During Obama’s two terms, the Espionage Act has been used to prosecute more alleged leakers than all former presidential offices combined.
Goodale said journalists don’t seem to consider this much of a problem. “They don’t believe it,” he told CJR. “I actually have talked to two investigative reporters who are household names, and I said, ‘Do you realize what’s happening to you if this goes forward?’ And I talk, I get no response, and the subject shifts to other parts of the book.
h/t Bob
I was beginning to think that the bipartisan attacks on the 2nd Amendment would leave the other amendments lonely for attention.
You know, I don’t really have a problem with that. In fact I rather like the idea.
I used to be a U.S. Army (Reserve) intelligence officer, and it is d@mmed well about time SOMEBODY started going after leakers… I’m sorry it has to be Obama, but I’m glad he’s doing it.
The amount of leaks in D.C. is, and for years has been, nauseating. People wind up in prison, (and not the nice U.S./ Canadian style prison), tortured, and dead when these leaks happen. Our national credibility is destroyed for decades when the New York Times turns Top Secret arrangements with foreign governments into headlines. Some nit-wit bureaucratic Congressional aide wants to impress a hottie journalism major, and all of a sudden people on the other side of the planet, people that put their lives and their families lives at risk, people who trusted America, wind up getting hauled off in a black van at 3AM, never to be seen again.
Prosecuting leakers? Hell yeah! It’s called SECRET information for a fracking REASON!
Larry makes an excellent point. The fact that this gains so little attention because the Obambi is Prez is significant though – if this took place under President Bush there would be howls of outrage.