Sen. Jay Rockefeller a Target?

American Thinker ^ | 01-09-06 | Clarice Feldman

[smoothsailing]

Sen. Jay Rockefeller a Target?

January 9,2006

By Clarice Feldman

Macsmind is reporting that Sen. Rockefeller may be the target of investigators examining the leak of classified information on the NSA surveillance program:

"I'm trying to confirm this information, but several sources are telling me today that some investigators working on the NSA leak probe believe that Senator Jay Rockefeller may have been a little more than "concerned" about NSA. In fact, he may just be the leaker of the program to the NY Times, and is now being considered a "significant person of interest" in the probe.

What I'm told that investigatiors have locked into is this fact that other pundits have identified, that Senator Rockefeller had stated that he went to to great lengths to lock away his memo of concern (in a safe) so that not even other close members of the Senate knew about it. Yet the NY Times, James Risen in fact revealed the letter's existance in his initial NSA "book excerpt".

The question being asked is if not even Senator Rockefeller's closest confidants, staffers, etc, knew of the letter's existance, how therefore did James Risen of the NY Times know about it?

If this incoming information is correct, it would not be the first time Senator Rockefeller – Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee had been investigated for leaking classified information. In early 2005, the CIA asked the Justice Department to look into whether Democratic Senators Dick Durbin, Jay Rockefeller and Ron Wyden leaked details about a secret "black ops" CIA satellite program in December of 2004. That investigation is still on going, but I hear it may be wrapping up in the affirmative.

Moreover, it may be noted that Senator Rockefeller admitted back in November 2005, that he also made a trip to Syria in 2002 to discuss "The President's intentions" reference to the upcoming invasion of Iraq. A move which I understand didn't sit well with administration officials.

Of course Senator Rockefeller is the architect of the current Demorcatic game plan on Iraq as the infamous "Rockefeller Memo" showed.

If this information is acurate, it will also confirm the suspicions voiced here, and here after the NSA story broke that in fact Senator Rockefeller, along with recently 'resigned" FISA Judge James Robertson – an outspoken critic of the President and the NSA program.

Stay tuned…" 

[Prost1]

I have always wondered how much info he feeds uncle David so the empire grows...

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Keelhaul de mofo on the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan!

[geezerwheezer]

If this is true, then I hope the Justice Dept. gets him indicted, tried, and if found guilty, shot! I think the leaks coming out of Washington would then stop real quick.

[Yo-Yo]

[shield]

Since W took a shot over the bow at his televised radio chat...Rockefella has gone silent...LOL...

[Berlin_Freeper]

Rockefeller is going down like a Rocke-feller-offa-cliff.

[DarthVader]

Put him a locked bedroom with Helen Thomas. The ultimate torture.

[smoothsailing]

Yep, I think it was on FOXNews Sunday, just before Thanksgiving.

(BTW, you do know this is 2006, right? :) )

[smoothsailing]

ROFLOL!

[Joe Miner]

So the investigators investingating a leaker are leaking? Somehow I get the feeling the problem is systemic to DC.

[OldFriend]

Senator Rockefeller and Senator Byrd have been conspicuously absent from any offers of condolence to the Sago mining families.

Wondering if Wilbur Ross is a contributor to those two senators.

[dirtboy]

Put him a locked bedroom with Helen Thomas. The ultimate torture.

Now, now, we want to make him talk, not turn him into a vegetable...

[DCPatriot]

Arrest the son-of-a-b*tch!

[Fester Chugabrew]

What you mean? Teddy would have a GREAT time.

[cubreporter]

If the shoe fits.....

If he is not guilty I say let them investigate. However, if he has something to worry about then he has something to worry about. Like I said: "If the shoe fits...."

[PISANO]

If ANY Democrat gets nailed for leaking Top Secret Information I hope I wake up because I KNOW I WILL BE DREAMING!!

[K-oneTexas]

Nothing new.

Senator Pat Leahy was annoyed with the Reagan administration's war on terrorism in the 1980s. At the time he was vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. He's got the name "Leaky Leahy,".

Allegedly he threatened to sabotage various classified strategies that he didn't like and he inadvertently' disclosed a top-secret communications intercept during a 1985 television interview. He said that "The intercept ... made possible the capture of the Arab terrorists who had hijacked the cruise ship Achille Lauro and murdered American citizens." The reports cost the life of at least one Egyptian operative involved in the operation and gave information to Egypt that we had penetrated the high levels of Egyptian government.

In July 1987, it was reported that Leahy leaked secret information about a 1986 covert operation planned by the Reagan administration to topple Libya's Gaddhafi. U.S. intelligence officials said he, along with the Republican panel chairman, sent a written threat to expose the operation directly to then-CIA Director William Casey. Weeks later, news of the secret plan turned up in the Washington Post, causing it to be aborted.

A year later, as the Senate was preparing to hold hearings on the Iran-Contra scandal, Leahy had to resign his Intelligence Committee post after he was caught leaking secret information to a reporter.

Leahy should have been indicted, tried and sentenced. (Firing squad at dawn on the Mall.) What did he get ... a raise. Who really believes that 'a Rockefeller' would face any higher authority, like a court. Many elected ongessmen and Senators have done this from both parties.

The law is not in place to make a Member of Congress subject to the laws of the land. Others can be, the military for sure as well as members of the Executive Branch can be held accountable. They can go to jail or pay a fine (like Sandy Burger losing his clearance for 5 years).

[American Quilter]

Wasn't Rockefeller the author of a memo to the DNC a year or so ago on how to bring down conservative judicial nominees? My memory of it is fuzzy...

[MineralMan]

This is a little disturbing. The information is uncomfirmed from a blog, and a blogspot blog, at that.

Is it true? Maybe. Is anyone sure it's true? Nope.

I don't think this is quite News yet. Second hand reports from unconfirmed blog postings do not make news. I think we should avoid jumping on this until it's verified.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The headline should've said,

"Sen. Jay Rockefeller Suspected of Treason."