National Science Foundation to help CIA spy on chatrooms

[Lew Wolfgang]

Lan Barnes wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 03:34:57PM -0800, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
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>>Lan Barnes wrote:
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>>>On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 06:48:56AM -0800, Lewis Wolfgang wrote:
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>>>>Jaron Omega wrote:
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>>>>>On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, JD Runyan wrote:
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>>>>>>Lewis Wolfgang wrote:
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>>>>>>>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 ...

Novak wasn't the "leaker", he was just the "reporter".  The leaker
could be punished for the leak, the reporter might be punished for
not revealing his sources, not for the actual leak.

R,
l