Another leak from Bush an Co..

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The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Blame Booosh!

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Originally posted by john9001
is this like when the media told the world that the US was listening to al quieda's cell phone calls?

is it anything like that?

 That was Boosh's fault too. Crocket said so..

[Donzo]

Originally posted by Thrawn
Holy crap, did you guys not read the...


"it notified the Bush administration of its secret acquisition.  It gave two senior officials access on the condition that the officials not reveal they had it until the al-Qaeda release."


I can't believe people here are implying that this wasn't the Bush administration's fault.  


I mean for Christ's sake.  You tell me a secret and ask me not to tell anyone.  If I blab it about town and it gets out, are you going to blame someone down the line, or me?  

The bobbing and weaving here is retarded.

Here's the next paragraph of the article you quote from:
Within 20 minutes, a range of intelligence agencies had begun downloading it from the company's Web site. By midafternoon that day, the video and a transcript of its audio track had been leaked from within the Bush administration to cable television news and broadcast worldwide.


So the Bush administration gets the info.  

Correctly, they pass this info on to agencies that should be looking into it.  

The article states that the Bush administration leaked it....how do they know that?  How do they know it was not someone in one of the agencies that were notifed?

What so you think the Bush administration should have done with the tip from SITE?  

-Sit on it and do nothing?

-Round up a posse of just administration officials, cook some popcorn and sit around the oval office and watch the video?

-Or maybe pass the info on to agencies that are equipped to review and advise on the info?

[SteveBailey]

Originally posted by Thrawn
Are you mental?  I don't believe everything I read on the internet, but some sources have been proven to be damn reliable.



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No, you are just a leftwing nutjob that believes EVERYTHING you read that appears to be a negative for the Bush admin.


Boosh... Boosh did it!   ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!  Boosh is resposible for your impotence... Booooosh!    Whackjob.

[JBA]

Originally posted by john9001
is this like when the media told the world that the US was listening to al quieda's cell phone calls?

is it anything like that?

or when.....The New York Times for revealing that the Treasury Department was monitoring an international database of financial wire transfers.

or when.....The New York Times revealed a National Security Agency (NSA) program that monitored international phone calls and e-mails to and from people in America suspected of being linked to terrorism...

or when.....USA Today reported that the NSA was also compiling a database of domestic calls.

[SteveBailey]

Originally posted by crockett
Why is it, you only use that excuse when it's something "you" don't want to accept?

Because I find refuse to accept some drive by blurb in the media at face value, good or bad.


Booosh!  It's Booosh's fault you are a leftt wing nutjob.  Booooosh!


Boooosh is responsible for your nocturnal emissions.  Blame Booooosh!

[EagleDNY]

Originally posted by Thrawn
Holy crap, did you guys not read the...


"it notified the Bush administration of its secret acquisition.  It gave two senior officials access on the condition that the officials not reveal they had it until the al-Qaeda release."


I can't believe people here are implying that this wasn't the Bush administration's fault.  


I mean for Christ's sake.  You tell me a secret and ask me not to tell anyone.  If I blab it about town and it gets out, are you going to blame someone down the line, or me?  

The bobbing and weaving here is retarded.

Hate to tell ya, but each "administration" consists of the entire executive branch which includes all the career gov't types from previous administrations.  A "senior official" isn't necessarily a political appointee type either.

A good example might be the head of the CIA, who would have quite properly been called a "senior administration intelligence official" when he sat on the couch in the oval office and told the president that the evidence of WMDs in Iraq was a "no-brainer" and not to worry, they'd find them once they got there.  He was a hold-over from the Clinton administration of course....

[crockett]

Originally posted by JBA
or when.....The New York Times for revealing that the Treasury Department was monitoring an international database of financial wire transfers.

or when.....The New York Times revealed a National Security Agency (NSA) program that monitored international phone calls and e-mails to and from people in America suspected of being linked to terrorism...

or when.....USA Today reported that the NSA was also compiling a database of domestic calls.

Yes and that was all later ruled unconsitutional and violation of people rights.

[crockett]

Originally posted by SteveBailey
Because I find refuse to accept some drive by blurb in the media at face value, good or bad.


Booosh!  It's Booosh's fault you are a leftt wing nutjob.  Booooosh!


Boooosh is responsible for your nocturnal emissions.  Blame Booooosh!

It's funny how you never have any issues of it being some "drive by blurb in the media" when it's something you support.

[uberhun]

It's King Georges fault! For colonizing our wonderful country with eurotrash!

[SteveBailey]

Originally posted by crockett
It's funny how you never have any issues of it being some "drive by blurb in the media" when it's something you support.

That would be funny, if it were accurate.  I do not support much of what Bush does, especially and most emphatically his awful domestic policies.

Would I approve of a leak by someone?  No, but the fact is that the left leaning media uses the term "Bush administration"  for even the lowest ranking employee in the federal govt as if to imply that Bush personally hired every last one of them.  I find this to be disingenuous.  

 Do you honestly feel that the major news outlets have an unbiased view of this POTUS, that they have had one since his swearing in?

Did you read the article?  There are several things that don't really make a lot of sense to me so I'm hesitant to take it at face value. Does the Bush admin screw up?  Oh ya. He had the majority in the house and senate for 6 years and did NOTHING, as far as I'm concerned. So while you may mistakenly label me as a Bush supporter,  this article strikes me as not credible.

[rpm]

I wonder how the lowest ranking members of the federal government got their hands on classified intel after it was given to Senior White House officials?

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Originally posted by rpm
I wonder how the lowest ranking members of the federal government got their hands on classified intel after it was given to Senior White House officials?

dan rather?

[bj229r]

Sandy Berger ---if they had the proper CLEARANCE level, someone in the dept of Energy could have accessed it

[FrodeMk3]

I think you guys missed the point of my post.

Classified material, of any kind of strategic, political, or military nature, should not be handled so cavalierly.

It should be hand-delivered, via armed courier, not posted on something as insecure as a website-unless, of course, it is deemed to be something that can be disseminated at a lower clearance level.

This, is really at heart, a failure on the part of the private intel firm.