Lieberman Calls On NYT To Be Criminally Investigated.

[Kludge]

Uh -- I mean... Investigated for criminal activity.


"Senator Joe Lieberman continues to expand his desire to piss all over the First Amendment and the very concept of a free press. He's already been pressuring companies to stop working with Wikileaks and has already introduced an anti-Wikileaks bill that appears to be pure censorship, but he's now extending his lack of understanding of the First Amendment to the press: stating that the NY Times should be investigated for criminal activity in publishing the Wikileaks documents. "

More @ http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101207/11260212166/senator-lieberman-says-ny-times-should-be-investigated-publishing-wikileaks-documents.shtml

[HOLLYWOOD]

This is 100% Bullshit Political Theatrics by Joe Lieberman... here's why.

Everything, I mean everything the NYT has released on WIKILEAKS in their news was cleared by the US Government prior.

This game by Lieberman is to give the appearance that news media is a National Security issue. That goes for the internet and he wants control of it, even if he's doing it by being a lying manipulative bitch.

PS: Lieberman will be run out of the country if he tries to destroy the 1st amendment.

[awake]

These are direct threats to the papers to come to heel , or be crushed under it.

[jmdrake]

Good! The best way to expose a tyrant is to force him to act like one. It's one thing to bully some guy with a website. Now lets see what happens when the bully the big boys.

[jmdrake]

PS: Lieberman will be run out of the country if he tries to destroy the 1st amendment.

One can only hope.

[Kludge]

Good! The best way to expose a tyrant is to force him to act like one. It's one thing to bully some guy with a website. Now lets see what happens when the bully the big boys.

Wikileaks has many multitudes more power than the NYT, which is subscribed to by less than a third of a percent of US citizens.

As to what happens when tyrants are exposed...? They're re-elected, because only a very small minority actually cares what the government does.

[TonyFromTheBronx]

NY Slimes has always loved Lieberman. This just seems like theatrics. Lieberman looks tough...and NY Slimes sells more papers.

[Mach]

Who votes for that piece of shit? Hail Lieberman! http://www.ronpaulforums.com/gfx_RedWhiteBlue/icons/icon13.gif

He seems to be anti-American.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/45930.html

But in a Thursday interview with Fox Business, (Ron) Paul said the idea of prosecuting Assange crosses the line.

“In a free society we're supposed to know the truth,” Paul said. “In a society where truth becomes treason, then we're in big trouble. And now, people who are revealing the truth are getting into trouble for it.”

“This whole notion that Assange, who's an Australian, that we want to prosecute him for treason. I mean, aren't they jumping to a wild conclusion?” he added. “This is media, isn't it? I mean, why don't we prosecute The New York Times or anybody that releases this?”

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[amy31416]

Theoretically, we could all get a blog (if you don't have one already), and publish the Wikileaks docs.

Now what, Lieberhosen?

[Depressed Liberator]

“In a free society we're supposed to know the truth,” Paul said. “In a society where truth becomes treason, then we're in big trouble. And now, people who are revealing the truth are getting into trouble for it.”

“This whole notion that Assange, who's an Australian, that we want to prosecute him for treason. I mean, aren't they jumping to a wild conclusion?” he added. “This is media, isn't it? I mean, why don't we prosecute The New York Times or anybody that releases this?”

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I don't think Paul was calling for us to prosecute the NYT, but was rather asking that if anyone was to be prosecuted, why not them? His point is that none of it makes sense.

[jmdrake]

Wikileaks has many multitudes more power than the NYT, which is subscribed to by less than a third of a percent of US citizens.

As to what happens when tyrants are exposed...? They're re-elected, because only a very small minority actually cares what the government does.

NYT readership >>>>> NYT subscribers.

I can tell you this. I was in a foreign affairs law class and was a bit surprised at all of the liberals ready to throw Wikileaks under the bus. (Well not totally surprised considering how some of these leaks hurt Hillary Clinton). I expected our class Mitt Romney clone (looks, acts and thinks like M.R.) to be anti Wiki. He was, although he did (grudgingly) agree with me that none of these leaks actually had any direct bearing on national security. But when I pointed out that the standard they were proposing could hurt outfits like the NYT as well the mood changed. (I recounted what I'd heard about the private passing the data to some news outlet before it went to Wikileaks).

I agree with you that only a small part actually cares what the government does, but that is growing. If we could only convince Liberman to attack Oprah. :D

[Dr.3D]

I have been hearing, the White House has been talking about the 1st amendment as being only for the Journalist and not for everyday citizens. If they keep this up and people start to believe that crap, what will happen next?

[oyarde]

Who votes for that piece of shit? Hail Lieberman! http://www.ronpaulforums.com/gfx_RedWhiteBlue/icons/icon13.gif

He seems to be anti-American.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/45930.html

But in a Thursday interview with Fox Business, (Ron) Paul said the idea of prosecuting Assange crosses the line.

“In a free society we're supposed to know the truth,” Paul said. “In a society where truth becomes treason, then we're in big trouble. And now, people who are revealing the truth are getting into trouble for it.”

“This whole notion that Assange, who's an Australian, that we want to prosecute him for treason. I mean, aren't they jumping to a wild conclusion?” he added. “This is media, isn't it? I mean, why don't we prosecute The New York Times or anybody that releases this?”

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I cannot figure him out or who votes for the Northeast senators or reps .

[LisaNY]

Doesn't look like the NYT is covering any more leaks, just the fallout:


'On Tuesday, The Lede continues to follow the fallout from the publication of American diplomatic cables obtained by the WikiLeaks Web site, and the legal problems of its founder, Julian Assange. (The final installment in a 9-day New York Times series on the cables concluded on Monday night, but documents continue to be published by WikiLeaks and other news organizations. '


http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/latest-updates-on-leak-of-u-s-cables-day-10/?hp

[Mach]

I don't think Paul was calling for us to prosecute the NYT, but was rather asking that if anyone was to be prosecuted, why not them? His point is that none of it makes sense.

Ok..... I'll give you a pass. :D

[RSLudlum]

And this is why his Senate site was attacked this past afternoon.


http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/tis-the-season-of-ddos-wikileaks-editio/

Update – 12/7/2010 – 3:51 PM
The target has now been changed to http://lieberman.senate.gov. This marks the first time Operation Payback has targeted a government site.

Update – 12/7/2010 – 4:16 PM
We have recorded the first downtime for lieberman.senate.gov. There are currently just under 1,000 attackers in the chat room and almost 600 computers connected to the voluntary botnet.
http://lieberman.senate.gov went down for 1 minute at 4:11 PM PST:

Update – 12/7/2010 – 4:56 PM
Operation:Payback has been under a constant DDoS counter-attack, but the attacks against the site intensified shortly after announcing the attack on Senator Lieberman’s website. We’re not sure who exactly is involved in the retaliation against the group, but we suspect that it may be a group of patriots attempting to protect the greater interests of the United States of America.