Who, me? I didn't leak anything...ever! I have our country's greatest interests at heart.
Where are you, Jonathan? Happy Hanukkah!
Posted on 12/14/2004 6:28:36 PM PST by I_saw_the_light
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department (news - web sites) has been asked to investigate the leak of details of a secret spy program which media reports say would involve spending $9.5 billion to build stealth spy satellites, government sources said on Tuesday.
The sources said a U.S. intelligence agency had referred the issue to the department, but did not identify the agency. The National Reconnaissance Office, which builds spy satellites, declined to comment.
The Washington Post said on Saturday the classified program was for a new generation of spy satellites designed to orbit undetected. It cited U.S. officials as saying its projected cost had almost doubled to nearly $9.5 billion from $5 billion.
That would make the program probably the largest single item in the estimated $40 billion intelligence budget, which is also classified.
Separately, Senate Republican leaders are considering taking action against Democrats who publicly referred obliquely to the program saying it was wasteful.
Possible action could include a referral to the Ethics Committee or a public rebuke.
Sen. John Rockefeller (news, bio, voting record) of West Virginia, the senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, spoke on the Senate floor last week spoke about his opposition to funding an intelligence program that he considered wasteful.
Rockefeller did not describe the program in any detail and referred to it only as a major funding acquisition program.
Wendy Morigi, spokeswoman for Rockefeller said at the time: "Senator Rockefeller's reference to this program, which was fully vetted and approved by security officials, makes the point that continuing to fund an enormously expensive, unjustified, and wasteful program is dangerous to our national security."
I'd start with the senior democrat's hanging for treason and keep going till everyone gets the message, CIA included.
Throw their butts in jail.
This was mentioned this weekend. West Virginians and Americans should be outraged at his perfidy!
Rockefeller is out to destroy our Intelligence Community for his own sick need to be "important"! T'aint the first time, but it damn well aught to be the last!
Fry his A** and his "mentor" Leaky Leahy!
Regarding his perfidy.. that would be "ought"! Angrily carried away! Sorry
Traitors in government? NO WAY!!! They'd NEVER try to put communist sympathizers and traitors in government would they? And the media would CERTAINLY NEVER PARTICIPATE IN THIS TREASONOUS ACTIVITY WOULD THEY??
What was I thinking, Kerry's communist ties and the National media's love affair with the prospect of their friendly communist pick as president. How stupid of me!
See the ANTI-DNC Web Portal at --->
http://www.noDNC.com
Leave it to the Dems to object to the single most important initiative for US defense. If it has any real chance helping America, Blue-Staters will find to some reason to obstruct it.
This could be a lie, but most likely it's true. There are traitors in the security establishment as well as the Senate, and these traitors would find Rockefeller a very useful person to deal with on a regular basis.
IF his statement was vetted, then the investigation should look into who did the vetting and who gave the approval.
And while we're at it, who gave Valery Plame permission to violate the normal rules and hire her own husband to investigate African yellowcake?
Ping to a follow-up to Rockefellar leaking about that secret satellite program.
I've been involved in programs similar to the one involved. I wonder if anyone realizes how much money we spend to keep these things secret. And all of that expenditure of funds can be thrown away by one A$$hole, like Jay Rockefeller.
it's about time we Republicans got some spine and started taking them to the woodshed - they've been railroading and destroying our guys for decades on trumped up character assassinations -
we can at least hold their feet to the fire when they - deliberately and with malice - leak top security info
OMG! A referral to the dreaded Ethics Committee or a public rebuke! Yessiree this is serious Senate business... (off extreme sarcasm)
I won't be a bit surprised to find out that IL RAT Senator Dick Dur bin-Ladin wasn't mixed up in it somehow too.
The Dems never did like Reagan's star wars
If I recall it not only freaked them out ... it also freaked out the commies
Hmmmmmmmm
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Who, me? I didn't leak anything...ever! I have our country's greatest interests at heart.
Where are you, Jonathan? Happy Hanukkah!
What do you expect from an administration that keeps holdovers from the Clinton administration?
BTW .. wasn't it nice of Rockefeller to blow a 9.5 Million dollar (of taxpayer money) project out the window and let our enemy know what's up?? .... / sarcasm >
"Senate Republican leaders are considering taking action against Democrats who publicly referred obliquely to the program saying it was wasteful."
To put it in its' simplest terms...the republicans don't have the spines to do anything. They are weak wristed, snot-nosed whiners that will been over and take one up the rear before they would do anything.
This might get given to Patrick Fitzgerald's ongoing grand jury into various leaks.
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