“The damage has been very severe to our capabilities to carry out our mission,” then-CIA director Porter Goss told the Senate Intelligence Committee on February 2, referring to the Times’s December 16 TSP story. “I use the words ‘very severe’ intentionally. And I think the evidence will show that.” The Times’s revelations, Goss testified, left intelligence sources “no longer viable or usable, or less effective by a large degree.”
I wonder who gave the information to the Times?
I doubt that anyone at the newspaper has a classified clearance - and whoever would give the information to the newspaper, IMO would give it directly to the terrorists as well.
They need to worry less about the newspaper and more about the newspaper's source, I think.
Both. They should identify and jail the leakers in the administration, certainly. But they should also jail the publisher, editor, and reporters responsible for publishing these stories and endangering our nation's security and the safety of their fellow citizens.
The fact that Bush has sat back and done NOTHING through this whole string of treasonous acts is disgraceful.
Paul O'Neill works into this somehow.
http://www.saanet.org/kashipur/docs/seenalum.htm
There is a dynamic to the Clinton/Rich/O'Neill battles that I have never quite been able to figure out. Apparently Rich had Alcoa over a barrel and Clinton brokered a truce. According to this article Rich was afraid an O'Neill lead Treasury Department would come after him again. Never happened. Google Clinton and O'Neill and see just how much time they spend together on the rubber chicken circuit. Strange, just strange.