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Probes may have 'chilling effect' on media (espionage statute used on CIA prisons leak?)
Baltimore Sun ^
| 11/16/05
| Nick Madigan
Posted on 11/16/2005 1:08:27 PM PST by Libloather
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"What if the government starts enforcing the espionage statute whenever there's a leak?" asked Steve Roberts
Cool.
To: Libloather
Oh good, another "chilling effect" story. We always get these when things get hot.
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posted on
11/16/2005 1:10:41 PM PST
by
rhombus
To: Libloather
could confound the symbiotic relationship between government officials and reporters Euphemism alert: A better translation for this process would be BREAKING THE LAW.
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posted on
11/16/2005 1:11:08 PM PST
by
denydenydeny
("As a Muslim of course I am a terrorist"--Sheikh Omar Brooks, quoted in the London Times 8/7/05)
To: Libloather
"There's no conceivable way the public would have learned the information in that story if it had been shadowed by the threat that anyone revealing that information would be charged with a crime," Roberts said. Terrific! What recent history has clearly proven is that keeping information away from the press is a Good Thing. ...especially classified information. ...especially in time of war.
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posted on
11/16/2005 1:11:55 PM PST
by
TChris
("Unless you act, you're going to lose your world." - Mark Steyn)
To: Libloather
"There's no conceivable way the public would have learned the information in that story if it had been shadowed by the threat that anyone revealing that information would be charged with a crime," Of course, we should ignore the fact that once the public knows about it, the enemy knows about it too...
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posted on
11/16/2005 1:17:49 PM PST
by
trebb
("I am the way... no one comes to the Father, but by me..." - Jesus in John 14:6 (RSV))
To: Libloather
The CIA is a Sieve. Close it down.
To: Libloather
I'd like these media traitors, who think of nothing or divulging our nation's secrets to the enemy, to be chilled permanently.
To: Libloather
The article is right. We all know that reporters are exalted, superior persons of such noble and high cause that they should be exempt from laws covering average people. The press is the closest thing we have to Gods ... I bow before them.
*cough*
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posted on
11/16/2005 1:20:50 PM PST
by
NewMediaFan
(Fake but accurate)
To: Libloather
...The probes, first in the Valerie Plame case and now in The Washington Post's story about covert CIA prisons, have prompted questions about the benefits and pitfalls of leaking national security secrets...The presstitutes never call it what it really is; criminal disclosure of information which puts the entire nation at risk. The MSM is the enemy. The sooner they and their co-conspirator "sources" are convicted as the traitors they are, the better the country and the world will be.
To: All
What a terrible thing it would be to enforce the law! I'm sorry, but I have no sympathy for any government official who leaks to the press. I also have no sympathy for any reporter who has to take the choice of revealing a confidential source of a government secret or going to jail. Let them go to jail. Let them stay there until the hell freezes over or until they talk, whichever comes first. I am so sick of the culture of leaks in Washington that I can hardly keep my food down.
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posted on
11/16/2005 1:29:06 PM PST
by
agedav
(the aviation theologian)
To: Libloather
Gosh, what would we do without "anonymous sources"?
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posted on
11/16/2005 1:29:30 PM PST
by
randog
(What the....?!)
To: Libloather
At its most extreme, the critics say, the effort culminated in a push for war that used faulty intelligence.Once again, the reporter gets his opinion into the piece by resorting to "the critics say." Most DC-based reporters are out and out treasonous, pure and simple.
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posted on
11/16/2005 1:37:28 PM PST
by
speedy
To: winner3000
I'd like these media traitors, who think of nothing or divulging our nation's secrets to the enemy, to be chilled permanently. ...but only if it could be done without the continuing waste of our precious energy resources.
< ]B^)
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posted on
11/16/2005 1:48:59 PM PST
by
Erasmus
(Getting captivated by modern music leads to Stockhausen Syndrome.)
To: Libloather
What a novel idea....
might make for some Pflaming changes in how information flows into the media...
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posted on
11/16/2005 1:50:15 PM PST
by
pointsal
To: Libloather
Leaking classified information is a crime, it has always been a crime, it's just that now they're doing something about it because we're at war.
Of course, the libs refuse to believe that's a problem, and the media is so devoid of commonsense that they don't see anything wrong with it either, but it's still a crime and should be punished to the full extent of the law.
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posted on
11/16/2005 2:06:27 PM PST
by
McGavin999
(Reporters write the Truth, Journalists write "Stories")
To: Libloather
Oh, I see. When they're putting the screws to someone in the Bush admin, it's "patriotic" and "justice." When the tables are turned, it's "chilling."
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posted on
11/16/2005 2:18:18 PM PST
by
MizSterious
(Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
To: Libloather
uh-oh, the RATS have drug out the dredded "chilling effect" argument again.
To: Libloather
Yeah. Sounds like a novel plan. Enforce the frickin' laws!
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posted on
11/16/2005 2:38:37 PM PST
by
null and void
(The enemy of my enemy is my tool...)
To: Libloather
What a dumb A$$...That's the point.
DumbA$$ not directed to you but at the excerpted portion
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posted on
11/16/2005 2:39:25 PM PST
by
TASMANIANRED
(Conservatives are from earth. Liberals are from Uranus.)
To: Libloather
Consider the source of this crap, The Baltimore Sun"...for crying out loud.
Rule 1, If the Sun is against it, it's good for America.
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posted on
11/16/2005 2:51:06 PM PST
by
TET1968
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