Monday, March 7, 2011

"Despite openness pledge, President Obama pursues leakers."

King Barack the First, with the help of the Dead Elephant Party, seeks to pass an Official Secrets Act for the United States.

Of course I'm sure ATF whistleblowers will be immune, since "they are all bloodthirsty baby killers" anyway.*

* Note: It was the FBI that immolated the Davidians.

The Obama administration, which famously pledged to be the most transparent in American history, is pursuing an unexpectedly aggressive legal offensive against federal workers who leak secret information to expose wrongdoing, highlight national security threats or pursue a personal agenda.

In just over two years since President Barack Obama took office, prosecutors have filed criminal charges in five separate cases involving unauthorized distribution of classified national security information to the media. And the government is now mulling what would be the most high-profile case of them all - prosecuting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

That’s a sharp break from recent history, when the U.S. government brought such cases on three occasions in roughly 40 years.

2 comments:

aughtsix said...

So is that Bambi coming "out" in the open???

Jon III

Jazz said...

"And the government is now mulling what would be the most high-profile case of them all - prosecuting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange."

Of course, the mere technicality that Mr. Assange is not a citizen of the United States doesn't have any bearing on whether or not the current crop of clowns think it feasible to try him for treason....