Expect Journalistic Tongues to Loosen (Jack Kelly)

Real Clear Politics ^ | 3-7-06 | Jack Kelly - Commentary

[flying Elvis]

Check out the New York times from the Civil War years. They have a history of this kind of "reporting."

[Just Lori]

The culture of treason. Has a nice ring to it.

It has a terrible ring to it. The idea that ANY person elected to public office would hamper intelligence efforts in a time of war is awful! How many American and allied lives have been put in further danger or lost because of this? We've had traitors before, double agents and all that, but these men were enTRUSTED with powerful positions in our government. The leakers of the NSA info AND the people responsible for passing it on need to feel the HEAVY hand of justice, and swiftly! I don't care what party they're affiliated with. This is downright evil. It's not something to be gleeful over.

[Just Lori]

I meant that post for everybody.

[jmaroneps37]

Isn't the ratmedia that always talks about "seeing them in orange jump suits"? Now they can try one on. If this goes as it has the potential to, it can be DY-NO-MITE!

[maica]

Gee, I wonder why this case has not been top of the news for long periods of time!!!!

[maica]

"What the New York Times has done is nothing less than to compromise the centerpiece of our defensive efforts in the war on terrorism," writes Gabriel Schoenfeld in the current issue of Commentary. "If information about the NSA program had been quietly conveyed to an al Qaida operative on a microdot...there can be no doubt the episode would have been treated by the government as a cut and dried case of espionage. Publishing it for the world to read, the Times has accomplished the same end."

Key point to repeat when folks will inevitably try to downplay this espionage.

[johnny7]

The MSM is avoiding this story like it was AIDS, the plague and the Ebola virus rolled into one.

[Grampa Dave]

"Expect Journalistic Tongues to Loosen

By Jack Kelly

"Journalists will be paying rapt attention when Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman go on trial next month for violation of the Espionage Act of 1917.

"Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman were officials of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee. They received classified information from Lawrence Franklin, an analyst at the Department of Defense, which they passed on to an Israeli diplomat, and to journalists. They are the first private citizens ever to be prosecuted under the Espionage Act.

"Mr. Franklin pled guilty Jan. 20th and was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison, though his sentence could be reduced in exchange for testimony against Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman.

"Journalists note there is little difference between what Mr. Rosen and Weissman are accused of doing, and what reporters who have published stories based on leaks of classified information have done, and beads of sweat form on their brows. The chickens hatched when journalists demanded a special prosecutor be appointed in the Valerie Plame case are coming home to roost."

Puckertime is here for the law breakers of the MSM and the Senate.

[OldFriend]

Nothing compared to the glee the white house press whores get when they try to trap McClellan.