Special: Leak To Washington Post Is....

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[My Favorite Headache]

I do not know whether this has been posted here through another source or is being pulled in threads or not. But through military sources and a private document I saw with my own eyes 2 names have been listed as the leak to the Washington Post. p> Sen. Orrin Hatch Republican from Utah and Senator Diane Feinstein Democrat from California. If this is pulled I will understand. This source is 100% accurate. I am currently writing a piece on our national security at this current time for one of the papers I write for. This is bound to come out soon. So I figured I would post this here first.

[paddles]

If this is in fact true, I'm thinking Hatch is being lumped in w/DiFi because of the leaking incident he was previously involved in, so as to make this aberrant behavior "bipartisan."

I can't imagine Hatch would screw this pooch twice.

[LisaFab]

No matter who the leaks are identified as, they will probably be some of the same who took another oath in late January, 1999 to uphold the Constitution by conducting a 'trial' in the Senate.

Oaths aren't worth a hill of beans to some of these folks. "Treason, schmeason...I need to keep my press flacks happy."

[what's up]

The first leak I believe was a few weeks ago when Hatch let the cat out of the bag that Bin Laden's cell phone had been intercepted. That alerted Bin Laden to the fact that he should not use that line any longer.

The second leak was a couple of days ago when CIA officials briefed the Senate Intelligence committee that there was a 100% chance of retaliation in the US for bombing afganistan. According to the poster above, that may have been Feinstein.

[monkeywrench]

It makes you wonder if they communicate with the terrorists via the media, the way the terrorists are thought to.

[dead]

When Feinstein was mayor of San Francisco she blabbed to the media confidential info on the 'night stalker', alerting him just as the police were closing in.

Something about a distinctive pattern on his sneakers.

That’s exactly right. The police knew the exact, rather rare, brand and size of sneakers that was worn by the criminal as they closed in on their suspects. It was the only hard piece of evidence that they had.

DiFi, being a complete idiot, walked out of a briefing and announced this progress to the media. The suspect naturally destroyed his sneakers before the police could stop him, greatly weakening the case.

[BlueHorseShoe]

"...The Post reporter, at least, had a conscience..."

Wasn't it Woodward?

[abigkahuna]

Listen to the local radio this afternoon (1530 Sacramento) I am led to believe it was Leahy from Vermont. It wouldn't have been the first time. Supposedly one of his leaks lead to the death of an agent in the 80s.

[SunnyUsa]

Wow, great job MFH...

No surprises on either one really.....

This should prove embarressing to both of them, and in a way I'm glad it was one from ea party, (spread the shame)

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

thanks to all for the answers.

[GLDNGUN]

I assume the Wash Post heard it from one and then wanted to confirm it with the other, so one probably was the "lead" leak and the other was probably "yes, I can confirm that..." Am I close?

Yeah, DiFi I can believe. No wonder she was the one belly-aching over Bush's comments yesterday.

As for Hatch...very disappointing. He got in hot water right after the attack on Sept. 11th for the very same thing. I'm afraid he has a major ego problem. I have a theory of what is really going on with him, having to do with his religion but, not wanting to offend anyone, I'll keep it to myself. It doesn't really matter anyway because his little fantasy isn't going to come true even if my theory is correct.

Bush is right to keep info from anyone who can't keep a secret. I think these 2 senators should be given a choice: publically admit fault and apologize or face censure: slap your own hands, or we'll slap 'em for you. Realistically, nothing more than that will come of this.

[captain11]

We expect the Feinsteins to the wrong thing. But when your guys join in, it's a lot worse.

Are you suggesting it is better to not report this?

[Shermy]

It was Shelby.

[Ditto]

Somebody should remind her she represents the USA.

No she doesn't. She represents San Francisco and Hollywood --- that's not America.

[teletech]

Even the Washington Compost thought printing the most sensitive part of this material might get someone killed so these leakers, whoever they are, should be prosecuted. If Booby Hatch and Fine Swine did the leaking, that fact should be shouted to the world. Their shameless disgusting behavior should have jail time consequences.

[Jefferson Adams]

No surprise here.

Here either, Leni.

I once asked Helen Chenoweth, in person, how many decent people who have a clue we actually have in Congress. She hesitated about 3 or 4 seconds, and said, "Well, there is a handful."

[DoughtyOne]

Absolutely not! The sooner and louder the better.

[jungleboy]

I'd say, you've done your freeper duty, sir! Cheers:)

[jlogajan]

Innocentbystander was saying last night that he had it that everyone in Washington knew the leaker was McCain.

[Steven W.]

When this story came out in the papers last week and all of the critters came on TV I immediately recognized that the attack was imminent and predicted it would begin at Saturday @ 12:30 PM EST, thinking that Bush wouldn't start on Sunday - Bush fooled me, though - he started 24 hours later, exactly at the time I thought, but on Sunday, which was good (since Osama was fooled as well ). I even thought of posting on FR at the time and trying to get people to calm down and read between the lines of the "reporting" - but realized that I'd have to give away something I probably shouldn't, if my perceptions turned out to be accurate. But the fact Rumsfeld & Bush let the leakers leak stuff was key to the success of the plan IMHO - by having all the critters come out and announce that there was a 100% chance of an attack soon. That got people's attention and put the public on alert without spilling all the beans and then gave Bush & Rumsfeld the opportunity to blast the traitors that would place our troops at risk. Apparently, in counsel to 43, Bush 41 has indicated that one of his biggest mistakes during Gulf War was not prosecuting the Democrats who were then purposely leaking stuff to screw up the war effort & give Saddam cover as they then had no obligation to pretend they merely "supported the troops" while they (so openly) "opposed the war". IMHO this was brilliant planning on the part of Bush & Rumsfeld. When the "news" came out at the end of the week, last week, I was aghast - I found myself asking, why, oh why, would Rumsfeld let these people hear all this stuff when he knows - he had this prior experience - they would run out to the TV cameras, as before, and spill their guts - only to realize ... they wanted that to happen, to prepare the public for what was coming without alerting our enemies. In retrospect, I think the extra day's timing was a safety valve, just in case they didn't leak anything, as would be expected, and they had to give public warning in some other way.