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KERRY: 'IF YOU'RE LEAKING TO TELL THE TRUTH...'(On CIA leak/firing)
The Drudge Report ^
| april 23, 2006
| drudge
Posted on 04/23/2006 7:07:47 AM PDT by blogblogginaway
KERRY: 'IF YOU'RE LEAKING TO TELL THE TRUTH...' Sun Apr 23 2006 09:58:06 ET
Former presidential candidate John Kerry has come to the defense of a fired CIA officer accused of disclosing classified information to the press.
"I'm glad she told the truth but she's going to obviously -- if she did it, if she did it, suffer the consequences of breaking the law,' Kerry explained to ABC THIS WEEK.
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ABC 'THIS WEEK' HOST GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: On another -- on another front, excuse me, CIA official Mary McCarthy lost her job this week for disclosing classified information according to the CIA probably about a WASHINGTON POST story which reveal revealed the existence of secret prisons in Europe. A lot of different views. Senator Pat Roberts praised action but some former CIA officers described Mary McCarthy as a sacrificial lamb acting in the finest American tradition by revealing human rights violations. What's your view?
SEN. KERRY: Well, I read that. I don't know whether she did it or not so it's hard to have a view on it. Here's my fundamental view of this, that you have somebody being fired from the CIA for allegedly telling the truth, and you have no one fired from the white house for revealing a CIA agent in order to support a lie. That underscores what's really wrong in Washington, DC Here.
STEPHANOPOULOS: That's one issue of hypocrisy but should a CIA officer be able to make decisions on his or her --
KERRY: ... Of course not. Of course, not. A CIA agent has the obligation to uphold the law and clearly leaking is against the law, and nobody should leak. I don't like leaking. But if you're leaking to tell the truth, Americans are going to look at that, at least mitigate or think about what are the consequences that you, you know, put on that person. Obviously they're not going to keep their job, but there are other larger issues here. You know, classification in Washington is a tool that is used to hide the truth from the American people. Daniel Patrick Moynihan was eloquent and forceful in always talking about how we needed to, you know, end this endless declassification that takes place in this city, and it has become a tool to hide the truth from Americans.
STEPHANOPOULOS: These --
SEN. KERRY: So I'm glad she told the truth but she's going to obviously -- if she did it, if she did it, suffer the consequences of breaking the law.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cia; kerry; kerry2008; leaks; leakymccarthyism; marymccarthy; nationalsecurity; traitors; unfit
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To: petercooper
...those two aren't reacting to the results of the election,their reacting to his allowance Tereeeeeza gives him when she's out of town
61
posted on
04/23/2006 7:43:07 AM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF ...7th AF...408MMS..Ubon ,Thailand..."69"..Night Line Delivery ..AMMO!!)
To: blogblogginaway
A CIA agent has the obligation to uphold the law and clearly leaking is against the law, and nobody should leak.... BUT if you're leaking to tell the truth, Americans are going to look at that, at least mitigate or think about what are the consequences that you, you know, put on that person.Thanks for the post. Kerry is ridiculous. He can't give a straight answer about anything -- every point he makes has a "but," when a real leader would say "therefore."
To: blogblogginaway
So Kerry would have tipped-off the Japs if he knew about the bomb?
63
posted on
04/23/2006 7:46:37 AM PDT
by
CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
(Toon Town, Iran...........where reality is the real fantasy.)
To: blogblogginaway; CMS; The Sailor; txradioguy; Jet Jaguar; Defender2; OneLoyalAmerican; bkwells; ...
"Yes, indeed- John Kerry thinks it's 1971 all over again. Yesterday, on "Face the Nation"
John Kerry once again slams American troops- Check it out-
"And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the-of-the historical customs, religious customs."
Here is the transcript for "Face the Nation"-
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/face_120405.pdf
You will find this statement at the bottom of page 4 and the top of page 5.
"When former Attorney General Ramsey Clark isnt defending Saddam Hussein, or giving speeches for the crypto-Stalinist International ANSWER, hes acting as counsel for the Palestine Liberation Organization, trying to prevent families of murdered Jews from collecting on judgments against the PLO."
Little Green Footballs ^ | November 28, 2005 | Charles Johnson
From Kerry's "The New Soldier":
Al Hubbard Sgt., 22 Troop Carrier Squadron Aug. 65-June 66
Emotions: Walking down the flight line at Saigon past stacks of aluminum cases containing American bodies and past stacks of aluminum luggage containing American currency. Seeing the tight, sad face of an Airman loading the bodies aboard a dirty Air Force Transport and the wide smiling face of a stewardess greeting the passengers aboard a clean Pan American Clipper Jet. Hearing a Vietnamese beg you to leave his country and an American colonel tells you to bomb his country. Hearing a Vietnamese invite you to live in his home, after the war and an American explain why you cant live in his block, after the war. Flying over barren, brown, safe American held terrain and over lush, green unsafe enemy terrain. Feeling happy to be leaving a country in which you do not belong and sad to be returning to a country in which you are not allowed to belong. Sacrificing a portion of your consciousness so you wont have to deal with being there and building mental blocks so you wont have to deal with having been there.
- Al Hubbard, proven fraud who never set foot in Viet Nam. The only Vietnamese he ever met was when he was collaborating with the North Vietnamese in Paris on the American Communist Party's nickel.
John Kerry's explanation: "He (Hubbard) simply exaggarated his particular position.
But nobody knew it at the time.
And those things happen."
Free online version of
hanoi kerry's playbook "The New Soldier"
You can read it online right now.
To: hershey
Don't your mean, and he got a Purple Heart for it.
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posted on
04/23/2006 7:48:45 AM PDT
by
depressed in 06
(Democrats are, just, socialists without the honesty.)
To: blogblogginaway
But if you're leaking to tell the truth, Americans are going to look at that, at least mitigate or think about what are the consequences that you, you know, put on that person. How about someone leading the date of D Day in World War II. If the leaked Date was the truth would that mitigate the leak .. Senator Kerry? How many American toops does a leak have to kill before it stops being Ok to leak the truth?
To: blogblogginaway
To: blogblogginaway
Could Kerry possibly make a stupider statement? What he left out is that "it wasn't the truth" and it was done for one reason.
Someone should also tell Kerry that the Pres order to leak regarding the Joe and Valerie connection was his right. Kerry says to "get the truth out there". Well, duh, that's exactly what the Prez did.
Joe Wilson's trip was "phoney". He didn't sign a "non-disclosure" agreement or issue a written report and his conclusion was that if they were seeking yellow cake, they would have been doing it "illegally".
In other words, he searched only legal ways that Saddam could obtain yellow cake.
Obviously, Saddam COULDN'T obtain it legally. The sanctions would have prevented that. Joe's trip was a big setup.
I'm still betting that a friend of Joe's leaked her name BEFORE it got to Novak and Woodward.
68
posted on
04/23/2006 7:50:54 AM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
69
posted on
04/23/2006 7:51:53 AM PDT
by
E.G.C.
To: blogblogginaway
If she did it? Which part of she confessed doesn't Kerry understand?
70
posted on
04/23/2006 7:53:28 AM PDT
by
Peach
To: blogblogginaway
I'm convinced they only invite Kerry to these talk shows for the laughs he provides.
71
posted on
04/23/2006 7:54:00 AM PDT
by
F.J. Mitchell
(Hanging or firing squad, was not deemed cruel or inhumane execution by writers of the Constitution.)
To: blogblogginaway
To: martin_fierro
Notice what the Dow was doing while he admitted defeat?
73
posted on
04/23/2006 7:58:16 AM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(Every time a toilet flushes,another liberal gets his brains.)
To: Perdogg
Ain`t that something,dishonored the uniform he wore.
Slandered the US troops in VN as war criminals.
Defending a Democrat traitor with the CIA trying to bushwack
Pres Bush.
A hero to the VN Commies today.
The Dim candidate for President of the USA,Unbelievable.
To: petercooper
Take a good look at some of your fellow Americans.Pretty scary is it not?
75
posted on
04/23/2006 8:00:56 AM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(Every time a toilet flushes,another liberal gets his brains.)
To: blogblogginaway
Here's a transcript of his speech yesterday...
"Vietnam Veteran... 3 Purple Hearts... Swift Boat vets are liars... I support the troops... Vietnam Vets are war criminals... Bush Lied... I wanna be President... Vietnam Vet... 3 Purple Hearts... Bush lied... I am relevant... Bush lied... Vietnam Vet... Bush lied."
To: blogblogginaway
Where's the 180???????????
77
posted on
04/23/2006 8:03:37 AM PDT
by
Unicorn
(Too many wimps around.)
To: blogblogginaway
Kerry is whisling past the investgative committee room.. trying to appear "normal/unconcerned"...
OH YEAH there is no investigative committee YET!... i.e. if theres a leak in the bucket, it would seem practical TO FIND OUT IF THE BUCKET HAS OTHER LEAKS to fix the freepin bucket.. A rusty bucket is a National Security ISSUE... Has NO republican a torch to patch the BUCKET?...
78
posted on
04/23/2006 8:07:59 AM PDT
by
hosepipe
(CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole..)
To: blogblogginaway
Is ANYONE aware that the stuff this traitor leaked was phony, that the EU has investigated and found NO EVIDENCE of the secret prison system? In other words, this piece of traitorous scum took information that was fed to her on purpose as a test, and she revealed it to harm the administration, BUT IT WAS ALL FALSE!!!! And the reporters got a Pullitzer for it!
79
posted on
04/23/2006 8:11:04 AM PDT
by
TheGeezer
(I.will.never.vote.for.John.McCain.)
To: TheGeezer
I hope we do have a secret prison in Europe to house these Islamic scum without the press coming down and crying over them .
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