Posted on 11/10/2006 1:40:59 PM PST by Pirate21
Former special forces officer and columnist Geoff Metcalf provided a brief overview of Senator Leaky Leahy's record of divulging secrets:
* Senator Pat Leahy was annoyed with the Reagan administration's war on terrorism in the 1980s. At the time he was vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Therefore, "Leaky Leahy," threatened to sabotage classified strategies he didn't like.
* Leahy "inadvertently" disclosed a top-secret communications intercept during a 1985 television interview. The intercept had made possible the capture of the Arab terrorists who had hijacked the cruise ship Achille Lauro and murdered American citizen. But Leahy's leak cost the life of at least one Egyptian "asset" involved in the operation.
* In July 1987, it was reported that Leahy leaked secret information about a 1986 covert operation planned by the Reagan administration to topple Libya's Moammar Gaddhafi. US intelligence officials stated that Leahy sent a written threat to expose the operation directly to then-CIA Director William Casey. Weeks later, news of the secret plan turned up in the Washington Post, causing it to be aborted.
* A year later, as the Senate was preparing to hold hearings on the Iran-Contra scandal, Leahy had to resign his Intelligence Committee post after he was caught leaking secret information to a reporter. The Vermont Democrat's Iran-Contra leak was considered to be one of the most serious breaches of secrecy in the committee's 28-year history. After Leahy's resignation, the Senate Intelligence Committee decided to restrict access to committee documents to a security-enhanced meeting room.
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So where did the big mouth go? To the Judiciary Committee where he still has access to classified information and documents.
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Get out the popcorn, it's gonna get real hairy...
Once again you can only blame the pubbies for not going after him on charges of treason. If the shoe were on the other foot the democrats would have held hearings and investigations until the republican transgressor resigned. What a joke they are.
I'm wondering, whatever happened to the vow our military and executive take to protect us from "all enemies, foreign and domestic" ?
I am going to turn off the TV for two years.
I can only wonder why this traitor hasn't swung from the end of a rope.
I agree. The leadership in Congress and the White House all acted like they were Democrats from the start.
Yeah, especially the domestic part!
ROTFLOL ~~~~ It just keeps getting better and better each day... I just hope we all sit back and learn from the ride instead of stooping to the level of the DUers.
I was thinking about upgrading my cable service so I can get DYI as well as HGTV... those reruns get pretty old so I could switch back and forth... can't take MSNBC or CNN at all and Fox is getting really tough.
I really like President Bush, but I am very sorry that he was so unwilling to investigate leakers of national security secrets. Turning the other cheek does not work with extremists.
Did you or I take to the streets & destroy property to get attention & results? Then did we ever take a day off work to protest? Then did we ever make a personal visit to talk with our Congresspeople? Then did we ever call our Congresspeople? Then do we really know who our Congresscritters are? These traitors get away with this because we don't DEMAND their punishment & do something (ACTION) about it.
The great granddaddy of the Grand Old Party, Abraham Lincoln, would have had this traitor hanging from a rope or imprisoned.
I fear that because of this election, too many people will learn what the victims of 9/11 learned from their "ride", except they didn't live to use the lesson.
Lives will be lost. People will die because of the philosophies of the left being implemented. I'm thoroughly, objectively (as much as possible) convinced this is true. It has always been so.
Once again you can only blame the pubbies for not going after him on charges of treason. If the shoe were on the other foot the democrats would have held hearings and investigations until the republican transgressor resigned. What a joke they are.A pathetic, sick, disgusting, nauseating joke. Six wasted years. Six years of blown opportunities. Only the Palestinians blow more opportunities than the Republican "leadership" has blown in the last six years.
Who is worse, Al Qaeda or the Democrats who love them?
And who is worse, the Democrats or the "Republicans" who kowtow to them?
That sounds too much either like mob rule or like the folks on Capitol Hill are expected to govern by polling their constituents.
In this representative republic, I thought our elected officials were sworn to defend the Constitution. Silly me.
Great idea. With all that spare time, you can help us spread the word to Vermont voters. Here's a list of 19 Vermont newspapers that count.
In the beginning the President said it was time to move on and not investigate dems and clinton's etc.
Wonder if he's sorry now.
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