rdb3... good to see you back!!! hope all's well and on the mend.
Posted on 07/26/2005 7:38:22 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
No wonder 2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has been silent as a churchmouse about Karl Rove while her Democratic colleagues call for his prosecution for leaking classified information about CIA employee Valerie Plame.
Turns out - in the only case in U.S. history of a person successfully prosecuted for leaking classified information to the press - Hillary's husband pardoned the guilty party.
On January 20, 2001, President Clinton pardoned Samuel Loring Morison, a civilian analyst with the Office of Naval Intelligence. In 1984, Morison had been convicted of providing classified satellite photos of an under-construction Soviet nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to Britain's Jane's Defense Weekly.
He received a two-year jail sentence.
In pardoning Morison, Clinton dismissed the advice of the CIA.
"We said we were obviously opposed -- it was a vigorous 'Hell, no," one senior intelligence official told the Washington Post at the time. "We think . . . giving pardons to people who are convicted of doing that sends the wrong signal to people who are currently entrusted with classified information."
Morison is the only person ever successfully prosecuted under the 1917 Espionage Act, the law invoked by Democrats who want to nail Rove after it became clear that he didn't violate the 1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act.
But it's going to be difficult for Dems to feign national security outrage over Plame's outing when the husband of their party's presidential frontrunner let an actual convicted leaker off the hook.
Last week, when Sen. John Kerry called for Mr. Rove to be fired with Hillary standing by his side, she nodded silently. When reporters asked her what she thought of the alleged Rove outrage, she offered only, "I'm nodding."
No doubt while remembering her husband's pardon of Mr. Morison.
From The Nation - America's Longest Running Weekly Magazine.
Volume: 241 • Issue #: 0015 • Date: November 09, 1985
Minority Report
by Hitchens, Christopher
Open the article in The Nation Digital Archive
Abstract:
According to the author, the Officials Secrets Act is the only piece of Western democratic legislation that stands comparison with the much-cited fictions of authors Franz Kafka and Joseph Heller. Its operative, central function is totalitarian. If charged, the person must be guilty of something. This handy principle has just been deployed in the U.S., as it might be said experimentally, in the case of Samuel Loring Morison. A former naval intelligence analyst, a scion of some distinguished family or other, a volunteer for the Vietnam War, he spent some of his ripest years telling the naval establishment that it was lagging behind the Soviet Union.
http://tinyurl.com/do8ab
More of the RAT MO:
Our guys can do whatever they want, and we'll defend them to the death, but don't you @#$%^&* Republicans even think about it!
MORISON, SAMUEL LORING,
a civilian analyst with the Office of Naval Intelligence, was arrested 1 October 1984 for supplying Jane's Publications with classified photography showing a Soviet nuclear powered carrier under construction. The photographs were subsequently published in Jane's Defence Weekly (July 1984). Morison, described as a heavy spender and unhappy with his Navy Department job, had been employed by Jane's as a part-time contributor. A search of his apartment turned up two portions of Navy documents marked Secret. On 17 October 1985, after a seven-day trial, Morison became the first individual convicted under the 1917 Espionage Code for unauthorized disclosure to the press. Also convicted of theft of government property, Morison was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment on 4 December 1985. The decision was appealed, and in April 1988 the conviction was upheld by the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals. In October 1988 the Supreme Court declined to hear the case, thus endorsing the use of the espionage code for prosecuting cases of unauthorized disclosure.
Washington Post, 3 Oct 1984, “Navy Analyst Arrested in Photo Sale”
Washington Post, 29 Oct 1984, “Unlikely Espionage Suspect”
Washington Post, 18 Oct 1985, “Morison Guilty of Spying, Stealing Documents”
New York Times, 8 Oct 1984, “Disclosing Secrets to the Press...”
Well, as long as we're all living up to the same (low) standards.
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I thought Bill was taller than her?
Verrrrrry interesting ping.
So obviously this does not make market media, but how does Hillary play it now?
BTTT
hahahahahaha!
Larry Johnson's Group (VIPS) Called On CIA Employees To Leak Secrets To Hurt Bush .. Article from back in March 2003
This is a great opportunity to reveal it all, I posted the only piece of information I have on him, hopefully others have more
rdb3... good to see you back!!! hope all's well and on the mend.
Sea Waves Magazine News Release 02/01/03 Vancouver, BC January 1, 2003 - Sea Waves Magazine is pleased to announce that Samuel Loring Morison has joined our staff. Mr. Morison will be providing research services as well as shortly starting a weekly newsletter, to be published by Sea Waves magazine, on U.S. naval news that will originate from Washington DC. Mr. Morison has 35 years of experience in naval affairs from both a hands on and in the academic field. After graduation from the University of Louisville in 1967, he served onboard the USS Savage during combat operations off Vietnam. After leaving the Navy he was employed by the U.S. Naval Historical Center and then as a civilian analyst for US Naval Intelligence Service. In the tradition set by his esteemed grandfather, Samuel Eliot Morison, he has assisted in the writing and publishing of such works as Jane’s Fighting Ships, Ships and Aircraft of the US Fleet and the multi-volume Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. He is currently working on a book about American Battleships and publishing his grandfathers World War II diaries. He has also writes or has written for various publications including the U.S. Naval Institute “Proceedings” and "Naval History" both published by the United States Naval Institute, Annapolis, MD, "Navy News and Undersea Technology" of Washington, DC, "Navy Times" of Springfield, VA, the "Fort Wayne Journal Gazette" of Fort Wayne, IN and "Warship International" of Toledo, OH. Sea Waves Magazine (www.seawaves.com) has been the world’s leading source of naval news since 1997 and is delivered five times per week via e-mail. For more information, contact Dave Shirlaw (604-924-0200) -30-
Thats funny.. LoL..
The MsP/MsM performs virtual espionage in print and over the air waves DAILY.. What a joke.. Not to speak of elected democrats and some RINOs.. The 1917 Espionage Act, is a joke..
Sedition and treason are performed with abandon freely under the protection of the 1st amendment no less.. National Security is also a joke(borders).. Congress is a chinese fire drill.. on these issues..
I hope the bad guys havn't noticed... d:-/
A "Thank you for this information" BUMP!
I remember seeing those pictures back when they came out in Jane's, that ship would have been classified as an automatic high value target, from my operational experience in the Nav at that time...
Jane's was a great source of information for us back then...Little did we know the source got in trouble for releasing those photos...
"Travis McGee" will know what else the military intelligence and operational types were having to deal with back then as well...
The Walkers...
Nice. I hope someone besides Newsmax mentions this as this Rove ridiculousness continues.
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