Posted on 07/26/2005 10:05:41 PM PDT by Sam Hill
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I saw all I needed to see when I saw Ellsburgs signature on it.
This Larry Johnson A hole is turning out to be a rank amateur and an even worse political hack
Ping
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It is time for unauthorized truth-telling.
Citizens cannot make informed choices if they do not have the facts--for example, the facts that have been wrongly concealed about the ongoing war in Iraq: the real reasons behind it, the prospective costs in blood and treasure, and the setback it has dealt to efforts to stem terrorism. Administration deception and cover-up on these vital matters has so far been all too successful in misleading the public. Also See:
TruthTellingProject.org Many Americans are too young to remember Vietnam. Then, as now, senior government officials did not tell the American people the truth. Now, as then, insiders who know better have kept their silence, as the country was misled into the most serious foreign policy disaster since Vietnam.
Some of you have documentation of wrongly concealed facts and analyses that--if brought to light--would impact heavily on public debate regarding crucial matters of national security, both foreign and domestic. We urge you to provide that information now, both to Congress and, through the media, to the public.
Thanks to our First Amendment, there is in America no broad Officials Secrets Act, nor even a statutory basis for the classification system. Only very rarely would it be appropriate to reveal information of the three types whose disclosure has been expressly criminalized by Congress: communications intelligence, nuclear data, and the identity of US intelligence operatives. However, this administration has stretched existing criminal laws to cover other disclosures in ways never contemplated by Congress.
There is a growing network of support for whistleblowers. In particular, for anyone who wishes to know the legal implications of disclosures they may be contemplating, the ACLU stands ready to provide pro bono legal counsel, with lawyer-client privilege. The Project on Government Oversight (POGO) will offer advice on whistleblowing, dissemination and relations with the media.
Needless to say, any unauthorized disclosure that exposes your superiors to embarrassment entails personal risk. Should you be identified as the source, the price could be considerable, including loss of career and possibly even prosecution. Some of us know from experience how difficult it is to countenance such costs. But continued silence brings an even more terrible cost, as our leaders persist in a disastrous course and young Americans come home in coffins or with missing limbs.
This is precisely what happened at this comparable stage in the Vietnam War. Some of us live with profound regret that we did not at that point expose the administration's dishonesty and perhaps prevent the needless slaughter of 50,000 more American troops and some 2 to 3 million Vietnamese over the next ten years. We know how misplaced loyalty to bosses, agencies, and careers can obscure the higher allegiance all government officials owe the Constitution, the sovereign public, and the young men and women put in harm's way. We urge you to act on those higher loyalties.
A hundred forty thousand young Americans are risking their lives every day in Iraq for dubious purpose. Our country has urgent need of comparable moral courage from its public officials. Truth-telling is a patriotic and effective way to serve the nation. The time for speaking out is now.
SIGNATORIES
Edward Costello, Former Special Agent (Counterintelligence), Federal Bureau of Investigation
Sibel Edmonds, Former Language Specialist, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Daniel Ellsberg, Former official, U.S. Departments of Defense and State
John D. Heinberg, Former Economist, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor
Larry C. Johnson, Former Deputy Director for Anti-Terrorism Assistance, Transportation Security, and Special Operations, Department of
State, Office of the Coordinator for Counter Terrorism
John Brady Kiesling, Former Political Counselor, U.S. Embassy, Athens, Department of State
David MacMichael, Former Senior Estimates Officer, National Intelligence Council, Central Intelligence Agency
Ray McGovern, Former Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency
Philip G. Vargas, Ph.D., J.D., Dir. Privacy & Confidentiality Study, Commission on Federal Paperwork (Author/Director: "The Vargas
Report on Government Secrecy"--CENSORED)
Ann Wright, Retired U.S. Army Reserve Colonel and U.S. Foreign Service Officer
Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatowski, recently retired from service in the Pentagon's Office of Near East planning
Ellsberg should still be rotting in prison for his efforts in the late 60s. Now he wants to urge others to follow in his footsteps.
Isn't there sedition statutes or other charges the government could bring against these idiots?
(snip)
John D. Heinberg, Former Economist, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor
Anti-Lame-Signature Sarcasm Torpedo ARMED. FIRE!!
Pardon my French, but WTF is an economist from the US Department of Labor doing here? Is he some left-over Marxist plant or a Union thug?
Cheers!
Larry C. Johnson says:
"Thanks to our First Amendment, there is in America no broad Officials Secrets Act, nor even a statutory basis for the classification system."
So if nothing is classified how the hell do you have a leak, Larry?
So glad the DNC has annointed this traitor and pathological liar as their spokesman. So perfect.
Larry C. Johnson says:
"There is a growing network of support for whistleblowers. In particular, for anyone who wishes to know the legal implications of disclosures they may be contemplating, the ACLU stands ready to provide pro bono legal counsel, with lawyer-client privilege."
Thank God for the ACLU. Always ready to pitch in and help traitors, no matter the cost.
Say, did they offer to help Rove or Libby--even though we know now they leaked nothing. But does the ACLU know that?
The Truth-Telling Project: A Call to Patriotic Whistleblowing
ACLU Offers Legal Counsel to Government Whistleblowers; Calls on Congress to Adopt Whistleblower Protection Legislation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 9, 2004
CONTACT: Paul Silva, ACLU
(212) 549-2689 or 2666
WASHINGTON—At a press conference held by prominent government whistleblowers, the American Civil Liberties Union today announced that it will provide legal counsel to federal employees who may want to come forward to expose government wrongdoing or cover-ups.
“Government employees who risk their careers to expose deception and misconduct are true American patriots,” said Ann Beeson, ACLU Associate Legal Director. “The ACLU stands ready to provide legal support and advice to individuals who want to reveal evidence of wrongdoing by the government.”
The ACLU issued its announcement at a press conference sponsored by Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and his organization, the Truth-Telling Project. The press conference also featured comments from CIA whistleblower Ray McGovern and FBI whistleblowers Sibel Edmonds and Coleen Rowley.
According to the ACLU, whistleblowers need legal counsel because they may lose their jobs or even face criminal prosecution for exposing government wrongdoing. The ACLU has established a special e-mail address to respond to inquiries from potential whistleblowers, whistleblower@aclu.org, and will shortly launch a hotline as well.
http://www.ellsberg.net/truthtellingproject/content/aclu.html
Is this the Anarchists International Support Group or what? I just can't believe they're being this blatant .. as if they don't risk charges of treason and sedition with what they're encouraging government employees to do here. What do they know that we don't know?? What makes them think they're insulated from prosecution?
"Is this the Anarchists International Support Group or what? I just can't believe they're being this blatant .. as if they don't risk charges of treason and sedition with what they're encouraging government employees to do here. What do they know that we don't know?? What makes them think they're insulated from prosecution?"
Well, Ellsberg is a hero. So I guess they feel like they have nothing to worry about.
They've been doing this for years.
But it is pretty shocking, isn't it? We are at war. They are begging for people to break the law--to hurt this country's war effort.
How that is not sedition or treason, I don't know. I suspect at any other time prior, or any other country, they would be strung up.
They are traitors, pure and simple.
I wish he would! It would be his very final mistake.
What I am worrying about now is that all this info coming out so fast, isn't just a smoke screen to hide the real criminals.
Larry Johnson is a Punk by anyone's standards. That hair lipped loser has some nerve threatening a fellow freeper simply because he was caught in a lie.
I thought Ellsberg was dead. Darn.
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