IG finds Justice Department spied on Patel and other congressional staffer without telling courts

Maybe Wray should have just locked up the journalists until they disclosed the sources of their stories?

I bet that would have been just fine with you.


LOL

 
Trump's admin also spied on staffers, Dems, journalists, etc., behind NDOs.

Neither party should be allowed to do that.
 
LOL

Did Obama throw James Risen in jail?

You want them to be thrown in jail, don’t you? That’s the right way to handle leaks. Right?
 
Did Obama throw James Risen in jail?

You want them to be thrown in jail, don’t you? That’s the right way to handle leaks. Right?
He tried, Simp.



James Risen is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. He's also currently under subpoena, possibly facing jail time, because of his reporting.

Specifically, he's being investigated because of an article on a CIA ploy to hinder Iran's quest for a nuclear bomb that went epically sideways and may have actually helped Iran along. 60 Minutes ran a great story on him this weekend, during which they cited a well-known statistic: the Obama administration has prosecuted more national security "leakers" than all other presidencies combined, eight to three.

But the story also prompted me to look into another figure, which is less well known and potentially more dramatic. Partially because of press freedom concerns, sentencing in media leak cases has historically been relatively light. Not so under President Obama. When it comes to sending these folks to jail, the Obama administration blows every other presidency combined out of the water – by a lot.

By my count, the Obama administration has secured 526 months of prison time for national security leakers, versus only 24 months total jail time for everyone else since the American Revolution. It's important – and telling – to note that the bulk of that time is the 35 years in Fort Leavenworth handed down to Chelsea Manning.

It takes a bit of digging to find all this information. As my public service for the day, here's a rundown of every leak case, the sentence (if there was one), and its current disposition.

Pre-Obama Cases

  • Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo (1973). Famous national security whistleblowers prosecuted for releasing the Pentagon Papers. Sentence: Charges dropped after revelations that President Nixon's henchmen burglarized Ellsberg's psychoanalyst looking for dirt and tried to bribe the judge in their case with the directorship of the FBI.
  • Samuel Morison (1985). Naval analyst who sent pictures of the Soviet navy to Jane's Fighting Ships, a reference book on the world's warships. Sentence: 24 months. He was subsequently pardoned by President Clinton, despite CIA objection.
  • Larry Franklin (2005). Pentagon analyst charged with leaking Iran-related intelligence material to lobbyists for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Sentence: 10 months at a halfway house and 100 hours of community service.
Obama Cases

  • Thomas Drake (2010). NSA whistleblower. Revealed waste at the agency in connection with the Trailblazer Project. Sentence: All espionage charges were later dropped, and Drake pled guilty to a misdemeanor. He was sentenced to a year of probation. The judge called the government's conduct in the case "unconscionable."
  • Shamai Leibowitz (2010). Orthodox Jewish FBI translator, concerned about ill-considered Israeli airstrike against Iran, revealed U.S. spying against Israeli diplomats to blogger. Sentence: 20 months. Amazingly, the sentencing judge said, "I don't know what was divulged other than some documents, and how it compromised things, I have no idea."
  • Chelsea Manning (2013). Wikileaks. Sentence: 420 months (35 years). As noted, it's heaviest sentence in history, almost twenty times the pre-Obama record.
  • John Kiriakou (2013). CIA analyst and case officer. Kiriakou was the whistleblower who revealed the secret CIA torture program. Sentence: 30 months.
  • Donald Sachtleben (2013). FBI agent and contractor alleged to have disclosed to the Associated Press details of a disrupted Yemen-based bomb plot. The wildly overbroad subpoena the Justice Department sent to the AP as a follow-up made national headlines. Sentence: 43 months. Longest ever imposed in civilian court.
  • Stephen Kim (2014). State Department advisor who disclosed information about North Korea's plans to test a nuclear bomb to a Fox News reporter. The reporter was investigated by the FBI as a possible "co-conspirator" for mere act of newsgathering. Sentence: 13 months.
  • Jeffrey Sterling (case pending). Alleged to have been James Risen's source.
  • Edward Snowden (case pending). Revealed secret law allowing wholesale, covert surveillance of innocent people by the NSA. Charges against him carry decades in prison.
Wow. That's a long list. And as we're now waging a new war we are told could take years, it's a list that will only get longer.

 
The Trump DoJ got records of two members of Congress. Both Democrats. 43 staffers. 21 were Democratic, 20 were Republican. 2 were not partisan.

Of course none of the brain dead MAGAs bothered to read the IG report and their shitty media failed to note all the important details because they had a narrative to support.
 
Apparently you don’t know what you voted for.


Typical low information voters. Just the worst.
LMAO, no bias at CBS. LMAO, you must be rolling, you couldn't post this with a straight face. CBS, and their 60 Minutes and Meet the Press are the least credible, most biased phony news shows on television. You managed to live up to your name again, Moron er. Record time.
 
Six years, my ass! I want these investigations conducted, concluded, trials, convictions and sentencing done in TWO. We've wasted enough time and $$$$$ on all of this BS. Time to get down to the business of running the country (what they are paid to do) not selling it out to our enemies as the democrat seem bent on doing.
You mad, MAGA homeboy? Let us know when a crime was committed by someone other then your orange subhuman bloat god & you'll get your trial.

In the meantime, go back to your knitting.
 
I think the Federal SOL is 6 years on felonies, so it's passed.

I'm reading the IG report, it appears that the DOJ was looking for the source of the leaks to the press about the Carter Page warrants.

Bypassing the DOJ procedures because they were trying to cover their asses- they knew the FISA warrants were illegally procured.

This all took place 3 years before Durham issued his report...
 
I think the Federal SOL is 6 years on felonies, so it's passed.

I'm reading the IG report, it appears that the DOJ was looking for the source of the leaks to the press about the Carter Page warrants.

Bypassing the DOJ procedures because they were trying to cover their asses- they knew the FISA warrants were illegally procured.

This all took place 3 years before Durham issued his report...
Nope. There's no SOL on civil rights violations.
 
You guys keep digging a bigger hole. Time to jump in.

Trump's DOJ secretly obtained phone and text message logs of 43 congressional staffers and 2 members of Congress​


Keep repeatedly posting your but, but -

You are dead to every thinking person.
 
CULT FUCKS BE LIKE:

When the DOJ goes after the left for it is FASCISM WITCH HUNT ENEMIES LIST.

When the DOJ goes after the right it is NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW!
 

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