Posted on 10/22/2006 3:55:41 AM PDT by Sergeant Tim
Alberto Gonzalez is a pathetic excuse for an Attorney General, and once again Bush demonstrates that personal friendship means more than political results. Gonzalez has had more than three years to investigate leaks damaging to the the US and has come up with nothing. Zip. Nada. It matters not what they come up with in the future because their lack of initiative has been as damaging as the leaks themselves.
Good idea...I'm leaving here now to check out "contact" on Mary Bono's site. I'll be sure and spell 'demand resignation from committee' correctly.
I have to agree. So many missed opportunities by the absentee president & staff.
If we had a non-partisan media, this would be all over the news.
Don't you wonder why a fellow who has a Master's Degree and who has worked as a consultant would walk away from that and take a job as a House staffer making under 30K per year? His wife is a Magistrate, but that doesn't pay big bucks. His agenda seems to be to change policy. He's another one of these Democrats who think they are the smartest person in the room.
You are misreading the numbers. Hanauer made that amount in one quarter.
LOL. Me or the libs?
Oops. Nevermind. :)
The libs who leak our secrets to the enemy should hang.
Pinch, Hanauer, Harmon...
not you.
8-)
The Slimes and other MSM outlets have probably lost one of their main sources and won't cover the story but will be out in full force to slander and libel every Republican they can if they weren't already.
Not all classified information is the same. The NIE isn't just classified, like say the number of spare jeep carburetors available to Battalion X deep in the Hurtgen Forest. It is one of the most highly classified document our intelligence agencies produce and its distribution is restricted to a small number of senior folks with a clear need to know. It is highly classified because of the fact that it represents the official intelligence communities assessment of intentions and capabilities of our enemies. Knowing where it is right and where it is wrong is of enormous value to the enemy.
Leaking it isn't like leaking a fact that everyone knows, such as the wife of x, who daily drives through the gates of the CIA, is, surprise, surprise, an employee of the CIA. This is a clear resounding unauthorized disclosure of highly sensitive information with the clear intent to damage national security.
I'd say there's a lot of digging to be done here. Hope someone's doing it.
Don't look for a MSM bombshell anytime soon.
Thanks for the ping!
I think Bret Baer said he is going to interview Congressman Hoekstra on Fox. It would have to be between now and 2:00pm (Eastern).
Hoekstra's main points:
Hanauer's access to classified data has been suspended pending investigation.
Leaking classified information will not be tolerated. Confirming/commenting to media about leaked classified information obtained from another source will not be tolerated.
That said, Congress' intelligence committees have oversight responsibility yet even committee members do not have automatic clearance; they, and to a lesser extent designated staff, must have the clearance, be on the access list for the information, and have a need to know. Because the records holder honored his request for the NIE, Larry Hanauer must have met all three tests. It is not that he requested the NIE that caused the suspicion; it is when he recieved the NIE (2 days before the NY and LA Times published their story).
Stay with me; there is a point to this.
The original NY Times report was published late evening on 10/23/06 yet by late evening on 10/24/06 the NY Times had already added several reports and an editorial. One 10/24 report was entitled Citing Spy Agencies’ Study, Democrats Seek Iraq Changes and they wrote this:
Representative Jane Harman of California, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said that while she could not discuss details of the classified National Intelligence Estimate, “Every intelligence analyst I speak to confirms that” the Iraq war had contributed to the increased terrorist threat. “Even capturing the remaining top Al Qaeda leadership isn’t going to prevent copycat cells, and it isn’t going to change a failed policy in Iraq,” Ms. Harman said on CNN’s “Late Edition.” “This administration is trying to change the subject. I don’t think voters are going to buy that.”
That makes the timing of Hanauer receiving the NIE interesting, even if he did not leak it to the NY Times. Several other Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi, said on 10/24 they were only commenting based upon the news reports as they had not read the NIE. Yet Larry Hanauer had received a copy two days before the Times' original story and Jane Harman did not say she had not read it. What Hanauer getting the NIE when he did and Harman's comments on 10/24 indcates (to me) is they were at least tipped that the Times' was publishing a story about that particular NIE.
bttt
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