US could prosecute reporters for leaks: Gonzales

Have you all seen this?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060521/pl_n m/security_leaks_gonzalez_dc_1

 Valerie... who?  Oh but they.. someone... outed OUR uber secret DOMESTIC Spying!  How dare they!   1984 here we come!  Oh how I long to be like the old Soviet Empire!

GGGRRRR!!!!

   Sun May 21, 1:20 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The federal government appears to have the authority to prosecute journalists or newspapers for publishing classified information, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said on Sunday. The Justice Department is investigating who disclosed the government's secret domestic surveillance program to The New York Times, which broke the story in December.

More here:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060521/pl_n m/security_leaks_gonzalez_dc_1



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Re: US could prosecute reporters for leaks (3.00 / 1)

This is not consistent with the land of the free and the home of the brave, but a paranoid, repressive, restrictive country on the path to abandoning liberties that have come to make America the very beacon to the world for which our terrorist enemies presumably hate us.  America, speak up. not here, but to Congres, all of them. and to the media.

the media reports on what is a flagrantly unconstitutional usurpation of unchecked power in violation of the separations of powers clauses of our constitution, and in flagrant violation of an express consitutional prohibition on the activity
http://www.pressthenews.com/wt3.htm

and now, instead of this being properly addressed by Congress, the attorney general wants to prosecute members of the media?

It is also the media's own fault,
http://www.pressthenews.com/mtpleaks.htm                  
but it is to the detrminent of America, and anathema to American and constitutional values and principles.


by Carter on Sun May 21, 2006 at 10:16:15 PM EST


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