Posted on 03/04/2006 9:27:25 PM PST by FairOpinion
The Bush administration, seeking to limit leaks of classified information, has launched initiatives targeting journalists and their possible government sources. The efforts include several FBI probes, a polygraph investigation inside the CIA and a warning from the Justice Department that reporters could be prosecuted under espionage laws.
In recent weeks, dozens of employees at the CIA, the National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies have been interviewed by agents from the FBI's Washington field office, who are investigating possible leaks that led to reports about secret CIA prisons and the NSA's warrantless domestic surveillance program, according to law enforcement and intelligence officials familiar with the two cases.
The Justice Department also argued in a court filing last month that reporters can be prosecuted under the 1917 Espionage Act for receiving and publishing classified information. The brief was filed in support of a case against two pro-Israeli lobbyists, who are the first nongovernment officials to be prosecuted for receiving and distributing classified information.
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I hope they won't back off from this.
Full speed ahead I just hope they het tried for Treason !
This is one of the reasons the heat has been on the WH. The rats are trying to make them back down. I hope the WH presses on and slams these guys good.
II hope so also.
I get this feeling that Alberto Gonzales is a good attack dog and a close friend of Bush....I think Alberto is fed up with the liberal mantra and will do what is needed to get the MSN to realize the struggle we are up against. No prisoners this time.
You are right. Bush is letting loose the dogs of war.
I agree, about time. But the loonies will start screeching freedom of speech...yet again.
Average citizen will hear on MSM that Bush is trying to take away our rights......
Morons.
"Bush is letting loose the dogs of war."
And it's high time.
These leaks, such as about the NSA wiretapping of terrorists, DO indeed jeopardize national security. Definitely past time to stop that, with whatever drastic measures are necessary.
Interesting ....
Great news and I hope it happens. They won't have to prosecute and jail too many "journalists" before they'll get the message, jail is not fun.
Bush has been too timid with his adversaries in the past. I hope he goes for the jugular now.
Freedom of speech doesn't apply to revealing highly classified information that endangers national security.
There are already laws on the books against that, with long, long jail terms, they just haven't been enforcing it, when it applied to journalists and members of Congress.
"There's a tone of gleeful relish in the way they talk about dragging reporters before grand juries, their appetite for withholding information, and the hints that reporters who look too hard into the public's business risk being branded traitors," said New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller, in a statement responding to questions from The Washington Post. "I don't know how far action will follow rhetoric, but some days it sounds like the administration is declaring war at home on the values it professes to be promoting abroad."
Can you believe the unmitigated GALL of that guy?
your link is rather ... dead.
(WaPo down right now while posting)
Sounds too good to be true. I hope I'm wrong.
It seems like the Washington Post website is down.
I tried to just go to their main page, and that didn't work either.
All they have to do is squeeze one or two real hard and those liberals will give up their mothers to save their asses. They are gutless cowards. The "Enlightened one's" my a@@@
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