Posted on 04/21/2006 12:01:43 PM PDT by Howlin
Edited on 04/21/2006 12:47:23 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
mark to find timeout
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no sorry, I've been extra busy this week and wanted to be able track this from out of town. Used your name as the reminder.
It would have to be a role so undemanding that this certifiable dumb ass fool could handle it.
Remember, this is the Leftist asshole that couldn't find Bosnia on the globe presented to him on live television...WHILE HE WAS RUNNING FOR HIS SENATE SEAT!
The numb nuts in Oregon STILL elected him as Senator...
You just couldn't make this crap up....
The Senate is FULL of jerks that couldn't hold a management job at a Speedy Oil Change -- and they have the nation's security in their hands!
Be afraid folks....be very afraid.
Semper Fi
Why am I not surprised.... that another ill tempered, pinch faced leftist bitch is a lesbian?
I do wonder why so damned many of them are put in front of cameras or microphones to give us their opinion on everything.
I liked it a lot more when perverts "remained in the closet"...
Semper Fi
Good.
Clinton Veto Statement (notice the date)
"Today, I am disapproving H.R. 4392, the "Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001," because of one badly flawed provision that would have made a felony of unauthorized disclosures of classified information. Although well intentioned, that provision is overbroad and may unnecessarily chill legitimate activities that are at the heart of a democracy." etc
Actually this seems to be a pattern of his last days in office.
I found this in an article in the March issue of COMMENTARY:
Has the "New York Times" Violated the Espionage Act?
In what is a rather long, but excellently researched and argued article by Gabriel Schoenfeld on the legal aspects of the release of the NSA information, the case of the former analyst at Naval Intelligence Support Center Samuel Morison is discussed. This is what he writes:
"Things took a different turn a decade later with an obscure case known as United States of America v. Samuel Loring Morison. From 1974 to 1984, Morison, a grandson of the eminent historian Samuel Eliot Morison, had been employed as a part-time civilian analyst at the Naval Intelligence Support Center in Maryland. With the permission of his superiors, he also worked part-time as an editor of Jane’s Fighting Ships, the annual reference work that is the standard in its field. In 1984, dissatisfaction with his government position led Morison to pursue full-time employment with Jane’s."
"In the course of his job-seeking, Morison had passed along three classified photos, filched from a colleague’s desk, which showed a Soviet nuclear-powered aircraft carrier under construction. They had been taken by the KH-11 satellite system, whose electro-optical digital-imaging capabilities were the first of their kind and a guarded military secret. The photographs, which eventually appeared in Jane’s Defence Weekly, another publication in the Jane’s family, were traced back to Morison. Charged with violations of the Espionage Act, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to a two-year prison term.(5)"
"(5) In January 2001, a decade-and-a-half after his release, and following a campaign on his behalf by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Morison was granted a full pardon by President Bill Clinton on his final day in office."
In among all the other scandals of Clinton's last minute pardons this case was hardly noticed, and the consequences were probably not fully understood pre-9/11. However, it seems clear that Clinton had an interest in making sure that classified information would not be protected by legal constraints - probably for venal reasons.
Kudos to Boot Hill who noted the same information on the original FR-thread and linked to this site were the Morison case is discussed in light of the Plame/Wilson affair.
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