Posted on 01/09/2006 12:10:55 PM PST by 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…"
Great... now a sitting U.S. Senator will be tried and convicted of leaking classified material, right? RIGHT??
*crickets*
Beat him with a wet firehose and make him confess.
I believe he got his security clearance knocked down a month or so ago over this propensity.
Threaten to lock him in the trunk of a car and then hand a fifth of scotch and the keys to Teddy K.
Democrats' Culture of Corruption.
When they pull his clearance, then I will believe that he really is a target. That means he has to resign from the Intelligence Committee and move on.
You're TOO cruel!.....LOL..
Now that's cruel and unusual punishment that'll make even Ol' Sparky blush.
Adds a new dimension to "waterboarding".
Now that would be sweet.
That's true, that's a long time for Teddy K. to go with just a fifth of booze.
I guarantee this will go nowhere. Remember....The Clinton FBI files. This guy is too powerful and will take down virtually everyone!
Move on.
There's just something so wrong about using "Rockefeller" and "Intelligence" in the same sentence. It's an oxymoron of the worst kind.
So this is a leak about the leaker?
bump
Don't forget to use Smelliry's crusty pantaloons as Jay's blindfold.
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