[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

What about "cooperate or you're FIRED!",

or, "cooperate or you'll be thrown in PRISON!"?

[weegee]

Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING

[expatpat]

It appears that our intelligence agencies have been fully penetrated by socialists.

[Txsleuth]

Check THIS out....

I wonder WHY Congress isn't all over this? Could it be because part of Congress doesn't want the truth out???

[mewzilla]

This is why we have grand juries.....

[redgirlinabluestate]

I am starting to think there really is some sort of cabal within our own government working against us.

[TheKidster]

Wow, so if you're under an FBI investigation all you have to do is cancel interviews and refuse to cooperate and you're off the hook!

I wonder if that would work for us citizens/serfs?

[sissyjane]

Am I shocked? No! Disgusted? YES!

[listenhillary]

Stop the paychecks of those that didn't cooperate. Problem solved.

[listenhillary]

Move their desks down with the rats and take their red staplers.

[Zack Nguyen]

However, a former Justice Department official said the vast majority of leak probes originate at the CIA.

What a shame.

[andy58-in-nh]

I believe our intelligence agencies are managed by career bureaucrats for whom the job and perquisites are primary, and the mission secondary. Many of these bureaucrats appear to be liberal Democrats who detest the Bush Administration and its policies and have no interest in promoting them. One suspects that they spend their days in meetings, or by creating purposefully obfuscatory documents of appalling complexity and little functional use other than to provide evidence of work product. They leak to the media because their jobs are never truly threatened. They can wait out any Administration, because it will one day be gone. They, on the other hand, will be there forever.

[imskylark]

So, I can go and commit a crime, blow the police off, refuse to cooperate and then the case will be closed? /sarc

[buck61]

Recently read that the spy agency's are having a difficult time filling employment slots with confident personal.

Sounds like a crock of bull to me. There would be plenty of special forces personal who would easily fill the slots.

[kerryusama04]

The leaks, Berger's absolution, and the whole "I'm not firing Rumsfeld" thing, I am going out on a limb and saying that I am not going to be voting for George W. Bush for President in 2008.

[caisson71]

We'll never be taken seriously by the rest of the world, much less our own citizens, if we cannot police ourselves. This is the disgusting results of big government.

[savedbygrace]

Assuming he's serious about finding the leakers, the President should have the necessary authority to order the cases reopened, and issue an order that anyone who fails to cooperate with the probes is to be immediately removed from duty or, if possible, fired.

[Zack Nguyen]

"I can say as a matter of first principle that the unauthorized disclosure of classified information has actually led to the deaths of individuals."

This should lead to outrage on the part of all concern. The President should force the agencies in question to cooperate, or start firing people.

[Zack Nguyen]

He said resistance may sometimes be because of legitimate concerns about further dissemination of sensitive data.

This is fair, but would a leak investigation by the FBI be any more damaging than the information already leaked?

[LexBaird]

What we need is a nonpartisan Congressional blue ribbon panel to study this and make recommendations. I suggest Sandy Burglar for the committee chair, with Valerie Plame as co-chair.