[governsleastgovernsbest]

Today Show/NewsBusters bad-moon-Risen ping.

[digger48]

Caught just enough of it to see Katie on her knees with her "smart glasses"

[ken5050]

Good morning, Mark..Was she on roller-skates again..yesterday's vignette with the ladies from "Rollergirls" was NOT one of her high-points..wonder if CBS execs were watching..here's your new "anchorette".....

[Red Badger]

IOW the leakers are PO'd beaureaukratz who are in a snit for not being in on the BigWigs meetings. If this is the case, they should be summarily executed on national TV........

[beyond the sea]

The principals: Rumsfeld, Cheney Tenet and Rice were meeting constantly, setting policy and never allowing the experts, the people who understand the region to have a say." Cooed Katie: "You suggest there was a lot of power-grabbing going on." "Yes," responded Risen, only too happy to concur.

Bush, Rummy, Rice, et al wouldn't have had to do so much "power-grabbing" if Clinton hadn't been doing so much ASS-GRABBING the previous decade.

[digitaldallas]

"the checks and balances that normally keep American foreign policy and national security policy toward the center kind of broke down."

Since when is national security a left/right issue. No wonder they are disgruntled, they don't like the partisan tilt needed to protect the US.

[darkwing104]

Risen was quick to claim that this was "the complete opposite of the Plame case."

Laws were actually broken this time.

[atomicpossum]

Risen seemed clearly to tip his hand to the fact that the leakers were disgruntled career employees.

Next, on 'Civil Servants Gone Wild,' these State Department Party Animals tell what goes on behind closed doors!

[Wasanother]

Before these experts are put on these shows they are asked for source verification which would mean that now the Today Show knows something about the leaker and should be subpoenaed to answer what Risen told them. If they don't tell then one of them has to go to jail too.

[G.Mason]

" "Power-grabbing?" How is the exercise of power by the people the president explicitly put in charge of foreign and national security policy a "grab"? Only in the minds of the liberal establishment, who believe that power rightly resides with the career 'wets' in State and the intelligence agencies."

Why if one didn't know better, one would believe that the enemy Democrat Party would subscribe to a permanent elitist class of "civil servants" running the country and thus do away with the cumbersome office of president.

At least until they can figure out how to get back in that office.

[wizardoz]

"a cabal between the vice president of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, on critical issues that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made.''

WHAT?? You mean the people at the top were actually making decisions without your permission?? OMG!! This is outrageous! The leaders are actually... leading!!

Well, you can't blame some of them for being shocked. They've never seen that done before.

[norwaypinesavage]

"at the origin of this leak were career employees, disgruntled at being shut out of the center of the action by appointed officials."

During time of war, traitors are executed.

[LibSnubber]

"Time and again, Risen defended his sources as having the "purest" and "best" motives, springing entirely for their concern for the rule of law."

OMG! Who in the hell does he think he's kidding? I'm so sick of these black-souled Bush-haters. "Pure" motives that spring entirely from their concern for the rule of law??? Give me a friggin' break.

How long do we have to wait for some heads to start rolling? I want these "pure" traitors' names NOW!

[Phlap]

The leaker(s) made a call. They(he/she) decided on their own accord that Bush did not have the authority to do what he was doing. If the courts back up the leaker(s) they are whistel blowers. If Bush is right and he did have the authority then the leaker(s) becomes a traitor.

[alnick]

You had more of a radicalization, in which the career professionals were not really given a chance to forge a consensus within the administration.

Forge a consensus? Good grief! We have Al Qeada doing everything in its power to obtain the resources to nuke major American cities. They have already amply demonstrated they will not hesitate to attack us, killing as many innocent Americans as possible, and this idiot expects the POTUS to forge a consensus before we do what it takes to prevent this? Forge a consensus with whom, those on the left who have demonstrated time and again that they will opposed the Bush Administration on anything and everything, including national security, simply because they hate the man?

[RobFromGa]

Katie musta seen the polling data that showed Americans support the NSA eavesdropping about 3-1. These are poor odds for the MSM to overcome and Katie is willing to move on to other topics.

[freema]

"True, but surely not in the way Risen meant it. The Plame case involved the 'revealing' of the identity of someone apparently already well-known in many DC circles to be a CIA employee, and a desk jockey at that who had not worked abroad in many years. The NSA affair involves the compromising of a current intelligence operation aimed at America's deadliest enemies."

Great report. I'm glad I missed the interview, really. I am so angry and I want this investigation wrapped up yesterday.

The final line , of this report (above), is woefully inadequate. We have lost a number of great Americans. Fellow citizens who have died while protecting US. The NSA affair involves much, much more than simply the compromising of a current intelligence operation aimed at America's deadliest enemies. The NSA Affair (or more aptly put-the Times Affair) involves compromising LIVES-those of our Armed Services and those of every and any American in the US.

[cvq3842]

Even if one uses the standards of "good leak/bad leak" apparently favored by the MSM, one could certainly argue that the American peopele had a right to know that Joe Wilson was a blowhard and political hack whose wife helped him get the Niger mission.

And apparently NO CRIME was committed in bringing her up! No surprise that that point does not resonate with the Democrats.

[AmericanChef]

-Time and again, Risen defended his sources as having the "purest" and "best" motives, springing entirely for their concern for the rule of law.-

1. Risen knew what he was publishing, and should be thrown in jail with the rest of them.
2. He didn't bother to fact check the law!
3. He is scum (this could also be #1).
4. Couric is scum (OK, that's a freebie).

[sgtbono2002]

Did anybody ask Risen why he committed this treason right around the same time he published his book?