-Caveat Lector-
Oh yeah, bitch all day long about the evils of the intelligence agencies and
then turn around and bitch about a man who exposed some of their dirt.
Get a life.
Samantha
In a message dated 5/18/01 8:09:29 AM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
>
> For the story behind the story...
>
>
> Thursday May 17, 2001; 5:12 p.m. EDT
>
> Landmark: Release Secret Info on 'Leaky Leahy'
>
> The Landmark Legal Foundation has requested that the Senate
> Intelligence
> Committee release the records of its 1987 investigation into
> Vermont
> Senator Pat Leahy, who has threatened to lead a walkout of Senate
> Judiciary Committee Democrats if Republicans force a vote on Bush
> Solicitor General nominee Ted Olson.
>
> In a letter to Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard
> Shelby,
> Landmark President Mark Levin wrote Thursday:
>
> "According to numerous published reports, including most recently
> in
> NewsMax.com, on multiple occasions Sen. Leahy was the purported
> source
> of, or involved in, several leaks of classified or confidential
> intelligence information in 1985 and twice in 1987. (See Exhibit
> A.)
> The Committee conducted a six month internal investigation, after
> which
> Sen. Leahy resigned from the Committee."
>
> Landmark notes that the specifics of the investigation that led
> to
> Leahy's resignation remain under seal and argues that anything
> not still
> classified should now be released. "The public has a right to
> know when
> a prominent member of Congress violates its trust," Levin told
> Shelby.
>
> In the report referenced by Landmark that NewsMax.com headlined
> "Leaky
> Leahy," we chronicled what is publicly known about the Vermont
> Democrat's sorry record with the Senate Intelligence Committee:
>
> "Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., (then-)vice chairman of the Senate
> Intelligence Committee, inadvertantly disclosed a top secret
> communications intercept during a [1985] television interview,"
> reported
> the San Diego Union-Tribune in a 1987 editorial criticizing
> Congress'
> penchant for partisan leaks.
>
> "The intercept, apparently of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's
> telephone conversations, made possible the capture of the Arab
> terrorists who had hijacked the cruise ship Achille Lauro and
> murdered
> American citizens," the paper said, adding, "The reports cost the
> life
> of at least one Egyptian operative involved in the operation."
>
> In July 1987, the Washington Times reported that Leahy leaked
> secret
> information about a 1986 covert operation planned by the Reagan
> administration to topple Lybian strongman Moammar Gaddhafi.
>
> "I thought [the operation] was probably the most ridiculous thing
> I had
> seen, and also the most irresponsible," the leading Intelligence
> Committee Democrat allegedly said of the secret plan.
>
> Unidentified U.S. intelligence officials told the Times that
> Leahy,
> along with Republican panel chairman Sen. Dave Durenberger,
> communicated 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.
>
> Leahy vehemently denied he talked to the press about any of the
> administration's covert operations, saying, "I never have, and
> I'm not
> going to start now."
>
> But just a year later, as the Senate was preparing to hold
> hearings on
> the Iran-Contra scandal, the Vermont senator had to resign his
> Intelligence Committee post after he was caught leaking secret
> information to a reporter.
>
> The ranking Intelligence Committee Democrat decided to let an NBC
> reporter comb through the committee's confidential draft report
> on the
> scandal. The network aired a report based on the inside
> information on
> Jan. 11, 1987.
>
> After a six-month internal investigation, Leahy "voluntarily"
> stepped
> down from his committee post, releasing a statement calling his
> resignation "a suitable way to express ... anger and regret" over
> his
> lapse.
>
> Leahy's anger, he said, was at himself, "for carelessly allowing
> the
> press person to examine the unclassified draft and to be alone
> with it."
>
> The Vermont Democrat's Iran-Contra leak was considered to be one
> of the
> most serious breaches of secrecy in the committee's 10-year
> history.
>
> After Leahy's resignation, the Senate Intelligence Committee
> decided to
> restrict access to committee documents to a security-enhanced
> meeting
> room.
>
> In fact, the final committee report turned out to be considerably
> different from Leahy's leaked draft.
>
> NewsMax.com first reported those inconvenient details from
> Leahy's
> resume in January, when he was leading the charge against Bush
> Attorney
> General nominee John Ashcroft.
>
> Now that the Vermont Democrat is up to his hold tricks again,
> trying to
> scuttle Mr. Olson's nomination despite stellar character
> references
> from Democratic Party legal stars Laurence Tribe and Robert
> Bennett,
> perhaps Landmark's request will prompt Chairman Shelby to
> consider
> filling in the blanks in Leahy's record.
>
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> TZEVAOT
>
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>
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