Jane Harmon: NY Times Should be Prosecuted

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[Sub-Driver]

Jane Harmon: NY Times Should be Prosecuted

In a stunning break with her party, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said Sunday that the New York Times should be prosecuted for damaging national security by revealing the National Security Agency's top secret terrorist surveillance program authorized by President Bush.

"If the press was part of the process of delivering classified information, there have to be some limits on press immunity," Harmon told NBC's "Meet the Press."

Moderator Tim Russert then pressed: "But if [the NSA leak] came from a whistleblower, should the New York Times reporter be prosecuted?"

Harmon countered: "Well, it's not clear it was a whistleblower. You have to prove that first."

"If it's protected by the whistleblower statute, then it's protected," she explained. Harmon then added, however, that CIA Director Porter Goss recently said that the Times' sources don't qualify under the whistleblower statute.

"By the way, I deplore that leak,"

[ncountylee]

Russert tried to cover for the NY Times as expected.

[rellimpank]

--sounds like a good counterpoint to Congressthing Heather Whatever , the dimwit Repub from Mew Mexico--

[hattend]

Is Harmon up for re-election?

[DarthVader]

Every two years.

[jazusamo]

This isn't the first time that Harman has broken with her Party. She has put our country ahead of the Dem party strategy in the past.

[sgtbono2002]

New York Times is the Al Jazeera subsidiary in New York.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

No, but she can read that 70 + percent of the American people support the president of this issue.

[Piranha]

I heard her speak last March in a panel discussion about foreign policy. I was surprised at how intelligent and fair she was. I regard her as a Lieberman-type Democrat.

[hattend]

Yep

[peyton randolph]

Harmon just lost her complimentary subscription to the NY Times. Guess she'll have to get the DNC talking points faxed directly to her instead of reading them in the paper.

[the rightgirl]

"Is Harmon up for re-election?"

Jane Harmon is a patriotic Democrat (I know, oxymoron, most of the time, but not in this case, I don't think). She was on the "Let's see if Bush was legal" kick for awhile (as is my own Republican nutcase, Lindsey Graham) but she is all for national security and is as fair as most politicians get, across the board.

She is a post 9/11 Democrat.

[Grampa Dave]

Positive news re Jane Harmon.

Russert continues to be an enemy of what is good in America while pretending to be a good guy.

[Just Lori]

In hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, Vermont Sen. Pat Leahy praised the Times leak, saying it revealed an abuse of power by the Bush administration.

Are people in Vermont proud of this moron? I'm sorry, but we REALLY need a good house cleaning in the Senate. We should start by taking out the garbage!

[wardaddy]

hmmmm

[jazusamo]

As do I.

[carlr]

Funny how no one in the MSM seems to think that perhaps someone trying to end a shadow government coup being orchestrated by a CIA desk jockey and her mid level bureaucrat husband is a "whistleblower".

[muawiyah]

When it comes to time execute selected executives at the New York Times (for espionage and treason), I think we ought to let Rep. Harmon pull the names out of a hat.

So far she's today's big winner.

(NOTE: Although the Democrats thought the Enron trial would serve as a good example to business executives so they'd take care to be more responsible in the future, I think it would be a much better example to business executives if a few of them were hanged for such treachery, and here's our chance to do it right).

[noblejones]

It becomes more clear every day that the failure of Al Qaeda to strike the US again after 9/11 is driving the DNC and its media arm, the New York Times, insane. They want desperately for more of us to die on our own soil so they can attack Bush for it. Of this I have absolutely no doubt.