Posted on 03/04/2006 9:27:25 PM PST by FairOpinion
The Bush administration, seeking to limit leaks of classified information, has launched initiatives targeting journalists and their possible government sources. The efforts include several FBI probes, a polygraph investigation inside the CIA and a warning from the Justice Department that reporters could be prosecuted under espionage laws.
In recent weeks, dozens of employees at the CIA, the National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies have been interviewed by agents from the FBI's Washington field office, who are investigating possible leaks that led to reports about secret CIA prisons and the NSA's warrantless domestic surveillance program, according to law enforcement and intelligence officials familiar with the two cases.
The Justice Department also argued in a court filing last month that reporters can be prosecuted under the 1917 Espionage Act for receiving and publishing classified information. The brief was filed in support of a case against two pro-Israeli lobbyists, who are the first nongovernment officials to be prosecuted for receiving and distributing classified information.
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I hope they won't back off from this.
Full speed ahead I just hope they het tried for Treason !
This is one of the reasons the heat has been on the WH. The rats are trying to make them back down. I hope the WH presses on and slams these guys good.
II hope so also.
I get this feeling that Alberto Gonzales is a good attack dog and a close friend of Bush....I think Alberto is fed up with the liberal mantra and will do what is needed to get the MSN to realize the struggle we are up against. No prisoners this time.
You are right. Bush is letting loose the dogs of war.
I agree, about time. But the loonies will start screeching freedom of speech...yet again.
Average citizen will hear on MSM that Bush is trying to take away our rights......
Morons.
"Bush is letting loose the dogs of war."
And it's high time.
These leaks, such as about the NSA wiretapping of terrorists, DO indeed jeopardize national security. Definitely past time to stop that, with whatever drastic measures are necessary.
Interesting ....
Great news and I hope it happens. They won't have to prosecute and jail too many "journalists" before they'll get the message, jail is not fun.
Bush has been too timid with his adversaries in the past. I hope he goes for the jugular now.
Freedom of speech doesn't apply to revealing highly classified information that endangers national security.
There are already laws on the books against that, with long, long jail terms, they just haven't been enforcing it, when it applied to journalists and members of Congress.
"There's a tone of gleeful relish in the way they talk about dragging reporters before grand juries, their appetite for withholding information, and the hints that reporters who look too hard into the public's business risk being branded traitors," said New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller, in a statement responding to questions from The Washington Post. "I don't know how far action will follow rhetoric, but some days it sounds like the administration is declaring war at home on the values it professes to be promoting abroad."
Can you believe the unmitigated GALL of that guy?
your link is rather ... dead.
(WaPo down right now while posting)
Sounds too good to be true. I hope I'm wrong.
It seems like the Washington Post website is down.
I tried to just go to their main page, and that didn't work either.
All they have to do is squeeze one or two real hard and those liberals will give up their mothers to save their asses. They are gutless cowards. The "Enlightened one's" my a@@@
Freepmail.
The Washington Post doesn't mention - for obvious reasons - the recent leak by their own reporter Dana Priest regarding the CIA detention and transport of suspected enemies in foreign countries. Like the NY Times' NSA story, the was a criminal leak which damaged our security.
And now I'm going to check if the Justice Department memo re prosecution of reporters is posted anywhere online...
Same article also at MSNBC, and that link works -- the site is up, at least right now.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11676209/
Or you can read it at a China site:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-03/05/content_4259931.htm
Thank you.
You got that right. And there will be a couple just to push them to the limits. Can't wait for it to happen and if it's on Court TV, I'll watch it with pleasure.
No problem. I saw it earlier.
Take a look at this one.....the Bush crime syndicate is going after patriotic "Whistle blowers" LOL
Related article:
Bush administration tries to plug leaks
http://www.washtimes.com/upi/20060304-095222-4133r.htm
The White House has begun an all-out offensive against leaks like those that led to the revelation of warrantless wiretapping, the Washington Post reported.
FBI agents have been interviewing employees of intelligence agencies, including the CIA and National Security Agency. They are investigating the sources of New York Times stories on NSA wiretapping and secret detention centers in Europe.
In California, the FBI office in Los Angeles is probing a Sacramento Bee story that used sealed court documents in a terrorism case.
I really hope so. The MSM harbors many traitors to our nation, as does the governmental beaurocracy. People become loyal to their jobs and nothing else.
Yep! "I wasn't revealing secrets, I am a whistle-blower attempting to reign in the illegal spying of the Bush administration".
This will be a donnybrook....with the MSM and Democrats at high screech; it will be a tough battle. We need to send Bush and Co. messages of support on this!
This is a fight for the right to protect our way of life!
The Washington Post website is now offline.
Same article also at MSNBC, and that link works -- the site is up, at least right now.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11676209/
Been waiting for this!!! Yeah!!!!
I have a hard time believing they will do anything about it, even if they do find out who it is. They have had numerous chances to go after RATS who were caught red handed with they paws in the cookie jar and they let them go! I have no reason to believe they will do anything about this either. It's just more hot air. IMO!
I want to see some traitor perp-walks!
If I were the Bush Administration and had the press repeating the mantra of poor poll numbers even though the poll was subject to a major sampling error, I would pull out the stops and grind the MSM to a pulp. It American press is feeding the public poop and the American public is being poisoned, it is time for a reality check. The American public needs an object lesson so they learn not to eat everything the press spoons out to them.
Good gravy, this the only way we can stop these traitors. Socialists will turn tail and run - and turn on each other - quicker than you can say Jack Sprat, if they think they will be held accountable for their own actions.
And there's another step that must be taken in Washington: bringing frivolous and unfounded charges against people to destroy their career - this needs to be stopped. This is straight out of the communist/John Birch Society handbooks. If someone brings scurrilous charges without clear proof - they should be subject to investigation themselves.
When it comes to national security, punish leakers and reporters. In the Philippines Arroyo wants to go after people in the media who report on her opponents demonstrations and her corruption, clearing violating freedom of the press and speech. But here the MSM is aiding and abetting the terrorists who want to destroy America by revealing our security operations. If its a war then this kind of leaking and reporting has to stop.
He's lashing out in death spasms.
Washington Post Profits Fall
For months the MSM has been assualting Dubya non-stop. This has resulted in continued lose of consumers as people flee to the new media for information.
At some point the WP will be unable to reveal national secrets because no one will read them.
the MSM already realizes the struggle we are up against - and they are willing partners in aiding and abetting the enemy.
The only way they will back off is if they are finally held accountable - individual by individual. Socialists not only back down if they know their feet will be held to the fire, they will turn on each other to save their own yellow hides...
"But here the MSM is aiding and abetting the terrorists who want to destroy America by revealing our security operations"
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Exactly. They are causing irreversible damage.
Yeah, that one is working.
Thanks.
WP site seems to be down.
Same article also at MSNBC, and that link works -- the site is up, at least right now.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11676209/
I agree. Gregory should have been kicked to hell and back.
What a loser.
How would Keller feel if the attack the "spying" on terrorist phone calls to the United States stopped was one on the New York Times building? Does the NYT give a rip about those killed on 9/11 and trying to see to it that doesn't happen to more people? Keller has the wrong priorities. His first should be to defend America and other nations from being overrun by terrorists and friends(Islamofascists) who don't care about freedoms he claims to be defending? Hating Republicans and Bush is more important then stopping the terrorists, I guess.
This is the stupid thinking that sunk France to the Nazis in 1940. Everybody followed their party line instead of fighting Nazis. The Islamofascists are the enemy. Get it.
You got it! Write letters folks! Call, email whatever. Just do it.
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