This old bird has been stewing for a long time but is still tough and stringy.
Posted on 04/17/2018 3:17:28 PM PDT by GeaugaRepublican
A former Minneapolis FBI agent caught leaking classified documents to The Intercept pleaded guilty in federal court in St. Paul Tuesday afternoon.
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
i thought punishment for this was reassignment to HR.
This old bird has been stewing for a long time but is still tough and stringy.
As if a Deep State leaker has been prosecuted and there're more to follow.
Idiot. He should’ve known, you don’t leak directly to the Intercept. You put it on your private server and let ‘em know to come and get it.
Another dirty FBI cop.
The corruption at the FBI is contained and only at the very top.
Ha Ha Ha. Just kidding.
Former Minnesota FBI agent cites racism in explaining leak
http://www.startribune.com/former-minnesota-fbi-agent-pleads-guilty-to-leaking-to-media/480027843/
FUFBI!
Intercept Co-founder Goes Off the Rails, Compares Dick Cheney to ‘Butcher’ Assad
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3542675/posts
The Intercept’s parent company is First Look Media
Will eBay Founders Omidyar's First Look Media Make Waves? Ecommercebytes blog ^ | Julia Wilkinson Posted by BansheeBill
eBay Founder Pierre Omidyar is starting a news outlet called First Look Media. In the site's animated video, he describes it as "a new kind of marriage between a technology company and a new kind of newsroom," and that one of its goals will be to "make it easier for journalists to deliver the transformative stories we all need."
Omidyar is known as a philanthropist, and has put his money where his mouth is (in this case, he is reportedly investing $250 million in the First Look venture). His Omidyar Network - with its funding of many altruistic initiatives such as microfinance web site Kiva, and the open-government-promoting Sunlight Foundation, according to this piece in The Economist - "practises "venture philanthropy" - developing a non-profit start-up in the same way as a new business venture, except for not expecting it to make money one day."
One could arguably also say he is an optimist, as one of his founding tenets for eBay was that "people are basically good." And with his foray into media, he joins other ecommerce titans such as Jeff Bezos, who recently bought The Washington Post for $250 million.
But with his hiring of Glenn Greenwald, known as the reporter with the key to Edward Snowden's NSA leaks, for the First Look venture, he may also be showing he is not afraid of controversy. Snowden has been called everything from a hero to a traitor. And Snowden will be a key part of First Look's first digital magazine, launching next week: "The magazine, which will be the first in a series of single-topic online publications from First Look, will focus on Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks," according to this piece in AdWeek.
The title will apparently be announced via Twitter. Omidyar is no stranger to Twitter, and in fact his interest in journalism played out in a public Twitter debate about journalists' obligations to protect sources, and under what circumstances, summarized here via Pando.
While many hail Snowden and Greenwald as bravely exposing threats to our civil liberties and government over-spying, some see Snowden's actions as hypocritical and "with gravely destructive effect," such as Edward Lucas in this Wall Street Journal piece.
Even The Washington Post has published criticism of Snowden: He "has taken sanctuary in Russia, a country that, when it was under communist control, epitomized the idea of a surveillance state," and today "is a quasi-democracy that has retained some features of its communist past." And further "over the past decade or so, under the tutelage of President Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer, it has been sliding ever deeper back into authoritarianism."
And Robert Samuelson wrote that while we "should debate the NSA...The NSA controversy has "significantly damaged the trust between the private sector and government." This may be the Snowden affair’s most insidious (and overlooked) consequence."
The Snowden affair notwithstanding, Omidyar's new venture promises to be interesting. As Omidyar says in the First Look site video, "journalism is about telling stores that make a difference." And if the organization is successful, "we will have contributed to the greater good."
Multi-multi-tier.
Minnesota FBI agent who leaked secret documents pleads guilty he gets prosecuted yet Comey,Clinton, Yates all get a pass. This agent should have been held to the same std as the three mentioned
A former Minneapolis FBI agent caught leaking classified documents to The Intercept pleaded guilty in federal court in St. Paul Tuesday afternoon.
Thanks GeaugaRepublican.
After listening to Comey pushing his book, and knowing what a egotistical liar he is, can we blame the rot in the FBI on him? Or had it started and formented long before that?
That's Glenn Greenwald's publication. He's a lefty, but an honest one and a scourge of the "deep state". He broke a lot of the Snowden material.
“seems like the FBI likes to let things stew and instigate and coerce until they evildoer does something big”
Never let a crisis go to waste.
When it blows up it is always for the cause of us losing our civil liberties, never for scaling back affirmative action or immigration.
Comey was fired.
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