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This is great:
Justice Department Opens NSA Spy Leak Probe
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department has opened an investigation into the leak of information to the media about a domestic eavesdropping program run by the National Security Agency, senior Justice Department officials confirmed Friday.
People leaking state secrets to the media need to be identified and punished.
Hillary Clinton Blasts Bush 'Spy' Program:
2008 presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has finally broken her silence on the Bush administration National Security Agency program that conducts surveillance on suspected terrorists based in the U.S. - saying that she opposes spying on "Americans."
Hillary evidently wants to see if she can get the terrorist vote. She is offended by any effort to encroach on the civil rights of people who want to kill us. She takes a high moral stance on this subject:
She also observed that "the values that made America in the 20th century not just the economic leader of the world, but the moral leader of the world are under attack today."
Considering the danger terrorists present to all Americans, Hillary's statement on this is not distinguishable from madness.
Michael Scheuer, who ran the CIA's Bin Laden unit from 1996 to 1999, states that secret CIA prisons on foreign soil were initiated under Bill Clinton -- not, as the Washington Post had claimed, under GWB.
Ex-CIA Big: Bill Clinton Authorized Extralegal Interrogations
The man who ran the Central Intelligence Agency's Bin Laden desk during the 1990s is accusing President Clinton of giving the CIA carte blanche to circumvent U.S. law and interrogate terrorist suspects in any way the agency saw fit - a directive that led to the establishment of secret CIA prisons on foreign soil.
"We asked the president what we should do with the people we capture," recalled Michael Scheuer, who headed up the agency's Bin Laden unit from 1996 to 1999, in an interview Wednesday with the German newsmagazine Die Zeit.
Scheuer said Clinton replied: "That's up to you."
According to an Agence France Press summary of the Die Zeit interview, Scheuer explained that the Clinton administration "had been looking in the mid-1990s for a way to combat the terrorist threat and circumvent the cumbersome US legal system."
The top Bin Laden hunter recalled that the extralegal directive came after "President Clinton, his national security advisor Sandy Berger and his terrorism advisor Richard Clark ordered the CIA in the autumn of 1995 to destroy Al-Qaeda."
It's notable that Clinton said, "That's up to you," -- making sure that he could blame anything that was actually done on somebody else.
It's also notable that Clinton found the US legal system "cumbersome" in attempts to fight terrorists. Of course it is. The US legal system is designed to protect the accused as much as possible. For the US government to try that on an organized group that's trying to kill Americans, would greatly increase the danger they present to the American people.
