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U.S. Constitution: First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech,
or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to
petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment01/
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CIA Expert: Leaks of Classified Information Must Stop
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495&article=31236
Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com
Saturday, July 27, 2002
===> WASHINGTON � "We�ve got to do whatever it takes � if it takes
sending SWAT teams into journalists� homes � to stop these
leaks,� admonished James B. Bruce, vice chairman of the CIA's
Foreign Denial and Deception Committee. <=====
Whether the classified information is National Security Agency
encrypted message intercepts of pre-Sept. 11 chatter, war plans
for the invasion of Iraq, or the fact that U.S. intelligence was
tracking Osama bin Laden�s wireless phone calls, leaks have more
than Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick
Chaney in an uproar.
'Presumptive Right to Leak'
Bruce, who has also served the CIA as deputy national intelligence
officer for science and technology in the National Intelligence
Council, admonished, "Somehow there has evolved a presumptive
right of the press to leak classified information.
"I hope we get a test case, soon, that will pit the government�s need
to prosecute those who leak its classified documents against the
guarantees of free speech. I�m betting the government will win,�
Bruce said to an audience this week at Washington�s Institute of
World Politics.
"What the media person should do is return the classified materials
to the source with the proviso: �I have no right to this material.��
Look What Clinton Veto and Pardon Did
Bruce, a former professor of national security policy at National
War College and current adjunct professor at Georgetown
University, nailed home his points by touting the Shelby
Amendment, vetoed by Bill Clinton, to make leaks of classified
materials criminally actionable.
He decried Clinton�s pardon of former Navy intelligence analyst
Samuel L. Morison, the only government official ever convicted of
leaking classified information to the media.
Current laws (under which Morison was charged and convicted)
prohibit the release of information that would compromise national
security. The measure sponsored by Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala.,
would impose a broader standard, making it a felony to leak
anything that the government has deemed classified. Violators,
including government officials of all kinds, would face a fine and up
to three years in prison.
"I helped pushed legislation for years to make it easier to
prosecute people who willfully and knowingly leak classified
information,� Shelby recently told CBS News.
"President Clinton vetoed that bill several years ago. It might be the
time to try to bring it back. I�ve talked to the White House before
about this. The attorney general, John Ashcroft, is working now �
he�s got a task force working with some of us in the Senate to try to
come up with some acceptable legislation. Maybe this fall ...�
Where's Bush?
Despite Shelby�s apparent optimism, the Bush administration thus
far has not been exactly beating the drum for Shelby�s tough
legislation.
Last year just days before 9-11, Shelby returned to Capitol Hill for
what he thought would be a hearing on his plan to criminalize the
release of classified information. He was surprised, however, by a
last-minute request by Attorney General John Ashcroft to call off the
hearing and give Justice more time to evaluate it. The bill has been
shelved since.
Although Shelby said Ashcroft simply needed more time to review
the issue, a senior administration official told the Associated Press
at the time that the bill was problematic and unnecessary.
Shelby was also in the van of those sharply critical of Clinton�s
11th-hour pardon Jan. 20, 2001 of Morison, who, after his surprise
gift from the president, admitted that he was wrong to leak satellite
photos of a Soviet aircraft carrier to Jane�s Fighting Ships. Morison
justified his leak of the classified pictures by arguing that the public
needed to be warned that the Soviet Union was preparing to
greatly expand its naval reach.
At the time Shelby said the pardon only underscored the need for
new legislation explicitly criminalizing leaks. Those that lauded the
pardon argued that Morison�s 1984 transgression was a strained
test case that unfairly hammered relatively benign facts to fit the
espionage statutes.
Bruce agrees with Shelby�s assessment. The senator has said:
"It�s not an issue that�s going to go away. The leaks are too
prevalent. The news people like all the leaks because they give
them stories, but there has been and will be damage to national
security because of leaks. They�re just too prevalent.�
And Bruce�s hoped-for test case may indeed be on the horizon.
Last month, Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., asked the Justice
Department to investigate who told reporters about the NSA�s
intercepted messages on the eve of the Sept. 11 attacks. The
messages, referring to an upcoming "match� and "zero hour,� were
not read and interpreted until Sept. 12.
Steven Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy
for the Federation of American Scientists, has opined that whoever
spoke those words now realizes that his communications were
monitored. "There is the potential for harm,� Aftergood concluded.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/7/26/180942.shtml
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Whistleblower Complains of FBI Obstruction
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/WTC_whistleblower3.htm
Coleen Rowley's Memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/WTC_whistleblower1.htm
TERRORIST READING LIST:
Librarians! Citizens! Be advised that terrorists are easily identified by
their chosen reading material. Please study the list of terrorist-preferred
volumes below - and promptly report any persons you may encounter reading
them to the FBI Terror Literature specialists who will soon be visiting
your community!
http://www.whitehouse.org/homeland/reading.asp
The real Whitehouse:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
The Department of Homeland Security
http://www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/
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Operation MOCKINGBIRD
It was conceived in the late 1940s, the most frigid period of the cold war,
when the CIA began a systematic infiltration of the corporate media, a
process that often included direct takeover of major news outlets.
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495&article=30985
The CIA Commits More Than 100,000 Serious Crimes Per Year
Don't take our word for it�read the Congressional report
http://www.thememoryhole.org/ciacrimes.htm
FBI whistle-blower tells how the Clintons helped cause 9-11
http://www.newsmaxstore.com/nms/showdetl.cfm?&Product_ID=741&DID=6
Operation TIPS-TIPS: Report TIPS informants
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495&article=31190
`In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.'
http://disc.server.com/Indices/149495.html
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