Posted on 12/30/2005 7:34:35 PM PST by 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.
Possibly one of the three that are already under investigation?
Wait a few years. Their 15 minutes is about over. Calling a Reuters reporter to the airport before going on holiday tells me these two clowns won't give up the spotlight without taking drastic measures.
100's +++ know about the Barrett/Cisneros probe,,,,So, where does the publics right to know enter in? Leak the report to CBS and NYT, watch them outdo themselves getting the word out. Ha! Treasnous Hillary will NEVER let that happen.
The leaker must be caught and punished...treason.
In the same vein, one would think that Joe Wilson was told by the CIA that he shouldn't publish his article because it was "more than likely" that the public would find out that Valerie was indeed ONE of the persons behind his Niger trip.
"According to a guy on FNC, there were only a few people who knew about it, and that should make finding the leaker easier. So much for the Communist Bull$h1t System."
I just caught the re-run of Cavuto with Stuart Varney. He has, imo, done a superb job this past week. While he appears to be sort of a 'happy go lucky' guy, he doesn't miss an oppotunity to tell it like it really is and he has not been shy about using the word 'treason'.
He had on Ronald Kessler who also said that only very few knew of the secret program. Yesterday I heard it reported that there were only 8 who were briefed on it.
What I also found interesting was his explanation of WHY it was NOT sufficient for Bush to get warrants, pre or post wiretaping. (Dems always say that he had 72 hours after the fact to get one and there is no excuse.) This is what he said:
Apparently if Bin Laden were calling someone in the States, who proceeded to give Bin Laden information about the next attack, under FISA law, the only information FISA could legally provide Bush is Bin Laden's side of the conversation. NONE of what the person in the US had to say OR their telephone number could legally be provided by FISA to Bush. According to Kessler, when Bush found out, he basically said this is B.S., and made the decision to go around FISA.
Kessler is an author, but I don't know if his explanation is on spot. Anyone?
I don't have the answer for you, but wasn't that the same interview where the guest stated it didn't rise to the level of treason because there wasn't the intent to overthrow the government of the United States?
Undermining the administration and the nation's security apparatus in time of war sure seems to me like an attempt to overthrow the government.
Somewhere on the FISA site is a dissertation by Mary Jo White, a statement saying FISA is "lower" than the President's War Powers, an ACLU/USA law case which effectively tells the ACLU to go to he** (ACLU lost) and much more.
The problem this is causing is that cases are going to either get thrown out, dumbed down or "no action" taken. The latest Florida Professor "loss" is likely one of them.
Usama is probably running an ad as we speak: US CITZENS WANTED for "action within the United States".
One of Ashcroft's statements to the Senate made mention of the Alqueda manual's reference to: "Use the laws of the United States against them (us). Moussaoui (who wasn;t even a citizen) is/was a good example. He might look like a dumb ox but IMHO, he knew what he was doing along "legal lines". Wasn't Moussaoui's female attorney found passing information from Moussaoui to "terrorists"?
Paging CBS's advertisers...
That's SeeBS to me.
;-)
Did CBS happen to mention who in Al Queda knew about the NSA program before the leaks?
Yeah, give 'em that real tough Sandy Berger treatment.
Yes, Kessler was the guy I heard. Thanks for providing a lot more information on the interview.
Can your say "Classified Material"? Until it is declassified release is still "Illegal".
Her bugeyes have almost popped out of their sockets the past nights, as her repugnant zeal to get G.W. has transformed her ino a severe nutjob. All week she almost "got wet" thinking about possible troubles for this administration.
She proved herself just another LIBERAL ASS trying to move up on the old/liberal/socialist media chain.
There are members in the higher and lower echelons of this government that are, obviously, even now exercising the power of the "Beast" which is to come and are preparing this nation for its part in the end times!
CBS- what a waste of time and space.
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