'Leaky Leahy' Suspected in Leaked 9-11 Committee Report

newsmax ^ | 8/28/02 | Limbacher

[mware]

Newmax got it right. Here is a part of todays NYT article regarding the leak.

The report by the 19-member Senate Judiciary Committee will be made public next month, but the Times obtained a draft copy on Tuesday.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...LEAHY =

...The Enemy is now Within...

...and always has been.

[jackbill]

The request suggests that the FBI is now focusing on the handful of senior senators who are members of a Senate-House panel investigating Sept. 11 and attend most classified meetings and read all the most sensitive intelligence agency communications. A similar request did not go to House intelligence committee members.

The fact that the FBI has not requested the information from the House members is telling. I believe that it was Bill Krystol who said the other day that he believes that the FBI knows just which senator leaked the NSA information but are "casting a broad net" as a ploy.

If so, what are the odds? Republican or DemocRAT?

[jackbill]

Newmax got it right. Here is a part of todays NYT article regarding the leak.

Newsmax got it right - except for the last two sentences. Those two sentences are related to an entirely different leak, apparently from the Joint House/Senate Intelligence committee. That leak had to do with a couple of messages that the NSA had intercepted just before 9/11 but didn't translate until 9/12. Those messages indicated that something big was going to happen soon.

[jackbill]

The request suggests that the FBI is now focusing on the handful of senior senators who are members of a Senate-House panel investigating Sept. 11 and attend most classified meetings and read all the most sensitive intelligence agency communications.

Looks like the Washington Compost even got it a bit wrong. The 17 senators being investigated aren't necessarily "senior senators" - either in age or seniority. They just happen to be ALL of the 17 senators on the senate Committee on Intelligence. Senators Edwards and Thompson are among them and they are both in their first term.

[Political Junkie Too]

You're not confused.

This article wasn't meant to convey any facts. It is a yellow journalistic attempt to smear the opposition with innuendo and past acts of bad faith in order to put them on the defensive (not that there's anything wrong with that).

-PJ

[Lancey Howard]

It is known by everyone that Leahy is a sickening, baby-faced scumbag.
And Leahy keeps getting reelected by Vermont voters.
Ergo, a majority of Vermont voters are themselves scumbags.

I don't think of Vermont as being loaded with major parasite centers (cities), and yet the people there elect and reelect jack-in-the-box clowns like Bernie Sanders, and sickening scumbags like Leahy. Is the place loaded with parasites? Or just loaded with scumbags?

[Utah Girl]

Well, I'm just shocked, shocked I tell you. Gee, what a surprise...

[Lancey Howard]

It is a yellow journalistic attempt to smear the opposition with innuendo and past acts of bad faith in order to put them on the defensive

First, I didn't see much "innuendo", only a recap of scumbag Leahy's leaks of classified information, his resignation in disgrace from the Senate Intelligence Committee, and his continuing threat to national security. I believe that these are important things for people to keep in mind.

So I think I'll bump this thread every few hours or so. Won't you join me?

[Political Junkie Too]

Perhaps. The innuendo is that Leahy is responsible again.

I agree that this must be kept in front of people or they will forget.

-PJ

[Lancey Howard]

The innuendo is that Leahy is responsible again.

Yep, I guess you're right about that, although the headline merely says that he is "suspected". Sure, he is "suspected" along with 16 others, but he is the one with the history and if I was a detective, he would be my prime suspect.

Nice hit peice by NewsMax though. I wish there were a lot more news sources willing to fight the scumbags the way the scumbags have always fought us.
Bravo once again to NewsMax for having some guts. May it spread to the Republican Party.

[Political Junkie Too]

This leads me to a topic that I thought would make a nice column for somebody: Taking The "High Road."

We keep hearing about how the Republicans, or Bush, try to take the "high road" in politics. Bush tries to "change the tone in Washington." Republicans are held to a higher standard because they run on "high ground" morals and family values. This would imply, by contrast, that the Democrats take the "low road." In fact, Democrats (or Democrat supporters) use this as the reason why scandals hurt Republicans more.

My confusion is this: If Republicans are taking the "high road," then why do Democrats insist on making wild scandal accusations (and why do people simultaneously accept the accusations and the proposition that Republicans take the "high road) and yet when they (Democrats) are caught in real scandals they say "let's not point fingers, let's not play the blame game, we have to look forward not backwards, blah blah blah."

If you lay down with dogs, then you wake up with fleas. Democrats consistently take the low road compared to Republicans and yet they consistently try to smear Republicans with fabricated scandals. Why would the population believe that a group that endeavors to take the high road (if you believe Democrats) would somehow wind up with more, or more severe, scandals than the group that consistently takes the low road? Why would people accept the notion that a group that consistently takes the low road should have their repeated scandals ignored?

Of course, these are all rhetorical questions -- we all know the answers.

-PJ

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

I suspected Leahy but think there are others.

[Political Junkie Too]

Wasn't there some speculation that Feinstein was responsible for the very first leak that purturbed Bush when he took over? I remember some speculation that after the first leak occured, Feinstein wasn't invited back to the White House for additional briefings. I can't remember the exact story, but this sticks out in my mind.

-PJ

[ravingnutter]

"These threats were relayed on a bipartisan basis to the House Intelligence Committee in real time," said House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, Illinois Republican. "In fact, Senator Dianne Feinstein said on July 1, 2001, on the Wolf Blitzer show that she had been told that a major attack on the United States could be expected in the next three months."

Mrs. Feinstein, California Democrat and Senate committee member, said yesterday she did not know anything specific, but that her remarks stemmed from a "deep sense of foreboding" that an attack was imminent. She said neither she nor the White House could have foreseen September 11, something on which several other intelligence committee members from both chambers and parties agreed.

Source

[ravingnutter]

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FBI Raids Hillary's Warehouse in Whitewater Deja Vu -06/24/02

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[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Remember how Newt was too successful and the only option was to spin him off in media lies? Rush always maintained that the Leftists are most interesting when out of power, well here we are. No legislature being discussed (realize resolving problems eliminates issues), war issues must suddenly be approved by Congress, and the leaking game hasn't yet ended. America faces some very serious issues yet as always the Leftists are more than willing to place their needs in front of the nation's. A damn shame Newt is on television instead of a committee...

[cake_crumb]

"I suspected Leahy but think there are others."

Yep...and not necessarily only those on the comittee in question : there's Dashless, McStain, Dickie G and Hillary, et al.

[princess leah]

This ought to be a MAJOR issue for the election cycle - put out commercials that show Senator Leahy being kicked off the intelligence committee 10 years ago for leaking information, then show Gary Condit being kicked out when he had been on the intelligence committee and then finish with this question - America IS at WAR - ONLY YOU, THE VOTING PUBLIC CAN HELP US BY GIVING PRESIDENT BUSH THE CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS WHO WILL KEEP THEIR MOUTHS SHUT and SUPPORT THE WAR EFFORT!

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

I would bet good money that Leahy is a closet nudist!!