Washington Post Leaks More National Security Secrets

Sweetness & Light ^ | January 30, 2006 | N/A

[Sam Hill]

Tired of seeing the New York Times getting all the headlines with their treason, the Washington Post has decided to join in the fun of betraying its country's most vital national secrets.

This self-styled military expert, William Arkin, must surely be aware it is a gross and illegal violation of national security to release code names. (Ask Kissinger about "Umbra.") Of course that didn't stop him from writing a book that does just that a year ago, either.

In fact, Mr. Arkin considers himself more of an activist than a journalist. (Not that there is any discernible difference in our one party media.)

Arkin is a former Greenpeace "researcher." He is involved with Harry Belafonte's Institute for Policy Studies and those Solons at Human Rights Watch.

Worthies like Mr. Arkin cannot be bound by the laws of mere mortals. [The Washington Post article is heavily excerpted.]

NSA Expands, Centralizes Domestic Spying

By William M. Arkin | January 30, 2006

Code Name(s) of the Week: DIAZ, Emergejust, Freedom, Highpoint, PASSGEAR, Viceroy

The National Security Agency is in the process of building a new warning hub and data warehouse in the Denver area, realigning much of its workforce from Ft. Meade, Maryland to Colorado...

On the surface, the NSA move seems to be a management and cost cutting measure, part of a post-9/11 decentralization. "This strategy better aligns support to national decision makers and combatant commanders," an NSA spokesman told the Denver paper.

In truth, NSA is aligning its growing domestic eavesdropping operations -- what the administration calls "terrorist warning" in its current PR campaign -- with military homeland defense organizations, as well as the CIA's new domestic operations Colorado.

Translation: Hey Congress, Colorado is now the American epicenter for national domestic spying...

According to Government Executive Magazine -- thanks DP -- "NSA is building a massive data storage facility in Colorado, which will be able to hold the electronic equivalent of the Library of Congress every two days." This new NSA data warehouse is the hub of "data mining" and analysis development, allowing the eavesdropping agency to develop and make better use of the unbelievabytes of data it collects but does not exploit...

Contracting documents from 2004 and 2005 obtained by this reporter identify numerous Top Secret and compartmented computing and signals intelligence projects being run by prime contractors Lockheed Martin; Northrop Grumman Mission Systems; and Raytheon on behalf of NSA in Colorado to building the domestic warning hub and data warehouse. The projects have the code names DIAZ, Emergejust, Freedom, Highpoint, PASSGEAR, and Viceroy...

Note: A free copy of my book Code Names to any reader who can tell me -- in English -- what any of these programs actually do.

It is illegal to leak code names, which are highly classified, as this jackanapes has done. It is also illegal to solicit information about such secret programs with offers of a reward.

Behold US Code Title 18, Part I, Chapter 3, § 793:

Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information:

(e) Whoever having unauthorized possession of, access to, or control over any... information relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation, willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted, or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it...

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

Mind you, this is the very law which to the Washington Post's delight is being absurdly applied against "Scooter" Libby.

Moreover, the "analysis" Arkin presented is simply laughably uninformed. It's clearly intended to try to whip up more outrage about NSA's "domestic spying."

Which is his only real purpose for this non-story. That and delivering some more vital information to our country's enemies.

But never mind all that. Our watchdog media is doing its mission. Safeguarding our freedoms by destroying our national defense.

One story at a time.

[p23185]

"The media is the enemy" ping.

Fifth Column

[kcvl]

Who Is William Arkin?

A look at the Greenpeace activist cum L.A. Times military affairs columnist who's taking after Gen. Jerry Boykin.

by Hugh Hewitt
10/23/2003 12:00:00 AM


WHO IS WILLIAM ARKIN?

For starters, he is the scribbler who launched the assault on Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin a week ago by providing NBC with tapes of Boykin speaking in churches, and then followed with a Los Angeles Times op-ed that accused the general of being "an intolerant extremist" and a man "who believes in Christian 'jihad'" (Arkin later admitted on my radio program that Boykin never used the term "jihad").

Arkin also wrote that "Boykin has made it clear that he takes his orders not from his Army superiors but from God--which is a worrisome line of command." This statement, like the "jihad" quotation appears to be pure fiction.


More...


http://tinyurl.com/chyn6

[piasa]

thanks

[piasa]

Arkin ping:

For starters, he is the scribbler who launched the assault on Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin a week ago by providing NBC with tapes of Boykin speaking in churches, and then followed with a Los Angeles Times op-ed that accused the general of being "an intolerant extremist" and a man "who believes in Christian 'jihad'" (Arkin later admitted on my radio program that Boykin never used the term "jihad").

Arkin also wrote that "Boykin has made it clear that he takes his orders not from his Army superiors but from God--which is a worrisome line of command." This statement, like the "jihad" quotation appears to be pure fiction.

[Cindy]

OPINION: Arkin sounds like he needs one of your free attitude adjustments.

Thanks for the info piasa.

[MadJack]

Have you sent a copy of this to your local federal prosecutor?

[Toadman]

WHy isn't this guy having a conversation in a little windowless room with a couple of suits right now, is what I want to know.

While I'd like to see that too, I can understand why no one would pay him a visit for the following reason/s:

Although he's soliciting for classified information; if he was questioned, he would be receiving the attention he's seeking and draw more readers to his book. Additionally, while he has spouted words that he claims are code names, who knows what they are? IMHO think he's fishing.

I'm willing to be the FBI has a "post it" on this opportunist.

[Toadman]

I'm willing to BET the FBI has a post it on this opportunist. (Sheesh! I'm lucky I can spell my name right this morning! Need more coffee)

[IamConservative]

Can we hang this one?

I suspect the NSA would be more interested in hanging the people doing the leaking. This untalented asshat is just a parrot.

[ovrtaxt]

Why do these liberal Jews love Islam so much? I don't get it.

[shezza]

IMHO, if Martha Stewart can do jail time solely for lying to authorities in an insider-trading scheme when there was found to be no crime committed, then self-aggrandizing traitors like this who brag about exposing top-secret information and gleefully undermine national security should certainly face no less punishment.

[jackv]

This little twirp used to be on hardball alot. Typical know-it-all on board the Bush hate bandwagon, who has all the answers.
It is becoming so obvious that these people are more interested in promoting themselves than they are in serving this country.

[jackv]

This little twirp used to be on hardball alot. Typical know-it-all on board the Bush hate bandwagon, who has all the answers.
It is becoming so obvious that these people are more interested in promoting themselves than they are in serving this country.

[rabidralph]

I think the codenames for the projects are the names used by the contractors and gov. representatives when discussing the project. Sort of like the codename of a project is SeaWiFS, which is much easier to say than "Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor." But the fact remains that this idiot is actively looking to release classified information and no one needs to know that anything is being built in Colorado Springs.

[Toadman]

I with you 100%. No arguement from me. We're on the same track. Thinking alike.

I was merely speculating as to why the FBI has not been knocking on his door.

Right now he'd probably get probation, whereas if someone actually bit on his offer and he received classified information, then there's a better chance he'd spend some time in the slammer. More than Martha hopefully.

Additionally we'd smoke out traitors who leak classified information.

[shezza]

The investigators are more patient than I. ;o)

[Inwoodian]

This guy goes way beyond liberal. He allies with Harry Belafonte and the Institute for Policy Studies. That puts him in the Commie corner- not that this matters to the Wa/Po or the Democrats.

[talleyman]

This untalented asshat is just a parrot.

Hang the parrot too.

[Deb]

Cindy was hilarious yesterday on the "Impeachment Panel". Did you catch it?

[Sam Hill]

No, sorry to say.

I'm sure she was a hoot.

I never tire of her Valley Girl voiced nonsense.