Posted on 05/01/2018 3:29:28 AM PDT by SkyPilot
The CIA can selectively divulge classified information to selected reporters in emails yet withhold that information from other journalists or members of the public when they seek the same information under the Freedom of Information Act, a federal judge in New York has ruled
The decision appeared in the court record on Friday but became more widely disseminated Monday.
The ruling comes amid vigorous national debate over leaks to the media and the use of anonymous sources in covering national security news, including an ongoing FBI investigation into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 presidential election.
Judge Colleen McMahon of the Southern District of New York ruled that the CIA does not have to release parts of five emails senior CIA officials sent to journalists from the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and The Washington Post in 2012. At the time, the CIA was facing pressure over links it may have had to a Pakistani doctor who helped American forces hunt down Osama bin Laden.
The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by Adam Johnson, a freelance reporter, who was represented by a first amendment lawyer in New York City, Daniel Novack.
The Director of Central Intelligence is free to disclose classified information about CIA sources and methods selectively, if he concludes that it is necessary to do so in order to protect those intelligence sources and methods, and no court can second guess his decision, McMahon ruled.
McMahon ruled that such communication is not part of the public domain, and that the CIA was within its rights to discuss protected information in emails to reporters of certain media outlets, just as the media outlets are protected by law when sued to divulge anonymous sources.
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Speaking of doing what they do,
Is the US Congress in session?
What the hell are the swamp dwellers doing?
Working on the next years budget?
Legislation for immigration?
Are they alive?
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Congress wants power and prestige without responsibility. That, and lining their pockets with insider deals (e.g. McConnell and the Chinese).
It’s Satanist when the tip points downward.
It’s a ward against demons when the tip points upward (as in Goethe’s “Faust,” where Faust’s pentagram traps the poodle-disguised Mephistopheles).
Fascism pure and simple.
I believe that is not a Star of David but a witchcraft symbol.
Even still, including the Bilderbergs and Rothschilds in there simply makes it look like extremists.
And I love Ben Garrison’s work.
“Releasing” information selectively to handpicked outlets but keeping it withheld from others is also known as “leaking”.
https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/deep-state-swamp-ben-garrison_1_orig.jpg
As I dont believe in demons et al, it just superstition nonsense to me.
Doesnt change my faith in God or his punishments. Just dont believe in demons on earth. There are enough honest to goodness, human people out there who qualify to fill that role.
Time to start “nailing” the journalists and their participation in the leaking scheme.
Bring this infected pimple to a head and squeeze it.
Reporters don’t have to release sources or notes and their publishers are held harmless because of first amendment rights.
However, when charged with the criminal felony of conspiracy to overthrow the government a warrant can be issued for everything in the offices of the paper. Knowing what his reporters are doing, the publisher becomes part of the conspiracy. Judges who try to deflect the conspiracy charges become part of the conspiracy
I think the original upward-pointing pentagram was a symbol/abbreviation for “Jesus Christos.” You can see a “J” and a Greek chi in there.
Sky—Outstanding post!
The Intelligence Community is treating the American public as a belligerent hostile power subject to the full arsenal of information warfare—and we pay their salaries to do it!
That is one of the Deep State’s “secret” “sources and methods” protected by the dirtbag judge.
The ruling by the judge...
<>https://fas.org/sgp/jud/johnson-cia-042618.pdf
Then tackle the 576 pages of released material. Start at the end and work up....Right off the bat, Juan Williams.
<>https://theintercept.com/document/2014/09/04/email-correspondence-reporters-cia-flacks/
I don’t see the face of a single judge in the swamp. If the number of blackrobed crooks were included in the swamp, no one would notice the faces of the politicians. The number of blackrobes would simply overwhelm the picture.
It not a Star of David, it is a Pentagram, a symbol of Satanism.
Sad straw man argument. Intellectually infantile illogical comment on your part.
Which Semites? Garrison has had many Muslim semites in cartoons too.
Grrrr.
We need to get rid of these activist judges. This is just more cover for Project Mockingbird.
This ruling is why you Wikileaks
Star of David is 6 points.
That, is a PENTagram (Satanic symbol), 5 points
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