Rumsfield Says Nuke Leak Violated Law!!

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[Naspino]

Rumsfield just said that the leak to the LA Times violated the law and that leaks in Washington was a disease. My only thought is YES YES YES! The leaker needs to be tried for treason. We cannot improve our image among other peoples if we are constantly back-stabbed by our own senators and media.

[Mo1]

If you honestly think that Bush will call a demonRAT out on the carpet then you're fooling yourself. Sorry.

He won't have to .. the Media will do it for him ..

As for these rest of your comment .. might I add that he has only been in office .. what a year??

You really think he can do everything in one year???

[Mo1]

Democrats sneer at American lives

True .. but I don't think American's will take to kindly of Democrats putting their lives in danager

[gaspar]

No, it could not be "anyone" who leaked this. It goes back to the intelligence committees in the House or Senate.

[Robert_Paulson2]

Besides, everyone knows the dead are more reliable voters!

Were this a microsoft thread, I might be spitting venom at you via my keyboard. As it isn't however, I am still spewing, my dinner on my keyboard.

DAMN don, that was funny.

Next time don, do us all a favor and consider posting a "humor" tag up front. LMAO.

[MissAmericanPie]

I wish they would track this down, the news was leaked by someone in the congress and he needs to be hoisted up by his boot straps. Please let it be Sheila Jackson Lee

[lawdude]

"they don't recall giving that information to anyone in the news media........"

Per Mr. Leahy, "I was there when Tom didn't leak the info and he was there when I didn't leak it. Right Tom, old boy?"

"Why yes, Senator Leahy, when I was there I heard you NOT leak the info. See...that proves it!~

[L.N. Smithee]

This leak shows how desperate the Demos are for an issue that sticks. The classified report goes to the LA Times, and who is asked to comment on it simultaneously? Anti-nuke groups that didn't even exist during the Reagan admin!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I would love to see Arkin pulled before a Judge to name his source if this is indeed a National Security breech. Even it he doesn't name his source, its possible he could go to jail for contempt if it was a violation of law and he is covering the violator. Its a win-win deal as far as I can tell.

Journalism claims a right to protect sources. However, everybody and his brother can be a journalist; that's part of the direct meaning of "freedom of the press." That being so, being a journalist is--in the Constitution if not in case law--no big deal. I would love to see journalists' feet held to the fire to force disclosure of leaks.

If First Amendment protection would apply it would, ironically, have to the leaker and not to the leakee. That is, if I decide to place an ad in the paper the government can't prosecute the paper for printing the ad if I myself had a constitutional right to publish the information. But if I did not have that right--if the information was legally, legitimately classified--then the newspaper doesn't have a legitimate right to protect me from prosecution by concealing my identity.

The "protection of sources" racket was particularly galling when x42's minions were leaking information (which they legally had and which they could legally divulge) yet the administration was allowed by journalists to slander Ken Starr (who legally had the information but was legalally forbidden to divulge it) as being illicitly the source of the information.

[FreeLibertarian]

This is just a smoke screen, the leak was intentional to let our enemies know where the U.S. stands!

[3D-JOY]

I laughed all through your tirade!

This really deserves the comment: "why don't you tell us how you really feel?"

[GOP_1900AD]

As if that's future tense. Got news for you. There's already an arms race and we are not even off the starting block. While we talk about cutting 2/3 of our warheads, the cheating born again Soviets are still hiding the ones they've cheated on pie crust treaties with and are building new ones. The ChiCOMs are building up. So too are the Pakis and who knows who else. Welcome back to a reality that, as much as we wished it to have ended as we prematurely declared victory in 1991, has gotten even more troubling. What to do, what to do?....

[Don Carlos]

Thank Laz for your mirth, cuz it was he who made my reply spring to life! Come to think of it, bill him for your keyboard!

Regards!

[GOP_1900AD]

RE: mix of megatonnage and platforms. A fact long recognized by our nuclear armed potential adversaries. We were idiots to get rid of our tac nukes and denuke most of our cruise missiles. Now we must rebuild.

[GOP_1900AD]

You need to get a clue about proliferation. What we have and don't have in our arsenal has zero influence on the fastest growing nuclear powers and their arsenal make up. If the US followed your logic, we'd eventually end up getting black mailed. Are you one of those stealth anti-nuke activist types who was passing around those "sane freeze" petitions back around '82? Golitsyn warned us about so called "disarmament" and "peace movements" that had KGB as the head of the hydra. Well?

[dodger]

Increasingly ...

SABERTOOTH = SNAGGLETOOTH

[Ole Okie]

Increasingly ...

SABERTOOTH = SNAGGLETOOTH

Yeah, Snaggletooth has had a toothache for days, and has been increasingly unpleasant.

I presume it's a toothache, or a bellyache, or something similar.

Or he's off his meds.

[Miss Marple]

It seems to me that this report is required by law, every 6 years or so. If it is codified in a law, then the law also states to which committee(s) this report must be submitted.

It also will indicate the security clearance attached to the report.

If you know the committee, you can then narrow down the list of suspects.

[cajungirl]

I keep waiting for someone to mention Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. I don't see what the damn fuss is about, didn't everyone know we have nuclear contingency plans from way back. This just seems to be a modification of what we have always done. The real stinker was the headlines and the interpretation,,that we were on the verge of nuking someone. The entire thing is a tempest in a teapot and didn't threaten anyone's life. It is disiinformation and makes the Dems look bad and gives Rummy a chance to make them look bad. I wouldn't be surprised that the leak came out of the WH. I for one am glad we are looking at these contingencies and think everyone is except a few peaceniks held over from the 60's who are longing for another VN and another chance to play peace loving patriot and act like Bush is Nixon. Cheap tricks that fool noone. 911 changed everything, the war came to us and that makes it different.

[JusticeLives]

"...and some members of Congress did not accept that responsibility."

And when have they EVer?

[LiberalBuster]

gorush: excellent point. government criminals are the last to be charged with a crime, let alone brought to justice.