CBS- Dozens knew about NSA program, so the leaks are ok. (Unlike Plame)

12/30/05

[ArmyBratproud]

Hey Freepers,

Being in the giving spirit of the holidays, I figured I would volunteer to sit through the sickening experience of watching the CBS Evening News tonight. So the rest of you would not have to.

I was wondering how the would report the news about the Justice Department opening an investigaion to the illegal leaking of classified information in regards to the NSA program that is designed to protect us from terrorism.

As I expected, as we all did, CBS tried to spin it to make it sound as if the party who leaked it did nothing wrong.

THE IRONY in all of it? Well, since there could have been dozens who leaked the information, CBS News has seemed to take the position that it is ok that the info was leaked.

Compare this to the Valerie "I never met a camera I didn't strip for" Plame story. According to Andrea Mitchell and others, dang near all of Washington knew that Plame worked for the CIA. Mainly because she told them. And keep in mind that it is obvious that Plame was not covert at the time her info went out. Meaning nobody leaked classified info in that case. Which is why nobody was charged with it.

But that logic is wasted on CBS. Dozens knew about a non-crime in the Plame case, so somebody (only if its a republican) should go to jail. But in the case where there was a crime (likely by an anti-Bush player), the leaking of the NSA information, CBS reported it as if it were a non issue.

Should be no shock since it is...cBS.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

We are at War and the Leftists are supporting the Al-Queda side....

[Lady Heron]

I think this is the first time that I have heard about the CIA Gatehouse. Anyone else remember??

I think it was when some muslim shot up the intersection at the entrance to the CIA during the Clinton administration, I think that there was at least one killed if not more.

[oldbrowser]

With all of the coverage and hype about Plame, these MSM bastards reveal, once again, what they are. They are unAmerican, antiAmerican.

All enemies foreign and domestic.

[hershey]

Big, big mistake. Even the dumbest voter knows what treason is.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Gonna get interesting for the NY Times :

Justice Department To Follow Plame Precedent

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From another Blog:

Time for President Bush to Call His Critics' Bluff on Warrantless Anti-Terrorist Spy Programs

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Related items:

West Point Garrison Captured Without a Shot, Traitor Arnold to Blame (Vanity/Blog)

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Time for the President to call their bluff

[Marine_Uncle]

"Gonna get interesting for the NY Times :"
Good write up at the Captains Quarters. Thanks. Yes. Things are going to start get rather interesting. These damn L/MSM have no business playing like they are somehow a security clearance bureau where they decide what leaks can be exposed.

[No Longer Free State]

West Point Garrison Captured Without a Shot, Traitor Arnold to Blame

[Txsleuth]

Thanks for the links...

One of my New Year's resolutions is to get that book by David Horowitz and finally read it...thanks to your persistent posting of it...Thank you...and Happy New Year!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

That book is a real eye-opener.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From Michelle Malkin:

FINALLY: JUSTICE DEPT. OPENS NSA LEAK PROBE

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2) Look for the Plamegate apologists to argue that the NSA leaks were "good" leaks, justified in the name of safeguarding civil liberties and the national interest, and should therefore be exempt from criminal prosecution.

By contrast, they argue that disclosures about Valerie Plame were "bad" leaks worthy of pulling out all prosecutorial stops--though no one has been charged with leaking classified info, and even if they did, the adverse effects on national security are infinitesimal compared to the damage done by the NYT/NSA leaks.

The law, may I remind the Bush-bashers, does not grant an exception based on leakers' motives. See Scott Johnson's analysis of the statutory language here.

[Marine_Uncle]

I read the stuff under your post text:
"See Scott Johnson's analysis of the statutory language here."
Clearly the DoJ is going to get the paper, editors, and informants fried. The sooner the better.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I hope the DemonicRats try to defend all of the leakers.....might help in Nov 2006!

Breaking out of here for the Raiders Giant game...starting off pretty decent.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Good Editorial posted earlier:

Hold the line
The New York Sun | December 19, 2005 | Editorial

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We are particularly encouraged by the suggestions in Mr. Bush's radio address over the weekend that he has been relying, at least in part, on his constitutional powers - and responsibilities - as commander in chief and that he sees the constitutional authority as trumping the restrictions of FISA. Wouldn't it be nice to see that sorted out by the Roberts-Scalia-Thomas wing of the Supreme Court? Certainly the drift we discern in the court so far - not to mention also back during, say, World War II - is that it isn't going to permit the opponents of the war to stand on ceremony.

America is in a war with Islamic extremists who are trying to defeat our country. "Two of the terrorist hijackers who flew a jet into the Pentagon, Nawaf al Hamzi and Khalid al Mihdhar, communicated while they were in the United States to other members of al Qaeda who were overseas," Mr. Bush said in his radio address. "But we didn't know they were here, until it was too late." The president said the activities he authorized by the National Security Agency "make it more likely that killers like these 9/11 hijackers will be identified and located in time."

The idea that this is shocking is an idea that has stranded the Democrats in the wilderness.The managing editor of this newspaper has long kept a Cold War-era poster above his telephone with the warning, "Most telephone circuits are not secured. Keep telephone conversations unclassified." Anyone who thinks that non-encrypted international phone or e-mail conversations are secure had to have been naive to begin with. But terrorists are sometimes naive, or careless.

The majority of Americans, we're confident, are grateful to Mr. Bush for setting the listening in motion and hope it succeeds in preventing another attack like the one on September 11, 2001. If this listening were not happening, it'd be a scandal. You don't even need a wiretap to predict that the same partisan Democrats who are now denouncing the president for supposedly infringing on civil liberties would be denouncing him for failing to take the steps necessary to protect us.

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

More reading:

December 19, 2005
Hiding in plain sight
Powerline Blog

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From the Times story it is far easier to infer the illegality of the leaks on which it is based than to infer the illegality of the program itself. When the Times says that it granted its "nearly" dozen informants anonymity because the information they were leaking is classified, the Times is saying that it granted them anonymity because they were breaking the law. In order to get its story, the Times protected them from prosecution by concealing their identity.

[Mogengator]

You can always count on SeeBS.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I'm getting ready for tomorrow's Sunday Talk Shows....they might be really interesting ....

Another Blog link with Inside Info:

Friday, December 30, 2005
Calling Mr. Fitzgerald?

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As I told you about in this post yesterday as a source confirmed to me that the Justice Department has launched a probe into the NSA leak. Mr. Risen, you are in trouble - prepare your defense. I told you so.

The White House will be announcing the probe at about 12:30pm. My source tells me that this probe will most likely result in another prosecutor being assigned as of course Fitzgerald is still busy/dizzy on the Plame/Game No-Leak. Additionally, other probes into other recent leaks such as the CIA 'prisons'leak is in the works as well. As I said, this is the NEW Bush - on the attack - it's no more Mr. Nice Guy!

About time! Also covering Michelle Malkin

[NormsRevenge]

No Mo' Mr. Nice Guy BumP!

Happy New Year!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Back at you with a Happy New year!!

Bout to shut down for the nite here!