DOJ likely opening criminal investigation into Greenwald's source

[Vinnie From Indy]

President Barack Obama's administration is likely to open a criminal investigation into the leaking of highly classified documents that revealed the secret surveillance of Americans' telephone and email traffic, U.S. officials said on Friday.

The law enforcement and security officials, who were not authorized to speak publicly, said the agencies that normally conduct such investigations, including the FBI and Justice Department, were expecting a probe into the leaks to a British and an American newspaper.

Such investigations typically begin after an agency that believes its secrets have been leaked without authorization files a complaint with the Justice Department.

It was unclear on Friday whether a complaint had been submitted by the publicity-shy National Security Agency, which was most directly involved in the collection of trillions of telephone and email communications.

However, one U.S. official with knowledge of the situation said that given the extent and sensitivity of the recent leaks, federal law may compel officials to open an investigation.
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More at:http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/08/us-usa-security-leaks-idUSBRE95700K20130608

[morningfog]

1. For an Administration that touts transparency, they sure are secretive.

[okaawhatever]

17. Ommm...you know about it, right? Seems pretty transparent to me. nt

[Gregorian]

2. Wow. Pretty soon we're all going to be Bradley Manning.

[okaawhatever]

18. We all are? I'm not planning on betraying my oath and doing something I know is illegal. Are you? nt

[graham4anything]

3. Good for the admin.

[Enrique]

4. is it a crime to leak old news?

because I hear that's all it is. Further, Greenwald made it up.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. They will need new talking points

[MineralMan]

6. I'd start with the membership of the Intelligence committees

in Congress, and then spread out to the staff of those on the committees.

They oversee this stuff, and would have had a copy of the court order. They're cleared for Top Secret documents, but don't really respect the classifications and leave shit lying around. I'd specifically look at members with Libertarian leanings, since Greenwald is substantially a libertarian.

That's where I'd look.

[whatchamacallit]

8. Is that what you would do

Mr. Why-I-didn't-work-for-the-NSA?

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. How ironic that this story was leaked.

"law enforcement and security officials, who were not authorized to speak publicly, said..."

[gulliver]

9. A no talent numbnuts like Greenwald...

...probably has dirty sources. We're gonna find out the leaker is a big Republican supporter of both spying and Greenwald.

[whatchamacallit]

10. Certainly not the kind of talent required

to write a like post that. Congratulations.

[gulliver]

12. Your second edit and still not correctly grammic

I take it you're trying to insult me tho. No need to edit it a third time. I get your what say trying to.

[whatchamacallit]

13. Haha, iPhone karma

You win this one lol.

[burnodo]

16. what if we find out it's a Democrat?

[okaawhatever]

19. Do the crime, do the time.... nt

[burnodo]

21. not really a response

based on my response to the above post

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. But..wait..he told the people that they are being spied on to gather harmless information?

Which leads to a rather obvious question: If the info gathered is so harmless, why is it being gathered and why is the gathering of it secret?

[sabrina 1]

14. Wait, I thought this was old news and everyone knew about it anyhow??

It's hard to keep up with all the different excuses these days.

Now I feel much safer, they are going after another Whistle Blower.

Still waiting for the DOJ to go after someone, anyone, even one of those who actually caused harm to this country. Like just one Wall St. Criminal or one War Criminal.

But I don't get my hopes up much anymore, however it would be a nice surprise, someday, to see just one major criminal indicted, tried and convicted. At the very least it would help to deter other criminals from collapsing the economy again and harming so many millions of people.

[Junkdrawer]

15. Yes, but does he use condoms? And does he flush, even if it's yellow?

Enquiring minds want to know.

[DevonRex]

20. Good. It's a TS/SI document. S/he knew the consequences before s/he did it.

There is no defense.