Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[seabass]

>>>YOU quote an article from 2/13/06 for the umpteenth time
Hysterical<<<


As if this opinion by a judge is any less valid today than it was a year ago.

"But special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald found that Plame had indeed done "covert work overseas" on counterproliferation matters in the past five years, and the CIA "was making specific efforts to conceal" her identity, according to newly released portions of a judge's opinion."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11179719/site/newsweek/




>>>but for some reason with all the evidence showing the the facts that Plame was outed, NOBODY GOT INDICTED.<<<


Takes a special kind of idiot to ask the same question almost daily for a year and remain confused despite hundreds of articles having been made available to you each time you squealed. All of them explaining the same thing. Recognize this?


"The lawyers said Fitzgerald does not appear likely to charge anyone with the crime he originally set out to investigate: whether anyone in the Bush administration knowingly disclosed the identity of a CIA operative whose covert status the agency was actively trying to keep secret. That crime is difficult to prove because Fitzgerald would have to show that the officials knew Plame was a covert operative and that the CIA did not want her name revealed."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/12/AR2005101202499.html


Note that all these comments have one thing in common: None deny Plame's covert status and all point out that it's difficult to prosecute someone for disclosing it.



>>>libs defend the leakers of classified information that REALLY did harm our national security are treated as heroes- the leaks abut surveillance, financial and otherwise<<<


That REALLY did harm?

"We need more human intelligence. That means we need more protection for the methods we use to gather intelligence and more protection for our sources, particularly our human sources, people that are risking their lives for their country. Even though I'm a tranquil guy now at this stage of my life, I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors..."

George H.W. Bush, April 16, 1999, Dedication Speech, George Bush Center for Intelligence


But revealing that US intelligence agencies are intercepting communications of terror suspects is worse? Again it takes a special kind of idiot to think that terrorists never suspected their communications may have been intercepted until american liberals told them.

As for revealing the tracking of terrorist financing, more egg on your face:


"News reports disclosing the Bush administration's use of a special bank surveillance program to track terrorist financing spurred outrage in the White House and on Capitol Hill, but some specialists pointed out yesterday that the government itself has publicly discussed its stepped-up efforts to monitor terrorist finances since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

But a search of public records -- government documents posted on the Internet, congressional testimony, guidelines for bank examiners, and even an executive order President Bush signed in September 2001 -- describe how US authorities have openly sought new tools to track terrorist financing since 2001. That includes getting access to information about terrorist-linked wire transfers and other transactions, including those that travel through SWIFT.

``There have been public references to SWIFT before," said Roger Cressey, a senior White House counterterrorism official until 2003. ``The White House is overreaching when they say [The New York Times committed] a crime against the war on terror. It has been in the public domain before.

Less than two weeks after the 9/11 attacks, Bush signed an executive order calling for greater cooperation with foreign entities to monitor money that might be headed to terrorist groups. The executive order was posted on the White House website."

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/06/28/terrorist_funds_tracking_no_secret_...


Now go clean up and report back with something coherent for a change......please.