I dont woner why they are not demanding an inquiry into this leak.  But I think Bush is about to snooker them.

Because if they order an inquiry all you will hear the democrats new talking points. "Bush is trying to surpress the media". You can't win with these people.

I'd love to see the leakers for this material and the earlier leaked materials get tried for treason and face the punishment they deserve.

I'm tired of having classified materials show up in places where it shouldn't, knowing that it got there because some fool has decided that they can damage the President and/or his party by doing so.  Never mind the damage to national security, and never mind the people that are put in harms way because of it, as long as it hurts Bush and stops him from getting his way, it's all good.

It'd be nice if *everyone* involved -- including the reporters, editors, publishers, etc., -- at the New York Times and in providing the times the materials could face justice for it.  The Times personnel should sit and rot in jail (preferably at Gitmo), while the leakers face a firing squad.

How long till the NY Quisling Times blames their own Inaccuracy on a Bush plot?
Bush always makes them screw up - Bush is a sneaky vermin.

the NY Quisling Times

Oooh! I love that! Very good!

I think Bush did exactly the right thing when he went ahead and declassified the pertinent "reported" parts. The NYT has now been shown to be the asses they are. They printed their obviously politically motivated story on "leaked" classified information they thought no-one else would ever see. Funny how the actual information and the NYT story don't quite match up, huh?

But I'm sure the actual facts of the report won't matter much to the loons, they'll keep right on spouting the NYT story as factual and accurate anyway.

How many times does the NYT have to post classified national security information before something is done?

it's a good thing the men who founded this country are spared your contempt for and hatred of the freedom they treasured more than even their own lives.

"The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."
--Thomas Jefferson. 1787

"Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light."
--Thomas Jefferson 1799

"[This is] a country which is afraid to read nothing, and which may be trusted with anything, so long as its reason remains unfettered by law."
--Thomas Jefferson, 1816

if you dislike core american values, there are plenty of other countries where newspapers wouldn't dare to do such things.

Are we talking about the declassified NIE, that the administration "leaked"?
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Because, Like ColGene and Bahu the only thing the NYT likes more than trying to make Bush look bad is getting to see Americans Killed (especially troops) killed doing it.

it's a good thing the men who founded this country are spared your contempt for and hatred of the freedom they treasured more than even their own lives.

Unbelievable. Not wanting newspapers with political agendas to print classified material has nothing to do with hating freedom. Nice spin you have to put on it.

Are we talking about the declassified NIE, that the administration "leaked"?

What? The administration "declassified" the document after someone leaked information.

Are we talking about the declassified NIE, that the administration "leaked"? WWW Link

Sorry but that document was only declassifed "yesterday"!

September 26, 2006 Declassified Key Judgments of the National Intelligence Estimate

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Unbelievable. Not wanting newspapers with political agendas to print classified material has nothing to do with hating freedom

jefferson (see reply#7) woulda disagreed with you.

as would have james madison who wrote the following in 1799:

Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of everything; and in no instance is this more true, than in that of the press. It has accordingly been decided by the practice of the states, that it is better to leave a few of its noxious branches to their luxuriant growth, than by pruning them away, to injure the vigour of those yielding the proper fruits. And can the wisdom of this policy be doubted by any who reflect, that to the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity, over error and oppression; who reflect, that to the same beneficent source, the United States owe much of the lights which conducted them to the rank of a free and independent nation; and which have improved their political system into a shape so auspicious to their happiness.

you're calling for the government to take action againt the press thus limiting--as jefferson, madison and their fellow freedom fighters clearly stated--the freedom for which they fought.

obviously you live in a political world in which there are only two sides--yours and not yours. freedom fighters jefferson and madison don't appear to be on your side.

do the math.

So you have no problem publishing classified national security information in a newspaper?

obviously you live in a political world in which there are only two sides--yours and not yours.

And you don't?

Are we talking about the declassified NIE, that the administration "leaked"?

The Admin cannot leak a document it declassified. Kind of a stupid statement when you understand how it works.

The Admin cannot leak a document it declassified. Kind of a stupid statement when you understand how it works.

I was obviously being sarcastic.