Posted on 10/20/2006 1:59:35 PM PDT by Republican Red
Traitors.
Thanks for the article!!
Hoekstra is on Fox News right now!
The Harmen press release is great! Why don't you add it to this longer running thread? They'll love it over there!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1722672/posts?q=1&&page=201
Goes right into Harmen's office.
Hoekstra is doing great. He has ZERO TOLERANCE for leaks of clasified information!
Treason
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In law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to one's nation or state. A person who betrays the nation of their citizenship and/or reneges on an oath of loyalty and in some way willfully cooperates with an enemy, is considered to be a traitor. Oran's Dictionary of the Law (1983) defines treason as: "...[a]...citizen's actions to help a foreign government overthrow, make war against, or seriously injure the [parent nation]." In many nations, it is also often considered treason to attempt or conspire to overthrow the government, even if no foreign country is aided or involved by such an endeavour.
Traitor may also mean a person who betrays (or is accused of betraying) their own political party, family, friends, ethnic group, religion, or other group to which they may belong. Often, such accusations are controversial and disputed, as the person may not identify with the group of which they are a member, or may otherwise disagree with the group leaders making the charge. See, for example, race traitor.
At times, the term "traitor" has been levelled as a political epithet, regardless of any verifiable treasonous action. In a civil war or insurrection, the winners may deem the losers to be traitors. Likewise the term "traitor" is used in heated political discussion – typically as a slur against political dissidents, or against officials in power who are perceived as failing to act in the best interest of their constituents. In certain cases, as with the German Dolchstoßlegende, the accusation of treason towards a large group of people can be a unifying political message.
Figures in history who are renowned for acts of treachery have subsequently had their names become synonymous with the word "traitor". Some examples are Judas, Benedict Arnold, Pétain and Quisling.
Hoekstra is saying that as Chairman, he is responsible to make sure that NO intelligence information is leaked from the House committees...
He said that there are too many red flags...and it is too important to the country to just ignore them.
He said he only suspended him from seeing classified information..he didn't fire him...but, they will conduct a thorough investigation and if/when he is cleared they will be reinstated..
But they HAVE to make sure that classified information is kept SECRET!
Jane can you give us a report?
Of course she has. Anyone that follows her knows she's a walking talking treasonous siv.
Her hubris and self-absobtion knows no bounds.
Hoekstra did a very good job in that interview. He's right in saying it's his responsibility as Chairman and he has a zero tolerance policy.
This staffer is just one thread . . . I hope soon we see the whole thing unravel.
Pretty scandalous stuff. She's little more than a shill for harmful politicking.
Harmon needs to resign immediately and take lalapelosi with her.
I was very impressed with Hoekstra...
Hoelstra should ask the Justice Dept to open an investigation and get these people under OATH!
Saw that. And he said there's a zero tolerance policy about this, but if that's true: remove until the investigation clears them. What does zero tolerance mean here?
I gave a thumbnail report on post #9...
Others have also added to it..
Basically Hoekstra is letting it be known that classified information is NOT to be leaked.
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