National Science Foundation to help CIA spy on chatrooms

[Lan Barnes]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 03:34:57PM -0800, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
> Lan Barnes wrote:
> >On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 06:48:56AM -0800, Lewis Wolfgang wrote:
> >
> >>Jaron Omega wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, JD Runyan wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Lewis Wolfgang wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>I just hope that I'm lucky enough to have MY information misused.
> >>>>>There are Federal laws (Privacy Act) that hold not only an agency
> >>>>>responsible, but the individual employee can be help personally
> >>>>>liable.  Ka-Ching!
> >>>>
> >>>>I don't know if Ka-Ching is the best way to phrase the amount of money
> >>>>you will get suing your average GS employee.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>And what happens if the task the GS employee was directly
> >>>related to a classified project?
> >>
> >>If an employee leaked clasified information then she's got other
> >>problems too.
> >>
> >
> >
> >Unless it's outing a Bush critic's CIA wife to Bob Novak, and then it's
> >perfectly OK :-P
> 
> Doesn't this assume facts not in evidence?  Was the "leaker" ever
> identified?
> 
> Regards,
> Lew

Novak is identified. Others are being jailed for contempt in not
revealing sources. The courts have uniformly riled that a journalist
has no right to withhold sources if (1) a crime has been committed and
(2) there is no other reasonable way to get the information. Yet Novak
walks the streets.

Go figure ...

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