Democrat/Media Hypocrisy on the Bush Leaks
[author:Fred Martinez Public time:Apr 23, 2006] |
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Democrat/Media Hypocrisy on the Bush Leaks
The Democrat/media hypocrisy on the Bush leaks is almost laughable.
According to a November 2, 2000 AP article Nancy Pelosi joined the nation's largest news organizations in opposing and getting Bill Clinton to veto a bill that “would criminalize all unauthorized disclosures of classified information.” Why do Pelosi and the media now want to criminalize leaks? Why didn't they want to do the same then?
The AP article “News organizations ask Clinton to veto classified leaks bill” wrote Pelosi opposed the bill because she worried that “even members of Congress could face felony charges for revealing classified information.”
Pelosi and the media want us now to believe that they are not hypocrites for being “scandalized” by the Bush leaks. I might believe the Democrats and the media are not hypocrites if they had been scandalized when:
- “Linda Tripp, whose Pentagon personnel file was illegally leaked in 1998 by a Clinton Defense Department flak to New Yorker Magazine writer Jane Mayer, who promptly splashed details of Tripp's shoplifting arrest as a teenager across its pages.”
- “Paula Jones, whose tax returns were illegally leaked in Sept. 1997 to New York Daily News columnist Lar Erik Nelson”
-“And where were our self-appointed guardians of privacy when the White House decided that the best way to discredit Clinton sexual assault accuser Kathleen Willey was to release her personal correspondence to the press."["U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth later ruled that the shabby manuever was a criminal violation of the Privacy Act. Democrats."]
-“And what about the mother of all White House privacy violations, Filegate. Over 1100 FBI files on Republicans were dispatched into the custody of bar bouncer-turned-White House security chief Craig Livingstone.”
-"’Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, inadvertently disclosed a top secret communications intercept during a [1985] television interview,’ reported the San Diego Union-Tribune in a 1987 editorial criticizing Congress' penchant for partisan leaks."["‘The intercept, apparently of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's telephone conversations, made possible the capture of the Arab terrorists who had hijacked the cruise ship Achille Lauro and murdered American citizens,' the paper said, adding, 'The reports cost the life of at least one Egyptian operative involved in the operation.’"]
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In a more balanced view of the situation the Washington Post editorial “Good Leaks” said ...
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