Posted on 07/16/2002 8:25:45 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:40:35 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WASHINGTON (AP) --
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
All the reports leaked are in fact decoys. Those who have leaked these reports have been identified, but not arrested. They know who they are and they will be in the first wave.
(I know I'm preaching to the choir here, bear with me)
Democratic Socialists of America share a vision of a humane international social order based on equitable distribution of resources, meaningful work, gender and racial equality, a healthy environment, sustainable growth, and non-oppressive relationships.
Members of DSA work in immediate struggles for justice — as we build a movement for long-term social change.
What they are saying is that they are a bunch of global communists.
Ahhh!...thanks for the clarification...I think I need glasses, or my eyes read too fast for my brain...That's it!...I don't need glasses, I need a brain!
FMCDH
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As House Whip, the second-ranking leadership position for the Democrats, Rep. Pelosi is a national spokesperson for the party and is responsible for the party's legislative strategy in the House and for keeping members informed about upcoming issues and votes. Congresswoman Pelosi is making the economy the central issue of the Whip operation. She believes that a sound fiscal policy and investment in the American people will promote economic growth to benefit everyone.
LEGISLATOR. In addition to her leadership role, Rep. Pelosi is the Ranking Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which exercises oversight of all U.S. government intelligence activities. Her focus on the committee is to ensure that the executive branch has the tools it needs to protect the United States - our armed forces, our national interests, and our civil liberties.
Rep. Pelosi is a senior member of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, where she has had considerable influence on funding the nation's priorities - both domestic and foreign. Her policy focus is on health care, quality education, affordable housing, intelligence, national security, environmental protection, and choice.
Congresswoman Pelosi serves on the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education, where she has focused on issues of key importance to the nation's families, such as education, minimum wage, workplace safety, and AIDS treatment and prevention. She has been a leader in doubling the NIH budget in five years; AIDS and breast cancer funding are her top priorities.
As the former Ranking Democrat on the Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations and Export Financing, Rep. Pelosi was instrumental in securing a sizable increase in funding for debt forgiveness for the world's poorest countries, as well as increases in foreign aid to alleviate poverty, fight the global AIDS pandemic, provide international family planning, and protect the global environment.
Nancy is a the 'spokesperson' for the Democratic Party.......and a member of the Progressive Caucus. Says quite a bit about the Democrats and their goals.
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, July 16, 2002 -- Military and civilian personnel who leak classified data are putting national security at risk and the practice must stop, said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in a memo to all members of the department.
"I have spoken publicly and privately countless times about the dangers of leaking classified information," the secretary wrote. "It is wrong. It is against the law. It costs the lives of Americans. It diminishes our country's chances for success."
Rumsfeld amplified his remarks during an interview on CNBC July 15. "Every once in a while, there are people in the United States government who decide that they want to break federal criminal law and release classified information, and they ought to be imprisoned," he said. "And if we find out who they are, they will be imprisoned."
He said the leaks are making it more difficult to track down terrorists globally. "Why people do it, I do not know," he said. "They obviously want to make themselves look important, and they have favorite reporters and press people that they think they can curry favor with. And they go to them and hand them things that ought not to be given to the public, and … they then appear in a public press."
An unclassified CIA report says a growing body of evidence indicates al Qaeda pays attention to the U.S. and foreign press and has gleaned valuable information about U.S. counterterrorism activities from the press.
"Information obtained from captured detainees has revealed that al Qaeda operatives are extremely security conscious and have altered their practices in response to what they have learned in the press about our capabilities," the reports states.
"Disclosures of classified information also reduce the willingness of potential allies, volunteers and other sources in foreign countries to work with us out of fear of having their cooperation publicized in the press," the report says.
Rumsfeld's memo is just the latest reminder to military and civilian personnel on the dangers leaking classified information poses not only to American troops, but the American population. The day after the attacks in New York and Washington, Rumsfeld asked Defense Department personnel to safeguard classified information.
"This is a message really for all the men and women in the United States government who have access to classified information," he said during a Pentagon briefing Sept. 12, 2001. "It seems to me that when they see or learn of someone who is handling classified information in a way that is going to put the lives of the men and women in uniform at risk, they ought to register exactly what kind of a person that is. It's a person who's willing to violate federal criminal statutes, and willing to frustrate our efforts to track down and deal with terrorists, and willing to reveal information that could cost the lives of men and women in uniform.
"I think it's time for all who deal with that information to treat it with the care and respect that it merits."
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Old saying: Those who talk don't know, those who know don't talk.
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