Posted on 12/30/2005 7:26:42 AM PST by Pukin Dog
Just announced on Fox News, the Justice Department is going to investigate leaks pertaining to Goverment Wiretapping and Security programs.
Anyway, I posted the part that pertains, IMO, to scummy Risen and the NY Slimes and that they are not immune from prosecution as Freeper angkor was saying. "Publishes" seems pretty clear to me.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/752307/posts
Federal judge’s ties to Islamic radical to be exposed
By Rick Wiles
American Freedom News
Copyright June 6, 2002
American Freedom News has learned that Attorney General John Ashcroft has been told that a sitting federal judge has close ties to Islamic radicals. He is suspected of being the same federal judge who refused to authorize over 20 FBI wiretaps on al-Qaeda suspects before September 11.
Judge Royce Lamberth is the chief judge in the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court (FISA) that meets weekly in the Justice Department to consider requests from federal agents for wiretaps of terrorist and espionage suspects. The secretive court was established in 1978 under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Judge Lamberth presides over the secret court that has authorized over 7,500 wiretaps.
Barbara Honegger, a senior analyst in the Defense Department, made the accusation to an FBI agent that Judge Lamberth’s relationship with Islamic radicals is suspicious. Honegger is a former member of the Reagan administration who held several sensitive positions.
According to intelligence reporter Martin Dillon, Honegger wrote a blistering memo to Attorney General John Ashcroft demanding that Judge Lamberth be investigated. Dillon reported that Honegger’s memo to Ashcroft states:
“It is absolutely critical that Congress obtain the list of the names of the up to 20 suspected Al Qaeda and other Islamic extremist operatives whose wiretaps were shut down or refused by Judge Royce Lambert and the FISA Court and match them with the names of the 20 9/11 hijackers, as well as with the names of all post 9/11 detainees held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and elsewhere,”
When questioned by intel reporter Martin Dillon, Honegger told him:
“In the mid 1980s, an Iranian fluent in Farsi, Arabic, Urdu, Russian, and a number of other languages was in frequent contact by telephone with someone he described as `my good buddy Royce, an important judge in Washington, who got me into this country.’ Further questioning of this individual, who also claimed to be a mullah able to perform Islamic marriages and funerals, led to me being told that the last name of the Washington judge was Lamberth.
Honegger said she sent an “Extreme Alert” memo to Ashcroft on September 19, 2001, insisting that Judge Lamberth be investigated. The memo also went to Thomas Picard, the FBI agent in charge of the September 11 investigation. Her memo informed Ashcroft and Picard that Judge Lamberth “may have himself been acting with and on behalf of Islamic extremists.”
She said an FBI agent Sean Moore questioned her on April 4, 2002. Honegger also told Martin that both the House and Senate intelligence oversight committees are aware of her accusations.
According to Martin’s report, Honegger told him:
“Given this context, it is critical to the 9-11 Congressional investigation that, prior to 9-11, this same Chief FISA Court Judge Royce Lamberth shut down "up to 20" FISA wiretaps of Al Qaeda-related suspects linked to the near-simultaneous -- "twin" -- 1998 Africa U.S. embassy bombings. These 20 may well be, or significantly overlap with, the 20 9-11 hijackers -- 19 plus suspected "20th hijacker," Zacarias Moussaoui.
“It is therefore absolutely critical that Congress obtain the list of names of all of the "up to 20" suspected Al Qaeda and other Islamic extremist operatives whose wiretaps were shut down or refused by Judge Lamberth and the FISA Court, and match them with the names of the 20 9-11 hijackers, as well as with the names of all post 9-11 detainees held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and elsewhere.”
LMAO!
The ACLU should go away - or just be deported.
Oh, I've got a feeling they do. Now they need to pay for it.
Agree 100%
I solved that problem by getting a laptop and wireless modem. You can do both at the same time.
NY Times writers' autodialers are burningup dialing law firms.
LOL.....no she couldn't be, could she? You think she's been taking lessons from Monica?
Thanks for looking that up. Is this Lamberth still in office?
I long for the good old days, when traitors like him would meet with a sudden "accident"...you know--his brakes would fail going down a steep hill; his canoe would tip over; his house would go on fire and the smoke alarms wouldn't work.
...but I digress...
If convicted, I'm sure they'll sue to be allowed to wear "prison green."........lol.
For a great-granny, you sure are tech-savvy!
James Risen.
YOU ARE GONNA NEED SOME REALLY EXPENSIVE LAWYERS.
Just a hopelessly addicted news junky. It works great!! I recommend it.
A violation depends on what is published. Publication of classified information other than the four points listed would not be a violation of the section.
In the NSA case, it appears that the NYT may have published classified information concerning the communication intelligence activities of the United States, where The term ''communication intelligence'' means all procedures and methods used in the interception of communications and the obtaining of information from such communications by other than the intended recipients.
Section 798 also has a mandatory asset forfeiture provision.
Not this time. Sit back, get some popcorn.
God Bless the American Nation, the people, the Freepers, the young men and women that give their lives to give us our liberty.
I believe you are seeing the result of dedicated, legal pursuit of illegal, unethical, and treasonous behavior, and the administration in charge is about to play their hand.
That sounds real bad. So did anything happen after Honegger wrote those memos?
Better late than never!!!!
I agree with your prediction, in a way.
If, by Texas-style, you mean the way he governed in Texas, then I am on board.
By that I mean, he followed the laws, regardless to consequence to himself.
Those who have so glibly accused the President of not following the laws, are going to be very sorry they opened their mouths.
He had nothing to hide, and they do.
Hint for James Risen; If you drop the soap just let it go.
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