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Bush administration leaks
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"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism" - Thomas Jefferson
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and
never will be...
The People cannot be safe without information." -- Thomas Jefferson
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Bush administration leaks
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Bush_administration_leaks
The following is a current (?) listing of Bush administration leaks:
* Laurent Murawiec ... a Pentagon leak.
* Marwat Farhan
* Valerie Plame / Valerie Plame/External Links
The headline for the March 5, 2003, edition of the Hill News reads "Shays
queries Woodward leaks". Jonathan E. Kaplan writes: "Rep. Chris Shays (R-Conn.),
who chairs a subcommittee that oversees national security policy, has inquired
whether Bush administration officials passed classified information to
journalist Bob Woodward for Bush at War, his latest best-selling book."
"Morton H. Halperin, an advisor to several presidents on national security
issues, said: 'Senior officials have always declassified information to
advance a president’s agenda or even doing it to advance their own agenda.'
"But, in two previous cases where it was alleged Congress leaked classified
information, the Bush administration threatened to withhold information and
launched an FBI probe in an attempt to find the leakers.
"In June 2002, the House and Senate intelligence committees investigating the
September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks allegedly disclosed information that the
National Security Agency had intercepted communications a day earlier warning
of a terrorist plot.
"The FBI investigated the source of the leaks, going so far as to asking
senators to take lie-detector tests.
"Concerned about leaks in the aftermath of the attacks, Bush restricted
classified and sensitive information to eight key lawmakers.
"Woodward wrote that the research for his book, 'includes contemporaneous
notes taken during 50 National Security Council and other meetings…[and I
have] attributed thoughts, conclusions, and feelings to the participants.
These come either from the person himself, a colleague…or the written
record—both classified and unclassified.'
"As Charles Tiefer, a law professor at the University of Baltimore and former
counsel on the House side of the joint committee that investigated the
Iran-Contra scandal, sees it, there are two categories of leaked information.
"If classified material is leaked with authorization from such administration
principals as the president or Secretary of State, 'then the officials
releasing the classified info will contend that their authorization from above
prevents charging them with a breach of security,' Tiefer told The Hill.
"However, he added, that if classified documents, 'marked top-secret, secret,
and so forth, were leaked without [such top-level] authorization, then they
must answer for an improper release of classified information and possibly for
a breach of security that violates the rules.'"
And this headline is priceless:
* On October 16, 2003, Joseph L. Galloway and James Kuhnhenn reported in the
Philadelphia Inquirer that "Bush orders officials to stop the leaks. He warned
of action if anonymous sources were quoted, a senior aide said. Visiting
senators also heard a stern line."
"Concerned about the appearance of disarray and feuding within his
administration as well as growing resistance to his policies in Iraq,
President Bush - living up to his recent declaration that he is in charge -
told his top officials to "stop the leaks" to the media, or else.
"News of Bush's order leaked almost immediately."
Quotes
* "The ship of state is the only ship that leaks from the top." --Sir Humphrey
Appleby.
Other Disinfopedia Resources
* Bush administration and the Enron connection
* Bush administration/Project for the New American Century (PNAC members in
key positions in the administration)
* Bush administration scandals
* Bush doctrine
* Bush/Republican Initiatives
* Loose Cannon Pentagon
* rebranding the Bush administration
* State of the Union 2004
* Unofficial Official Secrets Act
* U.S. presidential election, 2004
External Links
* Dave Franklin, Langley Leaks, American Daily, September 21, 2001.
* Peggy Noonan, Loose Lips, Pink Slips. How President Bush made the White
House leak-proof, OpinionJournal/WallStreetJournal, January 18, 2002: "Someone
once said the White House is the only sieve that leaks from the top, but the
Bush White House is, so far, famously leak-proof. Or rather almost
leak-free....The Bush White House doesn't leak because George W. actively and
affirmatively does not want it to."
* Anthony DiFilippo, Bush's Nuclear Weapons Policy: Where the Rule of Law
Doesn't Matter, Foreign Policy In Focus, June 26, 2002: "President Bush's
announcement in December 2001 that the U.S. would unilaterally withdraw from
the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, that it had signed with the former
Soviet Union, has been viewed with much skepticism by some countries. In
January, the administration dropped a second shoe. Leaks from the
administration's Nuclear Posture Review revealed that the U.S. plan to 'cut'
the number of its nuclear weapons relied on storing rather than destroying
many of them, that underground nuclear testing in the future cannot be ruled
out, and that the preparation time to perform nuclear testing needed to be
reduced, perhaps to just months. ... Leaks from the Nuclear Posture Review
also revealed that the Bush administration had still another shoe that it was
willing to drop. The review contained language that indicated that the Bush
administration has authorized the Defense Department to develop plans for
using nuclear weapons on seven countries--five of which are nonnuclear
nations. Significantly, these five nations--Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and
North Korea--are parties to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) that
took effect in 1970."
* FBI Investigates Congressional Security Leaks, NewsMax, July 26, 2002: "The
FBI has quietly begun an investigation of national security leaks from Capitol
Hill, specifically leaks from the House and Senate Select Intelligence
committees, United Press International has learned. ... The investigation was
requested publicly by congressional leaders after blistering criticism from
the White House, but the Justice Department is not acknowledging the
operation. ... The investigation was spurred in part by anger in the Bush
administration over media reports last month that the National Security Agency
had intercepted two messages between suspected terrorists in Afghanistan on
Sept. 10: 'tomorrow is zero day' and 'the match begins tomorrow.' ... However,
the messages were not translated until Sept. 12, the day after the terror
attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that claimed nearly 3,000
lives."
* Roy Mark, White House Leaks New Cyber Security Plan, InternetNews, January
7, 2003: "The White House is leaking again. As has been its habit since
announcing early last year it was drafting a National Strategy to Secure
Cyberspace, the Bush Administration is again floating its proposals though the
media before actually making a public announcement. ... In its latest trial
balloon, the Associated Press is reporting an internal draft of the plan, due
to be released later this month, calls for watering the down the proposals to
secure the nation's computer networks even further by reducing the initiatives
by nearly half and eliminates an earlier version that called for the White
House to regularly consult with privacy experts from the private sector. ...
According to the AP, the new draft calls for the new Homeland Security
Department to develop plans for securing the country's networks. It also warns
that the Administration reserves the right to engage in cyber warfare."
* Jonathan E. Kaplan, Shays queries Woodward leaks, Hill News, March 5, 2003:
"Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.), who chairs a subcommittee that oversees
national security policy, has inquired whether Bush administration officials
passed classified information to journalist Bob Woodward for Bush at War, his
latest best-selling book."
* Mark Benjamin, Pentagon Papers Leaker Seeks Leaks on Iraq, UPI, March 11,
2003: "Daniel Ellsberg, who in 1971 leaked the Pentagon Papers, on Tuesday
called on government officials to leak documents to Congress and the press
showing the Bush administration is lying in building its case against Saddam
Hussein."
* Two Damning Leaks in the Last Two Days, theleftcoaster, June 24, 2003.
* Jack Shafer, Making sense of the leaks and counter-leaks in Plamegate,
Slate, October 2, 2003.
* Evan Thomas and Michael Isikoff, Secrets and Leaks, MSNBC.MSN.com, October
13, 2003: "In Washington, so-called leak investigations—formal inquiries by
the Justice Department into the publication of classified information—are like
endless replays of the movie “Casablanca”: the authorities round up the usual
suspects, nothing much happens, and life goes on. ... It’s not likely that
anyone will go to jail for outing Valerie Plame Wilson as an undercover spy
for the Central Intelligence Agency. But the leak—from unnamed “senior
administration officials,” allegedly in retribution for her husband’s accusing
the Bushies of “twisting” intelligence—has stirred a scandal that casts light
on a dark side of the Bush administration. All presidents deplore leaks in the
strongest terms, and then wink at (or, in some cases, personally authorize)
leaks that serve their purposes. No one is accusing George W. Bush of
reincarnating Richard M. Nixon. Still, this administration has been
particularly secretive and manipulative, at once condemning and seeking to
stop “unauthorized disclosures” while putting out its own selective version of
the truth."
* Jim Lobe, The truth leaks out, Asia Times, November 21, 2003: "This week's
blockbuster leak of a secret memorandum from a senior Pentagon official to the
US Senate Intelligence Committee has spurred speculation that neoconservative
hawks in the Bush administration are on the defensive and growing more
desperate. ... Both the committee and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
have asked the Justice Department to launch an investigation of the leak,
which took the form of an article published Monday by the influential
neo-conservative journal, The Weekly Standard."
* Those Damned Leaks, Anger Management Course, January 8, 2004.
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