Yes, I Concur: It's Time For Some Investigations
(Hat-Tip: Captain's Quarters)
House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Senate Majority leader Bill Frist have called for investigations into the CIA leaks of recent. They are focusing on the WaPo piece from last week where this bird-cage liner ran a story talking about secret CIA prisons where detainees have been taken, and are currently being held. This is a serious threat to national security because it undermines our ability to fully prosecute this war.
The top two Republicans in Congress want the House and Senate intelligence committees to investigate who leaked to the press that the U.S. runs secret prisons overseas.
Also yesterday, a U.S. official told reporters that the CIA had taken the first step toward a criminal investigation of the leak of classified information.
House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee noted that the leak, which said the CIA-run prisons are used to interrogate terror suspects, could threaten national security. "If accurate, such an egregious disclosure could have long-term and far-reaching damaging and dangerous consequences, and will imperil our efforts to protect the American people and our homeland from terrorist attacks," they wrote in a letter to the committee chairmen.
The note calls for a look into who made the leak, what damage was done to the United States and its partners in the war on terror, and whether the information was accurate.
The Washington Post reported last week, citing anonymous U.S. and foreign officials, that the CIA for the past four years has run a covert prison system that has included sites in eight countries. Details of the locations of the prisons, referred to as "black sites," are closely guarded among U.S. and foreign officials.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said the Republicans' call to investigate the leak was "only a play to the press, that's all this is."
The Nevada Democrat said the committees could start their own investigations without direction from the leaders, and that if Mr. Hastert and Mr. Frist really were interested in accountability, they would support an investigation into whether the Bush administration manipulated intelligence to make its case for going to war in Iraq.
Plaing to the press? Reid knows all about that, now doesn't he. And his swipe back at the two GOP leaders proves it. Again, he wants answers regarding pre-war intelligence. Well, I'm sorry Harry, but the same information we used in 2003 to go into Iraq was the same intelligence you morons used in 1998 to justify Clinton's cruise missile strikes into Iraq. So, I fail to see how you can sit atop that pedestal acting in such a self-righteous manner.
Frist and Hastert are correct. We do need these investigations, and even more, they should go where the information takes them, no matter who's doorstep it ends up on. I don't care if it leads to a senator, a staffer, or a high-ranking CIA official. And whoever it is, I want charges filed. Revealing classified national secrets is an act of treason. I'm not a big fan of the CIA since the Church Committee ripped them apart, and the likes of Carter and Clinton tried to finish the job. Their abilities have been severely hampered, and when you have a intelligence agnecy this crippled it's virtually useless. But the question is who keeps crippling it. Is it on the inside, or is it within DC? This is why we need these investigations.
Reid and the Democrats can cry and scream about their non-issue investigations about pre-war intelligence, but I don't care. I've seen that intelligence, and I've seen the records of what we've found over there. It's not my fault that the MSM refuse to tell the whole story. And for those out there that say that no one's found anything, I suggest they have a discussion with Richard Miniter or Bill Gertz; both have written extensively on the subject of what has been found in Iraq. So, there request is a moot point.
But the request made by Frist and Hastert is worth the hassle that might arise. We need to know who keeps yapping to the press, and they need to be shut up. We can't fight a war if we have a fifth-column within the government that might be undermining us.
Publius II
(Hat-Tip: Captain's Quarters)
House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Senate Majority leader Bill Frist have called for investigations into the CIA leaks of recent. They are focusing on the WaPo piece from last week where this bird-cage liner ran a story talking about secret CIA prisons where detainees have been taken, and are currently being held. This is a serious threat to national security because it undermines our ability to fully prosecute this war.
The top two Republicans in Congress want the House and Senate intelligence committees to investigate who leaked to the press that the U.S. runs secret prisons overseas.
Also yesterday, a U.S. official told reporters that the CIA had taken the first step toward a criminal investigation of the leak of classified information.
House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee noted that the leak, which said the CIA-run prisons are used to interrogate terror suspects, could threaten national security. "If accurate, such an egregious disclosure could have long-term and far-reaching damaging and dangerous consequences, and will imperil our efforts to protect the American people and our homeland from terrorist attacks," they wrote in a letter to the committee chairmen.
The note calls for a look into who made the leak, what damage was done to the United States and its partners in the war on terror, and whether the information was accurate.
The Washington Post reported last week, citing anonymous U.S. and foreign officials, that the CIA for the past four years has run a covert prison system that has included sites in eight countries. Details of the locations of the prisons, referred to as "black sites," are closely guarded among U.S. and foreign officials.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said the Republicans' call to investigate the leak was "only a play to the press, that's all this is."
The Nevada Democrat said the committees could start their own investigations without direction from the leaders, and that if Mr. Hastert and Mr. Frist really were interested in accountability, they would support an investigation into whether the Bush administration manipulated intelligence to make its case for going to war in Iraq.
Plaing to the press? Reid knows all about that, now doesn't he. And his swipe back at the two GOP leaders proves it. Again, he wants answers regarding pre-war intelligence. Well, I'm sorry Harry, but the same information we used in 2003 to go into Iraq was the same intelligence you morons used in 1998 to justify Clinton's cruise missile strikes into Iraq. So, I fail to see how you can sit atop that pedestal acting in such a self-righteous manner.
Frist and Hastert are correct. We do need these investigations, and even more, they should go where the information takes them, no matter who's doorstep it ends up on. I don't care if it leads to a senator, a staffer, or a high-ranking CIA official. And whoever it is, I want charges filed. Revealing classified national secrets is an act of treason. I'm not a big fan of the CIA since the Church Committee ripped them apart, and the likes of Carter and Clinton tried to finish the job. Their abilities have been severely hampered, and when you have a intelligence agnecy this crippled it's virtually useless. But the question is who keeps crippling it. Is it on the inside, or is it within DC? This is why we need these investigations.
Reid and the Democrats can cry and scream about their non-issue investigations about pre-war intelligence, but I don't care. I've seen that intelligence, and I've seen the records of what we've found over there. It's not my fault that the MSM refuse to tell the whole story. And for those out there that say that no one's found anything, I suggest they have a discussion with Richard Miniter or Bill Gertz; both have written extensively on the subject of what has been found in Iraq. So, there request is a moot point.
But the request made by Frist and Hastert is worth the hassle that might arise. We need to know who keeps yapping to the press, and they need to be shut up. We can't fight a war if we have a fifth-column within the government that might be undermining us.
Publius II
posted by Syd And Vaughn | 4:55 PM
1 Comments:
Good blog. I agree when a leak or act may jeopardize national security, there should be an investigation. And the person or persons responsible should be criminally indicted for felonies. I care not who they are. In time of war, there are intentional leaks to mislead or confuse the enemy. These were used very effectively during WW2. Leaks for political purposes should not be tolerated and in fact an indictable crime. To falsely accuse another of leaking should also be a crime. Rawriter
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