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Schumer Wants to Know Motivation Behind NSA Leak
FOXNews.com ^
| 2 January 2006
Posted on 01/01/2006 6:17:52 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
WASHINGTON The investigation into who leaked information about a National Security Agency secret wiretapping program on potential terror suspects needs to focus on the motivation behind the leak, a Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday.
"There are differences between felons and whistleblowers, and we ought to wait 'til the investigation occurs to decide what happened," Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., told "FOX News Sunday."
The Justice Department on Friday opened an investigation into who leaked the information about the program, sparking debate over its threat to national security and presidential powers versus civil liberties.
The program, first revealed Dec. 16 by The New York Times, has used surveillance to review phone conversations and e-mails inside the United States without court warrants since after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
President Bush defended the program on Sunday, saying it is necessary and legal to prevent future terrorist attacks.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 109th; chucky; dopeydems; georgewbush; leaks; nationalsecurity; nsa; nyt; patriotleak; schumer; spying
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To: Thebaddog
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posted on
01/01/2006 6:42:58 PM PST
by
ThreePuttinDude
()......Politically incorrect by Intelligent Design........()
To: ChildOfThe60s
Again, you and many others are assuming this was an inside job at NSA or that some Senator or Representative in the know told the NYT.
What's wrong with thinking that it could be a case of old fashioned espionage, conducted by a foreign nation, or possibly even the NYT?
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posted on
01/01/2006 6:43:31 PM PST
by
muawiyah
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To: Aussie Dasher
Schumer's whistle blower better surface soon, If the FBI gets hold of the leaker first the leaker will go to jail and Schumer won't be able to save him.
To: ThreePuttinDude
celebraty = celebrity
DOH
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posted on
01/01/2006 6:44:35 PM PST
by
ThreePuttinDude
()......Politically incorrect by Intelligent Design........()
To: Aussie Dasher
Translation: "If, and I mean if, the leak originated with a Democrat Senator, Representative, or staffer, then it was a whistleblow, not a felony."
To: muawiyah
Listening to Chuck, it crossed my mind that he and a lot of others already know the leak source, and are concerned now with the fate of the leaker. If the Americans did not agree with the president on this issue (on the need for the surveilance), the democrats would likely be much more smug. But Chuck appeared ready to acknowledge that the leak investigation would find the perp, and it sounded a lot to me that we will find it is someone in the NSA at a lower level who decided on their own that this was more privacy invasion than they could handle, and sought to find a friendly ear. None inside, so they went outside. Just a guess, but time will tell.
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posted on
01/01/2006 6:50:10 PM PST
by
KC_for_Freedom
(Sailing the highways of America, and loving it.)
Pin the tail on the leaker(s).
To: oldenuff2no
Motivation:
If Sandy Berger can get away with it, why not try leaking classified info?
To: All
There are differences between felons and whistleblowers I robbed the bank to blow the whistle on the lack of security at that bank, that's all. Now can I go home?
Rat agitators at work.
To: Aussie Dasher
Sort of like the headline, "Fox shocked that the hen-house was broken into!"
Mark
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posted on
01/01/2006 6:52:24 PM PST
by
MarkL
(When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
To: Aussie Dasher
I don't give a damn what the "motivation" was!
Just like I didn't give a damn WHY the Islamic lunatics attacked us on 9/11.....
The current "leak" scandal CLEARLY represents A CRIME...
The CRIME may rise to the level of TREASON..
TREASON in time of WAR can result in DEATH....
Screw Schumer and all the "apologist" .....
I simply want to see the LAW applied....
ESPECIALLY if the "leaker" was a "Politician" or "Civil Servant".
These are precisely the same bastards that snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in Vietnam....
Time for them to step up to the gallows....
Semper Fi
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posted on
01/01/2006 6:53:38 PM PST
by
river rat
(You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
To: Aussie Dasher
I thought it was already
pretty much decided that Senator Rockefeller leaked it?
According to those officials and others, reservations about aspects of the program have also been expressed by Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, the West Virginia Democrat who is the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and a judge presiding over a secret court that oversees intelligence matters. Some of the questions about the agencys new powers led the administration to temporarily suspend the operation last year and impose more restrictions, the officials said. It does seem to suggest that Senator Rockefeller and a judge presiding over a secret court that oversees intelligence matters were sources for this leak, Strata hints. In fact, if Strata is right, Gonzales may already know that, for Strata adds that press reports to the contrary notwithstanding, Judge Robertson, an activist liberal judge, probably didnt resign, but rather was suspended for that very reason.
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posted on
01/01/2006 6:54:59 PM PST
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: FreedomCalls
To: Aussie Dasher
The JD should investigate Schumer since he seems to be up to speed on the leaker/leaker's identy. My suggestion to the RATS is to shut up or your a@@ will be sitting in a chair opposite an investigator. On second thought, keep talking.
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posted on
01/01/2006 6:58:54 PM PST
by
Logical me
(Oh, well!!!)
To: Logical me
The more confident Chucky seems the less likely he is to know anything about the topic.
He's just that way. Plus, he lies a lot.
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posted on
01/01/2006 7:02:09 PM PST
by
muawiyah
(-)
To: Laverne; radioproducer
In other words, if a democrat leaked it its whistleblowing; if a republican leaked it its felonious. Chucky is such a dweeb. I wonder if he is the leaker himself???You know something? You have it so right!
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posted on
01/01/2006 7:02:09 PM PST
by
Loud Mime
(Build the Border Wall - Enforce the Law)
To: A.A. Cunningham
If his hands were together and a little lower, he would qualify as a leaker....
ewww...
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posted on
01/01/2006 7:02:50 PM PST
by
Loud Mime
(Build the Border Wall - Enforce the Law)
To: Aussie Dasher
Hey, Chucky! If you bothered to read the Dem Strategy memos put out by Jay Rockefeller, you'd already know the motivation.
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posted on
01/01/2006 7:04:14 PM PST
by
LexBaird
("I'm not questioning your patriotism, I'm answering your treason."--JennysCool)
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To: victim soul
"If Sandy Berger can get away with it, why not try leaking classified info?"
You got that right.
I don't care who leaked this, they should be prosecuted.It's the same if they are off or Bush's staff, or a Democratic house member, they should hang them out to dry.
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