NYT front page tomorrow: Sprawling leak investigations engulf hundreds of govt officials

[sailingaway]

NYT front page tomorrow: Sprawling leak investigations engulfing hundreds of government officials, chilling the press

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/us...nted=2&hp&_r=0

Mr. Binney spent more than $7,000 on legal fees. But far more devastating, he said, was the N.S.A.’s decision to strip his security clearance, forcing him to close the business he ran with former colleagues, costing him an annual income of $300,000.

“After a raid like that, you’re always sitting here wondering if they’re coming back,” Mr. Binney said. “This did not feel like the America we grew up in.”

One of the most striking recent revelations about the Obama administration’s pursuit of leakers was the disclosure that the Justice Department had obtained e-mails from the Google account of James Rosen of Fox News, in which he corresponded with a State Department analyst suspected of leaking classified information about North Korea. Investigators routinely search the e-mails of suspected leakers, but Congress has forbidden search warrants for journalists’ work product materials unless the reporter committed a crime.

A 2010 affidavit seeking the warrant — necessary, an F.B.I. agent wrote, because the analyst had deleted e-mails in his own accounts — said Mr. Rosen qualified for that exception because he violated the Espionage Act by seeking secrets to report.

No American journalist has been prosecuted for publishing classified information, and the administration insisted it has no intention of doing so. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. signed off on the warrant request.

more at link: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/us...nted=2&hp&_r=0

[sailingaway]

Related: "Obama asks Holder to investigate Holder's investigation" http://t.co/YriFdn14NW

[torchbearer]

hope the press keeps digging, if only for their own self-interest...

[mad cow]

What did Barack Milhous Obama know and when did he know it?

The mainstream press will be all over this tomorrow.

[paulbot24]

hope the press keeps digging, if only for their own self-interest...

No kidding. I don't mind knowing their narcissistic motivations if the corruption they unearth finally sees the light of day. Hell, they don't even need to investigate anything if they don't feel like it. If they really want to expose corruption all they have to do is call up Sibel Edmonds for a cup of coffee.

[surf]

hope the press keeps digging, if only for their own self-interest...

let's be honest - do you really think it is in the best interest of the press to bite the hand that feeds them?

we know how often the "news" offered up by the "press" is 90% government news-
"a gov't source says [insert Muslim name here], the third highest ranking member of al Qaeda, was killed by a drone strike in Pakistan today..." or
"city officials explained the reason for an additional 10 cent tax on cantaloupes is to fund children's ____ "

and 10% hot weather chick.

these guys are all too goddamn lazy after being spoon-fed their content for decades and don't want this to end.

[tangent4ronpaul]

let's be honest - do you really think it is in the best interest of the press to bite the hand that feeds them?

we know how often the "news" offered up by the "press" is 90% government news-
"a gov't source says [insert Muslim name here], the third highest ranking member of al Qaeda, was killed by a drone strike in Pakistan today..." or
"city officials explained the reason for an additional 10 cent tax on cantaloupes is to fund children's ____ "

and 10% hot weather chick.

these guys are all too goddamn lazy after being spoon-fed their content for decades and don't want this to end.

WHAT! - You get 10% hot weather chick???

OK, that does it - I'm moving to Redmond, WA

-t

[tangent4ronpaul]

the 11 questions
In order to begin an investigation into a leak of classified information, the Justice Department asks the agency that classified the information to answer this series of 11 questions. FRONTLINE received this document as the result of a Freedom of Information Act request.

Unauthorized Disclosure of
Classified Information
"11 Questions"

1) Give the date and identity of the article disclosing the classified information?

2) Give specific statements in the article which are considered classified and whether the data was properly classified?

3) State whether the classified data is disclosed accurately?

4) State whether the data came from a specific document and, if so, the origin of the document and the name of the individual responsible for the security of the classified data?

5) Give the extent of official dissemination of the data?

6) State whether the data has been the subject of prior official releases?

7) State whether prior clearances for the publication or release of the information was sought from proper authorities?

8) State whether the material, or portions thereof, or enough background data has been published officially or in the press to make an educated speculation on the matter possible?

9) State whether the data can be declassified for the purpose of prosecution, and, if so, the names of the person competent to testify concerning the classification.

10) State whether declassification has been decided upon prior to the publication of the release of the data?

11) What effect does the disclosure of classified material have on the national defense?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...art1/leak.html

-t

[mrsat_98]

Related: "Obama asks Holder to investigate Holder's investigation" http://t.co/YriFdn14NW

Thank god someone is going to get to the bottom of this mess.

[Warlord]

The funny thing is this puts the GOP in a tough and disingenuous position. They support a rampant persecution of dissenters and hate a free press just like Obama.

Obama is Bush's third and fourth term... dont forget. Not much has changed at the Department of Injustice.

[jmdrake]

No American journalist has been prosecuted for publishing classified information, and the administration insisted it has no intention of doing so. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. signed off on the warrant request.

There is a "story within a story" here. Post 9/11, FBI agent Cowleen Rowley wrote a scathing op-ed piece to letter to the Director of the FBI detailing how the justice department blocked her attempts to get a warrant to search the laptop of suspected terrorist Zacharias Moussoui.

http://www.aim.org/aim-report/aim-re...storic-letter/

And yet, here we have an attorney general signing off on a warrant to search emails of someone they have no intention of charging for committing a crime. Power is used selectively to intimidate and harass honest citizens and not to actually protect the American public. And yes I know this was from two different administrations. But we've seen the Obama administration "drop the ball" (yeah right) on the underwear bomber and the Boston marathon bombers. (In both cases these suspected terrorists were allowed international travel despite the fact that they should have been on the no-fly list if it was actually being used as advertised.) It's time to wake up and see what's actually going on.

[jmdrake]

The funny thing is this puts the GOP in a tough and disingenuous position. They support a rampant persecution of dissenters and hate a free press just like Obama.n

Obama is Bush's third and fourth term... dont forget. Not much has changed at the Department of Injustice.

And Bush was Clinton's third and fourth term. And Clinton was H. W's 2nd and 3rd term.

[Warlord]

And Bush was Clinton's third and fourth term. And Clinton was H. W's 2nd and 3rd term.

Yeah its been going on for a while but even Bush's spending and expansion of the State after just a few years into his term would make William Clinton blush.

So there is a clear distinction and break with the past at least when it comes to finances, spending and rampant money printing by the Federal Reserve. The US Government has always been power mad, incoherent and interventionist.