hypocrite-in-chief....

[mike_c]

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/8567 one month ago on Mon, 2006-03-06.

White House Trains Efforts on Media Leaks

By Dan Eggen, Washington Post

The Bush administration, seeking to limit leaks of classified information, has launched initiatives targeting journalists and their possible government sources. The efforts include several FBI probes, a polygraph investigation inside the CIA and a warning from the Justice Department that reporters could be prosecuted under espionage laws.

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Some media watchers, lawyers and editors say that, taken together, the incidents represent perhaps the most extensive and overt campaign against leaks in a generation, and that they have worsened the already-tense relationship between mainstream news organizations and the White House.

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President Bush has called the NSA leak "a shameful act" that was "helping the enemy," and said in December that he was hopeful the Justice Department would conduct a full investigation into the disclosure.

"We need to protect the right to free speech and the First Amendment, and the president is doing that," said White House spokesman Trent Duffy. "But at the same time we do need to protect classified information which helps fight the war on terror."

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This is the part that the MSM is going to be all over, although the cable propaganda outlets will probably lowball it as long as they can. If the press has any pride left, they should be tenacious on this angle. Bush is the hypocrite-in-chief. The whole time he was questioning the patriotism and honor of the press for publishing info about the secret prison system, Abu-Ghraib, and the NSA domestic surveilance scandal, he was playing the leak game from the other end, and his leaks were demonstrably detrimental to national security.

[joemurphy]

1. The press doesn't have any pride left. n/t