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1 posted on 01/05/2013 4:42:20 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
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2 posted on 01/05/2013 4:46:28 PM PST by jimbo123
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The Obama DOJ has prosecuted more leaks than anyone else in modern U.S. history.


5 posted on 01/05/2013 5:09:12 PM PST by Theoria
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There is no such thing as a ‘relaxed chat’ with the FBI or any LEO. The only reply for a request to chat is, “charge me & you can chat with my lawyer.”


7 posted on 01/05/2013 5:24:30 PM PST by Twotone (Marte Et Clypeo)
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Had to go find a link I saw about a year ago. Don’t talk to the police...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc


8 posted on 01/05/2013 5:28:01 PM PST by Twotone (Marte Et Clypeo)
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Obama is the one who should be in prison.


9 posted on 01/05/2013 5:47:13 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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I once spoke confidentially to a reporter-—Big mistake, Nothing is confidential to them

Never again. Reporters can KMA they are only a little lower on the snake scale top Lawyers.


10 posted on 01/05/2013 6:11:36 PM PST by Venturer
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Since when did leaking classified or sensitive information become a problem?
I've done it throughout my career and I'm a virtual hero to my voters!

12 posted on 01/05/2013 6:15:05 PM PST by Baynative (Those that work for a living are now outnumbered by those that vote for a living.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Should have kept his mouth shut and done his job. You reap what you sow.


13 posted on 01/05/2013 6:19:30 PM PST by rlmorel (1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Well that was a somewhat interesting article.
1. The guy is a blabbermouth (not entirely unusual)
2. He liked working for the CIA and did some good things but had mixed reviews
3. He seemed to like hobknobbing with journalists even more than his former job
4. He wrote a book but still owes his lawyers 500k
5. He provided a name of an agent (and probably a lot more info) to a journalist: “If I’d known the guy was still under cover,” Mr. Kiriakou said, “I would never have mentioned him.”

Near the end of the article he notes wryly that his fervent supporters now include both the Liberty [University] Christians and an array of left-wing activists.

15 posted on 01/05/2013 6:38:22 PM PST by palmer (Obama = Carter + affirmative action)
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He should have known better;
DO NOT TALK TO THE POLICE.


20 posted on 01/05/2013 7:29:18 PM PST by SJSAMPLE
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There has been a total lack of serious investigations and prosecutions re the Intelligence Agents Identities Act since it was enacted (with Ted Kennedy trying to emasculate it to the point of destroying it).

Let’s see, related investigations never undertaken
:
*Kennedy’s contacts with Moscow (see Paul Kengor’s articles about this attempt to undermine Pres. Reagan’s defense policies).

* The concealment of the true DGI/paid agent identify of Chilean Marxist, former Ambassador Orlando Letelier and his ties to the marxist Institute for Policy Studies. One of the biggest intelligence coverups of the century re the US. Lots of leftist disinformation put out to cover Letelier’s role as a Cuban agent operating in the U.S.

While technically not an IAIA case, it is actually the opposite, an example of how the media, esp. the Wash. Post, covered up communist operations and agents in the U.S.
Jack Anderson used to do this on a regular basis in his “Merry-Go-Round” column.

* Sen. John Kerry’s use of discredited marxists in his attempts to smear the freedom fighters of Nicaragua, while actively supportiner the Sandinistas himself (along with Tom Harkin and Chris Dodd, among others in Congress). Kerry’s staff refused to release information on who he hired as smear artists (Porter, Varelli, and perhaps Avirgan).

*Rep. (Father) Robert Drinan (D-Mass) illegally getting into his files and others of the House Internal Security Committee and trying to/releasing some of them. The same for another Massachusetts red, then Rep. Michael Harrington (D-Mass), a certifiable leftwing nut, like Drinan.

* Rep. Ronald Dellum (D-CA) working with the marxists/Cuban DGI contacts of OC5/PEPIC and Counterspy magazine (Phil Agee and company), among others to expose US intelligence agents around the world (Led to the death of the head of the CIA Station in Greece, Mr. Welch) and assassination attempts on others (who might not have been intell people at all).

* Attempts by Rep. Don Fraser (D-Minn), in 1974, to force US Ambassador Graham Martin to reveal top secret information that could have cost some intell people their lives (I was at that hearing. Fraser was a psychopath and hardcore marxist).

* The exposure of actual or supposed US nuclear weapons storage sites around the world by Bill Arkin, then of the marxist Institute for Policy Studies. IPS was founded by far-left liberals and reds who marched to Hanoi and never returned. IPS was funded by Communist Party USA members and one suspected Soviet agent of influence, and led by many of them plus New Left marxists now employed by George Soros.

Scores of Congressmen/women and Senators worked with IPS on slashing the defense budget, exposing intelligence secrets, and aiding communist governments in Vietnam, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Angola, among others.

IPS and their congressional followers also spread Soviet disinformation on defense and foreign affairs issues. IPS affiliated groups such as the National Center for Security Studies (NCSS), Center for International Policy, and even the Center for Defense Information (all with the Fund for Peace and IPS connections).

IPS had some serious connections with Moscow through various “peace” fronts and events. The KGB was deep into these operations. See Steve Powell’s “Covert Cadre” for some details on these operations. Also the book/study “The War Called Peace: The Soviet Peace Offensive”, 1982, Western Goals, Alex. Va. Other materials by the late Rep. Larry McDonald (D-GA) were published in the Congressional Record on the IPS, OC5/Counterspy, World Peace Council/US Peace Council (KGB ops), etc.

All these groups tried to expose US intelligence operations and directly or indirectly, those who were involved.

Never a prosecution, even under Reagan. One of his administration’s greatest failures.

No prosecutions under Obama for writers and/or organizations exposing Iraqi and Afghani citizens who helped the US to fight the terrorists. Why not?

The record is clear. The Intelligence Agents Identify Act was never going to be enforced, esp. during a Democratic administration.

The Kiriakou case is actually punishment for what he did to get Obama and his group of killers, not because he leaked the name of an intelligence official. Backdoor punishment for “waterboarding” (”torture”). A lesson to others that they are going to get prosecuted.

While he was careless in trusting any journalist, he apparently did not do it intentionally.

If we prosecuted those in the Obama administration who leaked our defense/intelligence secrets to the press, there wouldn’t be anyone left to run things.

Bad justice is no justice.


24 posted on 01/06/2013 12:00:54 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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“radical publications that deliberately sought to out undercover agents”

So just to confirm what this means,
“radical” = traitor working for enemy nation


26 posted on 01/06/2013 3:58:24 AM PST by chuck_the_tv_out
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Ex-Officer Is First in C.I.A. to Face Prison for a Leak

He failed to ask teacher for a hall pass?

29 posted on 01/06/2013 3:11:17 PM PST by lowbridge (Joe Biden: "Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy.")
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