J's Cafe Nette

It was refreshing to see the British got this right and I wish our Justice department would do the same.

A civil servant and an MP’s researcher have been found guilty of breaching the Official Secrets Act.
They leaked an “extremely sensitive” memo about talks on Iraq between Tony Blair and President Bush.

What is even more troubling was that a man running for the Presidency here in the United States was on the list as a possible recipient of this information.

He also wanted it to be passed on to US presidential candidate John Kerry.

While there is no proof that Senator Kerry had any knowledge of the plan for this information to land in his hands, or that he ever received any documents relating to this conversation, the significance to a US election could be staggering.

Recognizing that information is relayed with relative ease today, comprehensive investigations are necessary to identify and prosecute those leaking for spite or political gain.

What serious action has been undertaken by the Justice Department concerning this leak or these or perhaps this.

An investigation here or there, a grand jury convened and no word on any action. Look at the Sandy Burger case. What information did he steal and destroy from the National Archives? Did the Justice department stop short of gaining a stiffer penalty for this crime in deference to a former President? We will never know.

Where is the outrage when a politician in this country travels to a known terrorist state and gives them the heads up on the Presidents Foreign Policy:

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) on the November 14, 2005 edition of “Fox Sunday” divulged “I took a trip by myself in January of 2002 to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, and I told each of the heads of state that it was my view that George Bush had already made up his mind to go to war against Iraq–that that was a predetermined set course which had taken shape shortly after 9/11.”

While I have been a supporter of AG Gonzalez, I wish he would take more aggressive action on any leak where information is deemed of a sensitive nature. Elected officials no matter what letter follows their name, private citizens and members of the press must be held accountable and pay a price for wrongdoing. It is a simple matter of trust.

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