Posted on 08/11/2006 1:00:09 PM PDT by SmithL
The disruption of an alleged terrorist plot to blow up airliners shows the importance of intelligence gathering and the need to pursue the "traitors" who recently leaked information about classified government programs, Sen. Rick Santorum said Friday.
Those classified programs "were important for us to be able to confront an enemy in time of war," Santorum said. "When people leak that kind of information, to me, that is traitorous activity."
Santorum, the No. 3 Senate Republican, acknowledged that he did not know whether classified programs recently brought to light by leaks, such as a National Security Agency warrantless wiretapping program, were involved in heading off the alleged terrorist plan to smuggle explosive components onto passenger jets.
The Bush administration has harshly criticized reports that revealed the existence of the warrantless wiretap program as well as another secret government initiative that accesses a huge databank of bank records.
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Gee, another one that finally gets it.
Attaboy Rick!!! Give 'em hell.
I might be going out here on a limb but, I think it is possible Santorum, since he is the #3 repub in the senate, might be aware where some of the leak investigations are going, i.e. leading suspects and pending charges and they lead right to the doorstep of democrats.
ON Fox & Friends this morning they reported that the Pakistanis worked first exclusively with the UK before bringing the US into the loop because they were concerned about all the leaking from the US.
Not a thing has happened that I've heard of to the organizations and individuals responsible for the recent leaks.
Charges need to be brought regardless of who the leakers is.....That is the only way it is going to stop.
First "Islamic fascists" and now "traitors."
That's the America I used to think I was living in.
I'm STILL waiting for the hearings
Think the NYT and the other liberal rags will pick up a hint??
Please excuse the spelling errors. My son spilled a soda on my keyboard last night and some of the buttons are sticking still. I guess I need to clean it allot better.
"It is no mistake Senator Jay Rockefeller has been quiet and laying low"
BINGO. This is where all the leaks are coming from. His staffers. We need another FBI raid IMO.
Go Rick!
[crickets]
I'll follow you out on that limb with a big bump!
That is really great news.
It's called "delayed effect".
There is speculation that sounds accurate, that he may be trying to avoid a polygraph and testifying before a grand jury. His staffers along with other prominent democrats have been polygraphed. The word from Macranger is that several of them have failed.
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