out, freedom of the press, like the analogous attorney-client privilege, does not cover complicity in a crime, especially a major felony.

A lawyer is not obliged to rat on a client who proposes to commit a crime, I don’t believe, but he could be jailed if he agrees to participate in it.

Dana Priest, like several other reporters, has knowingly and willingly participated in outright crimes, as an accomplice or possibly as the instigator. Freedom of the press does not cover such criminal activities.

Yes, the worst criminals are the scum in the CIA, FBI, State Department, and congress who leak these sensitive classified documents and violate their oaths of office. But the reporters are complicit. They should be prosecuted and jailed until they reveal their sources at the very least.

The Justice Department understands this. But, regretably, it does nothing.

[garyhope]

Common traitor is more like it.

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[garyhope]

Common traitor is more like it.

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[rfp1234]

Is the Ayatollah Shi’ite?

[Cowboy Bob]

Her professional success depends in large part on her ability to ferret out secrets...

Isn't she the one who looks like a ferret?

[andy58-in-nh]

Good analysis. I often wonder why the Justice Department is so curiously uninterested in pursuing the sources of intelligence leaks, even those clearly detrimental to American national interests. One would imagine that a sting operation of significant proportions would not significantly tax the resources or imagination of those whose profession it is to catch bad guys.

[Phsstpok]

No, reporters who pass on classified information that they are not entitled to have (meaning everything) are guilty of a crime. The Supreme Court in the Pentagon Papers case specifically reaffirmed that position, but said the government couldn’t prosecute them for merely having the material and they couldn’t stop them from publishing it (prior restraint). It was the act of passing it to others (in the form of an article) that would be a crime. She did that. She’s a criminal and should be prosecuted as such.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Going back to Watergate, the Washington Post has always hounded Republicans but in the old days investigative reporters actually worked for a living and had some ethics. Today the Post is mostly peopled by political activists posing as reporters. Some partisan hack, pencil-pusher delivers Dana Priest classified documents on a silver platter, she puts them in the paper and wins the Pulitzer Prize at the cost of American's safety. With papers like the Post and a town full of traitorous bureaucrats, Al Qaeda will be around for a long time.

[Bernard Marx]

Today the Post is mostly peopled by political activists posing as reporters.

Gee, ya' mean that things have changed since Watergate days?

[TexasCajun]

[G Larry]

Newsflash!!

Receipt of stolen goods is also a crime!!!!!!!

[Brad from Tennessee]

Yeah. They used to have to actually work. Today they just pull “news releases” off the FAX machine from the DNC, ACLU, Green Peace, Al Qaeda, etc., put their byline at the top of the page and hand it in to the editor.

[bert]

.....But, regretably, it does nothing....

Au contraire mi amigo (a little Frogmex there)

This week an investigation began into a leaker from I believe the Department of justice, a clinton hold over who might be the leaker of FISA stuff.

[bert]

Here’s a thread about something happening

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1877711/posts

[txhurl]

Frog-mex, lol. I speak a lot of that.

I read all MWT's post, trying to learn a little heb-mex.

[bert]

.....heb-mex.....

difficult to master. I only know one phrase....Yada Yada Yada por favor.

[DesScorp]

“The criminals are those that provide her with classified information.”

Yup. I’d like to see more busts along this line...time to raid the homes of some civilian employees and military officers that are leaking.