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| Congresswoman Harman: NYT should be prosecuted | |
| 2006-02-14 | |
| In a stunning break with her party, the ranking Democrat(!) on the House Intelligence Committee said Sunday that the New York Times should be prosecuted for damaging national security by revealing the National Security Agency's top secret terrorist surveillance program authorized by President Bush. "If the press was part of the process of delivering classified information, there have to be some limits on press immunity," Rep. Jane Harman told NBC's "Meet the Press." Moderator Tim Russert then pressed: "But if [the NSA leak] came from a whistleblower, should the New York Times reporter be prosecuted?" Harman countered: "Well, it's not clear it was a whistleblower. You have to prove that first. If it's protected by the whistleblower statute, then it's protected," she explained. Harman then added, however, that CIA Director Porter Goss recently said that the Times' sources don't qualify under the whistleblower statute.
A liberal who is a patriot. Is this who LiberalHawk really is? There are so few. | |
| Posted by:Jackal |
| #9 Not sure which of these is the real Jane Harmon. 2002 "Al Qa’ida is digital — existing in disparate cells and planning attacks using the Internet and disposable cell phones. The NSA must counter this technology with better technology of its own. Our report recommends improvements to the acquisition and use of such technology." 2006- After the program became public "The 1947 National Security Act only permits the President to limit the briefings to the so-called Gang of 8 for "covert action" programs. Covert action is defined as "activities of the United States Government to influence political, economic, or military conditions abroad, where it is intended that the role of the United States Government will not be apparent." The NSA program is not a covert action." |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2006-02-14 14:19 |
| #8 No Im not Rep Harman, :-) We're not so few. There are even some of us who may not agree with Rep Harman on this (im not saying I dont - the question of prosecuting the NYT isnt really one of the issues Ive been following closely, to be honest) |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2006-02-14 14:00 |
| #7 Now, here on display is the absolute genius of Karl Rove. It has now been established through the mechanism of the Wilson/Plame/Libby affair--stoked at every turn by the NYT--that the leaking of classified information is a criminal offense to be aggressively pursued, and that journalists involved in a leak have no special journalistic immunity. Now that the NYT has published leaked, classified information . . . WHAM-O!, hoist by their own petard. |
| Posted by: Mike 2006-02-14 12:45 |
| #6 Put a width statement in an img src..... |
| Posted by: 6 2006-02-14 12:11 |
| #5 How about this one? My personal favorite, heh. It applies to the ID card story, too, lol. Sure to offend almost everyone equally, lol. BTW, I'm still jealous that you, Frank, B-man, and quite a few others have been honored with the Scarlet S, lol. I guess I'm just not trying hard enough. I'll do better, I promise. ;-) |
| Posted by: .com 2006-02-14 02:29 |
| #4 Insert sink trap bait picture here. She is from a weird county. North and Rural is conservative Santa Barbara is liberal. She is right the paper needs to feel some pain. I am all for a death sentence for companies that hurt our national interests during war time. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet O´ Doom 2006-02-14 02:24 |
| #3 Oops, forgot... Regards the story, this does, indeed, sound like the one I hear on Fox. She's anything but stupid - and sees where this thing is headed. She seems to know the difference, since she has been briefed from Day One, between "innocent whistle-blowing" (if such a thing actually exists regards national security issues, which I don't accept), and treasonous disclosures to the Enemy MSM. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-02-14 01:49 |
| #2 She's certainly a funny bird. I watch her in interviews and as a commentator frequently on Fox News. Most of the time, she's not only rational and coherent, but bullish on security and the WoT. Then I read article in which she's quoted as trying to play the imaginary middle, as in taking some silly LE stance, or toeing the Dhimmidonk Party line. Not sure which of these is the real Jane Harmon. I guess I'll take the one that I see and hear speaking for herself - sans a script and sans editorial filters - the rational and intelligent one, most of the time - over the cherry-picked BS that is portrayed by the LLL MSM outlets. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-02-14 01:45 |
| #1 I guess they're selling parkas in hell right about now... |
| Posted by: badanov 2006-02-14 01:29 |
