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'Leaky Leahy' Suspected in Leaked 9-11 Committee Report
newsmax ^ | 8/28/02 | Limbacher

Posted on 08/28/2002 10:19:39 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection

A day after a draft copy of the Senate Judiciary Committee's report on pre-9-11 intelligence failures was leaked to the New York Times, conservative media leader Rush Limbaugh called for the resignation of committee chairman Sen. Patrick 'Leaky' Leahy, D-Vt., because of his history of leaking classified material to the press.

"There's no way that Patrick Leahy ought to be chairing this committee considering that it receives classified information and oversees the FBI's counterterrorism activities," Limbaugh told his audience near the top of his Wednesday radio broadcast.

"You remember Patrick Leahy," he reminded. "He had to resign from the Senate Intelligence Committee some time ago now for leaking a draft report about the Iran-Contra matter to the media."

The radio host was referring to the worst scandal in the Senate Intelligence Committee's history, where Leahy was compelled to confess that he had allowed an NBC News reporter to review the top secret Iran-Contra document after denying previous reports that he was a chronic leaker. [See: 'Leaky Leahy'].

"I doubt the release of this report was authorized," Limbaugh observed about the latest Leahy connected leak. "Otherwise, why would the people releasing it want their names kept secret?"

In its report on the leaked material the Times noted, "A draft copy of the [9-11] report was provided to the New York Times by Congressional officials on condition that they not be identified."

The document leaked by Leahy's committee concentrated on FBI intelligence lapses during President Bush's first eight months in office.

"I mean, look, if Leahy is not fit to sit on the Intelligence Committee, what business does he have running the Judiciary Committee," the conservative talker maintained. He noted also that Leahy has a long history of opposing the Bush administration for partisan reasons.

The Leahy committee document was leaked to the Times just days after the FBI intensified it's probe into earlier Senate leaks of classified 9-11 material.

After requesting last month that senators involved in the 9-11 probe take lie detector tests, the FBI asked 17 senators to turn over phone and computer records this weekend.

Because none of the senators were identified by name, it's not clear whether Leahy was among those targeted by the request.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: 911; leahyleaks
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To: mware
Newmax got it right. Here is a part of todays NYT article regarding the leak.

The report by the 19-member Senate Judiciary Committee will be made public next month, but the Times obtained a draft copy on Tuesday.

41 posted on 08/28/2002 11:57:44 AM PDT by mware
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
...LEAHY =

...The Enemy is now Within...

...and always has been.
42 posted on 08/28/2002 12:03:37 PM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE
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To: deport
The request suggests that the FBI is now focusing on the handful of senior senators who are members of a Senate-House panel investigating Sept. 11 and attend most classified meetings and read all the most sensitive intelligence agency communications. A similar request did not go to House intelligence committee members.

The fact that the FBI has not requested the information from the House members is telling. I believe that it was Bill Krystol who said the other day that he believes that the FBI knows just which senator leaked the NSA information but are "casting a broad net" as a ploy.

If so, what are the odds? Republican or DemocRAT?

43 posted on 08/28/2002 12:24:19 PM PDT by jackbill
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To: mware
Newmax got it right. Here is a part of todays NYT article regarding the leak.

Newsmax got it right - except for the last two sentences. Those two sentences are related to an entirely different leak, apparently from the Joint House/Senate Intelligence committee. That leak had to do with a couple of messages that the NSA had intercepted just before 9/11 but didn't translate until 9/12. Those messages indicated that something big was going to happen soon.

44 posted on 08/28/2002 12:30:03 PM PDT by jackbill
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To: deport
The request suggests that the FBI is now focusing on the handful of senior senators who are members of a Senate-House panel investigating Sept. 11 and attend most classified meetings and read all the most sensitive intelligence agency communications.

Looks like the Washington Compost even got it a bit wrong. The 17 senators being investigated aren't necessarily "senior senators" - either in age or seniority. They just happen to be ALL of the 17 senators on the senate Committee on Intelligence. Senators Edwards and Thompson are among them and they are both in their first term.

45 posted on 08/28/2002 12:33:51 PM PDT by jackbill
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To: jackbill
You're not confused.

This article wasn't meant to convey any facts. It is a yellow journalistic attempt to smear the opposition with innuendo and past acts of bad faith in order to put them on the defensive (not that there's anything wrong with that).

-PJ

46 posted on 08/28/2002 12:35:49 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
It is known by everyone that Leahy is a sickening, baby-faced scumbag.
And Leahy keeps getting reelected by Vermont voters.
Ergo, a majority of Vermont voters are themselves scumbags.

I don't think of Vermont as being loaded with major parasite centers (cities), and yet the people there elect and reelect jack-in-the-box clowns like Bernie Sanders, and sickening scumbags like Leahy. Is the place loaded with parasites? Or just loaded with scumbags?

47 posted on 08/28/2002 12:39:00 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Well, I'm just shocked, shocked I tell you. Gee, what a surprise...
48 posted on 08/28/2002 12:43:44 PM PDT by Utah Girl
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To: Political Junkie Too
It is a yellow journalistic attempt to smear the opposition with innuendo and past acts of bad faith in order to put them on the defensive

First, I didn't see much "innuendo", only a recap of scumbag Leahy's leaks of classified information, his resignation in disgrace from the Senate Intelligence Committee, and his continuing threat to national security. I believe that these are important things for people to keep in mind.

So I think I'll bump this thread every few hours or so. Won't you join me?

49 posted on 08/28/2002 12:47:18 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard
Perhaps. The innuendo is that Leahy is responsible again.

I agree that this must be kept in front of people or they will forget.

-PJ

50 posted on 08/28/2002 12:51:34 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too
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To: Political Junkie Too
The innuendo is that Leahy is responsible again.

Yep, I guess you're right about that, although the headline merely says that he is "suspected". Sure, he is "suspected" along with 16 others, but he is the one with the history and if I was a detective, he would be my prime suspect.

Nice hit peice by NewsMax though. I wish there were a lot more news sources willing to fight the scumbags the way the scumbags have always fought us.
Bravo once again to NewsMax for having some guts. May it spread to the Republican Party.

51 posted on 08/28/2002 1:04:38 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard
This leads me to a topic that I thought would make a nice column for somebody: Taking The "High Road."

We keep hearing about how the Republicans, or Bush, try to take the "high road" in politics. Bush tries to "change the tone in Washington." Republicans are held to a higher standard because they run on "high ground" morals and family values. This would imply, by contrast, that the Democrats take the "low road." In fact, Democrats (or Democrat supporters) use this as the reason why scandals hurt Republicans more.

My confusion is this: If Republicans are taking the "high road," then why do Democrats insist on making wild scandal accusations (and why do people simultaneously accept the accusations and the proposition that Republicans take the "high road) and yet when they (Democrats) are caught in real scandals they say "let's not point fingers, let's not play the blame game, we have to look forward not backwards, blah blah blah."

If you lay down with dogs, then you wake up with fleas. Democrats consistently take the low road compared to Republicans and yet they consistently try to smear Republicans with fabricated scandals. Why would the population believe that a group that endeavors to take the high road (if you believe Democrats) would somehow wind up with more, or more severe, scandals than the group that consistently takes the low road? Why would people accept the notion that a group that consistently takes the low road should have their repeated scandals ignored?

Of course, these are all rhetorical questions -- we all know the answers.

-PJ

52 posted on 08/28/2002 1:22:50 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I suspected Leahy but think there are others.
53 posted on 08/28/2002 1:34:47 PM PDT by INSENSITIVE GUY
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Wasn't there some speculation that Feinstein was responsible for the very first leak that purturbed Bush when he took over? I remember some speculation that after the first leak occured, Feinstein wasn't invited back to the White House for additional briefings. I can't remember the exact story, but this sticks out in my mind.

-PJ

54 posted on 08/28/2002 1:52:37 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too
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To: Political Junkie Too
"These threats were relayed on a bipartisan basis to the House Intelligence Committee in real time," said House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, Illinois Republican. "In fact, Senator Dianne Feinstein said on July 1, 2001, on the Wolf Blitzer show that she had been told that a major attack on the United States could be expected in the next three months."

Mrs. Feinstein, California Democrat and Senate committee member, said yesterday she did not know anything specific, but that her remarks stemmed from a "deep sense of foreboding" that an attack was imminent. She said neither she nor the White House could have foreseen September 11, something on which several other intelligence committee members from both chambers and parties agreed.

Source

55 posted on 08/28/2002 2:05:52 PM PDT by ravingnutter
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To: Wild Irish Rogue
You might be interested in the following story:

FBI Raids Hillary's Warehouse in Whitewater Deja Vu -06/24/02

Peter Paul wants roll over on Hillary for immunity.

56 posted on 08/28/2002 2:12:15 PM PDT by ravingnutter
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To: Political Junkie Too; Utah Girl; INSENSITIVE GUY
Remember how Newt was too successful and the only option was to spin him off in media lies? Rush always maintained that the Leftists are most interesting when out of power, well here we are. No legislature being discussed (realize resolving problems eliminates issues), war issues must suddenly be approved by Congress, and the leaking game hasn't yet ended. America faces some very serious issues yet as always the Leftists are more than willing to place their needs in front of the nation's. A damn shame Newt is on television instead of a committee...
57 posted on 08/28/2002 2:24:45 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: INSENSITIVE GUY
"I suspected Leahy but think there are others."

Yep...and not necessarily only those on the comittee in question : there's Dashless, McStain, Dickie G and Hillary, et al.

58 posted on 08/28/2002 2:48:53 PM PDT by cake_crumb
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To: cake_crumb
This ought to be a MAJOR issue for the election cycle - put out commercials that show Senator Leahy being kicked off the intelligence committee 10 years ago for leaking information, then show Gary Condit being kicked out when he had been on the intelligence committee and then finish with this question - America IS at WAR - ONLY YOU, THE VOTING PUBLIC CAN HELP US BY GIVING PRESIDENT BUSH THE CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS WHO WILL KEEP THEIR MOUTHS SHUT and SUPPORT THE WAR EFFORT!
59 posted on 08/28/2002 3:21:15 PM PDT by princess leah
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I would bet good money that Leahy is a closet nudist!!
60 posted on 08/28/2002 3:31:57 PM PDT by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
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