WorldNutDaily: Bush didn't seek wiretapping OK for fear of leaks

[sabra]

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48717

Big mouths in Congress inhibit secret-sharing
Former Defense official: Bush didn't seek wiretapping OK for fear of leaks

As the Senate Intelligence Committee continues its probe into a controversial National Security Agency eavesdropping program, a former Pentagon official says the Bush administration has found it increasingly difficult to share top-secret information with Congress out of fear it will be leaked to the press.

Jed Babbin, a one-time deputy undersecretary of defense in the administration of George H. W. Bush, told WorldNetDaily fear of congressional leaks are what prevented the current White House from pursuing legislation specifically authorizing an NSA electronic-monitoring program ordered by President Bush in the wake of the 9-11 attacks.

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Babbin told WorldNetDaily that Rockefeller – along with Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Ron Wyden D-Ore. – "is the subject of a criminal referral as a result of a leak of a very highly classified, top-secret satellite program" – a probe he believes is ongoing that was launched by the Justice Department the first week of December 2004.

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And, Babbin said, while there's no "hard evidence" to indicate Rockefeller was involved in leaking the NSA program details to the Times, he adds that sources within the intelligence community have indicated their suspicions to him, though he declined to identify them.

:rofl:

[boobooday]

1. Those anal member of congress

Always worried about laws and crap like that . . . they might tell the American people what we're doing! And you know, Alberto says the terrorists sometimes "forget" that we're hunting them down, "dead or alive!"

:rofl:

[sabra]

2. especially can't trust those leaky Democrats...

oh wait who leaked in the CIA leak case... and how about the CIA secret prisons?

[Patchuli]

3. Sounds like bullcrap to me

and an excuse to break the law! The big mouths are right in the White House anyway. What the hell do they think leaking Plame's name was but a security violation, among other things!!!

SHUT UP KARL ROVE!! Hurry UP Fitzgerald!