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CIA fires employee for alleged leak
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this will just lead to the lefties shouting and squealing even louder that GW should be impeached for his "leak"
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I'm surprised this guy was just fired and not arrested. Maybe that's coming.
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... but DM's comment is hardly silly seeing some of the stuff posted about Bush in this forum re: NSA program, Plame, etc.
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This was a guy shooting his mouth off to the press; he isn't tied to anyone who is tied to Bush, other than being a government employee.
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Destroying our respect in the world, costing the country over a quarter trillion dollars and 2200 soldiers (KIA only), further destabilizing the Middle East, mishandling both North Korea and Iran and so increasing the likelihood of nuclear proliferation -- just for starters (Odd how folks get upset at being labeled part of an "Axis of Evil" when you invade the other member of that small club...) And then there's the fruits of his anti-oil conservation efforts, just now being seen. His Adminsitration is the most secrecy-conscious since Nixon's because there's so much he needs to keep secret lest the American people and the world be ven further enraged at him!
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the health care crisis, illegal immigrant problem, global warming, the American economy, and the small bald patch of grass under my oak tree
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what you all are so upset about is that a Republican is in office, and Not Gore or Kerry 
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if one of those two you mentioned were in office, gas would be a nickel a gallon. Never mind ALGORE wanted HIGHER gas prices to solve global warming
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first sign of trouble. We can blame him for staying the course and doing his job.
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Fox News just said it was a woman. Go figure, we all know they can keep secrets!
Tom
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Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. said on the newspaper's Web site, "We don't know the details of why (the CIA employee) was fired, so I can't comment on that. But as a general principle, obviously I am opposed to criminalizing the dissemination of government information to the press."
In other words, to hell with the law or National Security.
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Sandy "Document Thief" Berger, no respecter of classified information himself.
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I guess to some political gain trumps National Security.
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Alot of folks speaking on condition of [they know the're @sses would get busted].
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... what concerns me is this celebration of ''whistleblowers'' if the info suits one's political agenda.
It seems that Dana Priest knew exactly what she was revealing. She should be alongside McCarthy if anything criminal comes of it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/01/AR2005110101644.html
Evie 
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I'd say that knowingly publishing confidential material in the press should count as treason. By doing so, you're making the material available to everyone, including enemies of the state that the information focuses on.
Try them both for treason I'd say.
Or we can just wait until some leak directly costs the lives of US servicemen and operatives abroad.
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... Priest's piece, it seems as obvious as it can get that she KNEW she was revealing information that did NOT belong in the public domain. She should be prosecuted as well.
We'll call it the ''neo-McCarthyism''
Evie
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First, it has to qualify as a "leak", and the President just says that he "wants to know". That's all, just wants to know.
"If the person has violated law, that person will be taken care of."
IF the person has violated the law, This implies there could be a trial, (or they could be just taken care of, laid off, fired, promoted, demoted, disappeared) it doesn't say the person that leaked would be charged.
'I want to know the truth,' president tells reporters
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