Posted on 04/25/2006 12:58:03 PM PDT by NutCrackerBoy
It's all so INTERTWINED.
MARY MCTRAITOR CASE .. ON BRITT HUME NOW!!
I'm watching too. :)
She's now denying she confessed....
Good one --
"CATEGORY C: REPORTER AS SUSPECT
Finally, in Category C, journalists are owed no deference at all. Here, they do not stand as incidental witnesses, or even merely critical witnesses. Here, they stand as potential defendants. As such, they should be treated like any other criminal suspects. Which is to say, they can be prosecuted for any crimes they have committed.
More to the point, it is perfectly appropriate in Category C for the government to use the specter of prosecution as leverage to obtain cooperation from a journalist for the higher public purpose of bringing to justice the more culpable targets of the investigation. Where intelligence community leaking is concerned, those more culpable targets are the government officials who, in violation of their solemn oaths, are leaking the government's secrets --- alarmingly, in wartime.
Those more culpable targets inflict massive damage on our country, but they may be totally insulated from prosecution unless the reporter cooperates. Here, in other words, the reporter has acted irresponsibly, perhaps criminally, and is exacerbating matters by shielding more serious criminal actors.
Category C is not a close call: the reporter should be pressed for information --- whether by appeal to his or her patriotism, by subpoena, by the threat of prosecution, or by indictment. The Justice Department owes no apologies for such tactics, notwithstanding the inevitable editorial caterwauling.
It is the Department's duty to protect the American people by pursuing the leakers who imperil them. And in Category C, there is no good reason to delay until all other avenues can be exhausted.
The black-sites leak belongs in Category C. Some may claim it belongs in Category B because it is not as clear that publication was a crime in the black-sites scenario as it is, by contrast, in the NSA situation. That, so the argument goes, is because the federal law that specifically proscribes the "publish[ing]" of classified information, Section 798 of Title 18, U.S. Code, is carefully limited to classified information about signals intelligence. The NSA terrorist surveillance program is a wartime signals intelligence effort. The black-site prisons situation is not.
That rationale, however, reads the law incompletely. Another provision of the espionage laws, Section 793(e), expressly targets persons who: (a) have "unauthorized possession" of national defense information, (b) have reason to believe such information could be used to the injury of the United States or the benefit of any foreign nation, and (c) willfully communicate that information to others not entitled to have it.
This crime would clearly apply to a situation in which a reporter was improperly given classified information critical to the war effort and published it despite the obvious potential damage to American interests and benefit to nations opposed to our interests and policies. Which is to say: It is tailor-made for the black-sites leak.
The Washington Post published Dana Priest's story on the black-site prisons back on November 2, 2005. It has thus been about six months since this egregious compromise of national secrets involving the acquisition of intelligence desperately needed to protect American lives --- information from top al Qaeda detainees about the terror organization's ongoing plots. Still, the Post reported this weekend that no one at the newspaper has yet been interviewed about the leaks.
Templates aside, if Americans are wondering what in the world is going on here --- and, more to the point, whether any attempt has been made to question Ms. Priest about her intelligence community source(s), and if not, why not --- that's a very good question."
I hope her confession is on videotape....surely, it must be...
Didn't you just LOVE the CIA spokeswoman's counter to that!!! ?????
It MUST be ... spooks NOT being spooks???? LOL
Yes......Please let this confession be taped...I figured she'd deny this for trial purposes and plead not guilty...
Leakers or leaks will be found and punched...lol.
I wonder if ANY other "news" organization besides FNC is even covering this. If you look at their web pages, they are nearly silent on Ms. McCarthy. I guess the dems are still trying to figure out the best talking points to send to the alphabets before they start addressing this issue. And, when oh when, will we get some more firings from the CIA. I hope Dana gets investigated also; she deserves jail for assisting the terrorists in a time of war. She is nothing but an anti-war leftist, traitor.
DANG- I missed what Brit said- I'm still working...tell me how he handled it?
Their silence is deafening.
GOOD segment. Jim Angle reported. Mary has lawyered-up, but she was unearthed via a polygraph aimed at specific topics --- apparently, she was directly questioned about leaking to Dana Priest... ta-dah, she failed the poly.
Thanks:) Unless we're missing something- which is always possible- she's now lying...about lying..about leaking.
That's exactly what she's doing.
We will soon be reminded that poly's are unreliable...lol.
OK, Mary, let's go for a retake and this time MORE detailed. LOL!
Indeed.. poly's may be unreliable...HOWEVER....confessions straight from the horse's mouth are certainly worthy of paying attention to:)
Unbelievable- she's had her moment of getting caught and fessing up- now she's going to have her lawyer try some fancy footwork.
The cocktail and dinner hour at that house must be a tad tense, eh?
It seems someone is definitely stupid!
Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns is the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, the Department of State’s third ranking official. Appointed by President Bush, he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 17, 2005 and was sworn into office by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. As Under Secretary, he oversees U.S. policy in each region of the world and serves in the senior career Foreign Service position at the Department.
Prior to his current assignment, Ambassador Burns was the United States Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. As Ambassador to NATO, he headed the combined State-Defense Department U.S. Mission to NATO at a time when the Alliance committed to new missions in Iraq, Afghanistan and the global war against terrorism, and accepted seven new members.
From 1997 to 2001, Ambassador Burns was U.S. Ambassador to Greece. During his tenure as Ambassador, the U.S. expanded its military and law enforcement cooperation with Greece, strengthened our partnership in the Balkans, increased trade and investment and people-to-people programs.
From 1995 to 1997, Ambassador Burns was Spokesman of the Department of State and Acting Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs for Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Secretary Madeleine Albright. In this position, he gave daily press conferences on U.S. foreign policy issues, accompanied both Secretaries of State on all their foreign trips and coordinated all of the Department’s public outreach programs.
Mr. Burns, a career Senior Foreign Service Officer, served for five years (1990-1995) on the National Security Council staff at the White House. He was Special Assistant to President Clinton and Senior Director for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia Affairs. He had lead responsibility in the White House for advising the President on all aspects of U.S. relations with the fifteen countries of the former Soviet Union.
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Richard Holbrooke began a sentence by saying, "When John Kerry is president and I'm secretary of state and Nicholas Burns here is undersecretary of state for political affairs ..." Mr. Kerry went on to lose the election, and Mr. Holbrooke, who was America's ambassador to the United Nations under President Clinton and Mr. Kerry's foreign policy adviser, is but a private citizen, albeit a distinguished one. Mr. Burns, however, emerged from his position as America's ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to become just what that story had Mr. Holbrooke predicting, undersecretary of state for political affairs, with the surprise ending being that it's in a Bush administration.
http://www.nysun.com/article/23314
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