[Intelforum] Bush's Warrantless Wiretaps

[LevinMJ at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/31/2005 9:18:51 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
mike_yared at hotmail.com writes:

Mr.  Levin, according to the Project On Government Oversight  
(http://www.pogo.org/), most if not all whistleblowers (especially those  in 
the intelligence and law enforcement community) were fired or  ostracized or 
shunned.

And can you supply sources and  documentations on your statement:
"And the type of damage to the national  security I was talking about is the 
type exemplified by the well  documented case of the Sigint leak which 
resulted in the death of two  hundred forty one US Marines in Lebanon


Mr. Yared;
 
 

See the Sunday Washington Post, April 20 1986. Op-Ed by Mrs Katherine  
Graham, distinguished owner of the Post. She repeats the story she told at a  speech 
she had given earlier at the Guildhall in London. While telling how  
sometimes the press makes mistakes she recounted how, in early 1983 the Embassy  in 
Beirut was bombed, the fact that signals intelligence had provided details of  
the perpetrators, (Hezbollah) and their supporter, (Iran), was leaked to the  
press and published. Very soon that priceless intelligence source, went  
silent. She said "This undermined efforts to capture the terrorist leaders and  
eliminated a source of information about future attacks. Five months later,  
apparently the same terrorists struck again at the Marine barracks in Beirut;  241 
servicemen were killed."
Trust this answers your question.  It isn't often that we have a mea  culpa 
from the press. I call this one "the Katharine Graham lesson. 
 
Mike Levin

 
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