"The aide was identified by other congressional officials as Larry Hanauer. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of a pending investigation into the leak..."

I love it! The anonymous source leaking the leaker! When will it end?

The staffer was on Jane Harman's (Top dog demo on the intel committee) staff and was hired by her. Now the 'treason' is being defended by none other than SF Nan Peloshi. How many demo's knew of the treason and knew who committed the treason? Sounds like the entire demo leadership was involved if not in the actual crime, then at least in the coverup.

What other crimes is Harman under federal investigation for? How long has she been a traitor?

Time to clean house in the congress, of the democ'rat party members that are trairors who have succeeded in getting out soldiers killed on a daily basis. No mistake, no bad decision, deliberately assisting the enemy.

If the guy did it punish him to the letter of the law.

Since some of these right wing kook blog sites have tried and convicted this person, I was just wondering when the hanging is scheduled. Oh.....the proof? Um, well it was a "coincidence" that this person asked for the information several days before it was leaked.

Oh, poor me, I plumb forgot that right wing Repubs don't believe we have a Constitution. How silly of me to believe a person is innocent till proven guilty. Oh has the standard changed from beyond a reasonable doubt to proof by coincidence?

Yeah Hugh, punish him to the letter of the law. Just like they did to your pal Sandy "stuff it in my pants" Burglar. Liberal traitors don't seem to get much punishment, probably cause they're doing it for the children, or puppies, or.....

Oh Pulease Hugh, Your hypocritical cries of "guilty until proven innocent" are falling on deaf ears. All you left Wing extremist nut jobs were screaming for Roves head on a platter over the Plame Affair. You already have DeLay convicted and in jail. STFU

VW

I am wondering why certain stories aren't covered too. Like why CNN (and Wizbang!) has mentioned Harry Reid's land deal multiple times more than and Dennis Hastert's. I mean, I know Hastert covered up for a pedophile for years, but his land deal was extremely shady. It should also be covered.

As far as a leak to the NYT - I think we have to wait until charges are brought and a trial is held to determine guilt. Until then, your strategy of blaming America first is really misguided.

Harman,Pelosi,Reid,Clinton,Biden and Kerry.. This is who the libs have voted to protect America..Truly despicable!

By the way, Why the Hell is Armitage still walking around a free Man?

Daniel Ellsberg was a leaky staffer, remember the Pentagon Papers? We owe that guy a debt of thanks.

Maybe this guy is leaking information on Bush's plan to invade/attack Iran. That would be a national service; if we can stop the Iran War, any price would be worth paying.

I would think that if it were that juicy of a story, your buddies over at CNN would have it covered jp2. I think the point of the stories here at wizbang are to post stories and commentary that provide somewhat of an "equal-time" to your buddies over at CNN etc... If Hastert really does have some shady land deals i'm sure that the feds and subsequently CNN/MSNBC/ABC/CBS will be all over it, thus no reason for a fine site like Wizbang to wring their hands over it.

On the other hand, Harry Reid and many other democrats go unpunished and uninvestigated for reasons unknown, while republicans get investigated if they look funny or don't talk right.

As far as blaming america first? don't make me laugh jp2. you might want to check the people on your side of the aisle that say our troops shouldn't be terrorizing the iraqis in the dead of night, or that our troops slaughter innocents like pol-pot in the pattie fields. I think you might want to check your side of the aisle before you try to project the "blame america first" name on the right.

I saw a post, not sure if it was Wizbang or not, about how the left uses projection (says the other side does something their own side does but turns a blind eye to it when their own side does it) all the time. The double standard with the left is glaring, and i'm glad to see that fine sites like Wizbang stand up and call you lefties out on it.

Here's the silver-bullet, smoking-gun evidence that LaHood had for accusing this staffer:

"'I have no credible information to say any classified information was leaked from the committee's minority staff, but the implications of such would be dramatic,' LaHood said in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press. 'This may, in fact, be only coincidence, and simply 'look bad.' But coincidence, in this town, is rare.'"

On Fox News, he elaborated, "There are some of us on the other side who can equally play politics, and I'm not afraid to do it."

So, there you have it. The Harman staffer is guilty as charged. Case closed. Take that libs.

I'm with Hugh on this one. Punish the guy when there's actually any evidence (other than that this guy had access to the same report thousands of others did). When the accuser says that he's playing politics, it doesn't fill me with faith that the accusations are well grounded.

The truth of the matter is that this right wing administration is a failure; its policies are a failure. The right wing Congress is a failure; its policies are a failure. The war is a failure. The congress is corrupt. Bush acts, sounds and looks like he is clueless. The right is in a panic and has begun eating its own children. The kook xtian right blames the neocons, the neocons blame the xtian right, the true conservatives are disgusted at profligate spending and a national debt their great grandchildren will be paying off. Scaring the country about terrorism doesn't work. Scaring folks about gay marriage doesn't work. Phoney alerts just prior to elections doesn't work. Busting plots by goofballs who don't have bus fare much less the means to do damage doesn't work.

The news is terrible for the wingnuts. So the idea, the mere whiff of something to change the subject from failure is leapt upon like meat for rabid dogs. The panic of the realization that America has awakened and is rejecting your policies and your candidates is more than you can bear.

The answer? Convict someone today, immediately,because of a coincidence. If that doesn't sum you folks up I don't know what does.

Fine, Then why does'nt the NYT release their source for the info privately to the Homeland security department and clear His name?

Seems fair?

The leak has nothing to do with Plame(except for the NSA intelligence committee monitoring complaint), so we might as well make it news. Foley? No one knows who the original Foley was after Plame's boss. Looks like more names being replaced by same names.

Ya but, Kennedy spied for KGB or is that the other names not liking Mass or saying their from Conn?

It's great to see the same people that wanted the President/VP to resign and Rove to be cuffed and stuffed without one piece of evidence in what turned out to be a joke called the Wilson/Plame boondoggle non crime, defending Harman and Peloshi. Better look a little deeper for a federal investigation of the democ'rat top dog, Harman, on the intel committee.

I guess we'll hear for the proven traitor Hanoi John and the now accused traitor (with evidence) Swimmer Ted next. 'Leaky' Leahy will most likely keep his mouth shut.

Is this all coming out as a result of the democ'rats operatives outing people as gay that aren't gay?
Tit for Tat can ruin a lot of people, but sometimes becomes a necessary evil in politics.

Hugh

Sorry but a coincidence does not happen every other week against one party or the other! This is purposeful by someone?

America has not awakened to rejecting anything yet! The election is still a couple weeks away.

While I freely admit You leftards do not want to change the subject from Foleys non sexual sexual e-mails, The fact is this blog and many others are reporting and discussing important issues facing our country that the DRIVE BY MEDIA fail too!

I'm one of the same people that said these things over Plame? That comes as news to me. I guess it's easier to paint everyone with a broad brush rather than actually considering the evidence. I guess that's a necessary evil in Scrapiron's posting philosophy.

"Sorry but a coincidence does not happen every other week against one party or the other! This is purposeful by someone?"
Obviously, the NIE leak was intentional. The question is, have we correctly identified the guilty party. I have yet to see piece of evidence #1, but we'll see. I also agree that the accusation and specific person that the accusation was made against was politically motivated. LaHood has said exactly that.

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I, for one, care not a wit about Folet's e-mails. But I'm sure, like you, I'd like to know if the leadership covered it up. Wouldn't you? And guess what? They're actually investigating it on a bi-partisan basis. Wow, what a concept. Investigate something instead of accusing by coincidence.

Interesting you referred to the alleged leaker as "someone". So "someone" should be hung?

Read the newspapers, or even listen to Fox and you might find out just how much America is rejecting the failed policies of the right wing.

Hugh

Hugh: "How silly of me to believe a person is innocent till proven guilty."

I'm with you Hugh...he IS innocent until proven guilty. Satisfied?

But that doesn't mean you don't RESTRICT HIS ACCESS TO SECRET INFORMATION!! Harman is (her word) "OUTRAGED" that he doesn't have access pending the investigation. Outraged!!

Harman's solution...let him continue to have access for as long as it takes to charge, try and judge him. Stoooopid? Not to a Dimocrat!

Bush could have restricted Rove's access to secret information during the investigation. He didn't.

I think it's reasonable for Hanauer to be restricted, just like cops sometimes get desk duty during investigations. But let's not pretend that Republicans always do the right thing, and Dems the wrong thing.

Let's see...nope,nope,nope...no Lee codemning this one. So by my count, he's for little punks putting together BS terrorist pranks and he's for democratic leakers.

All you left Wing extremist nut jobs were screaming for Roves head on a platter over the Plame Affair.

They wanted Rove investigated, not immediately thrown in jail. I never understood why Republicans always oppose investigations of their own. If they're as innocent as they claim, then let the investigation show it, and you'd have a great argument to shut liberals up.

If they're as innocent as they claim, then let the investigation show it, and you'd have a great argument to shut liberals up.

Is that not what Patrick Fitzgerald did during the Plame investigation debacle? How many years and how many millions of dollars did that man waste?

And yet, Rove was never led out in the vaunted perp walk the left was salivating over.

So, Brian, Frogmarched out of the Whitehouse now = investigated.
You are, of course, full of shit.

Hugh "I, for one, care not a wit about Folet's e-mails. But I'm sure, like you, I'd like to know if the leadership covered it up. Wouldn't you? And guess what? They're actually investigating it on a bi-partisan basis. Wow, what a concept. Investigate something instead of accusing by coincidence."

Good!

Now, how many democrats were calling for Hastert to resign over this? I must of missed the outcome of the investigation.

God, I just love it how the Democratic appologists go into CYA mode when something like this hits the fan. During the Plame affair how many of you made statements like "Frog march his ass out of..." and other inflamatiory statements without the first shred of evidence about Rove? You hypocritical bastards need to STFU, right now. When more evidence is gathered by the FBI and further leaks come out about how they knew it was him perhaps then you'll see how ignorant your statements are now.
"We want to know who knew what and when did they learn of it."
Perhaps the Democratic leaders in the Senate have some serious explaining to do.

Nice to see that Jonathan Turley, academic lawyer to terrorists (who talks like a girl) is on the case for the alleged leaker. If he's concerned about the quality of people who join the federal government he should live and work outside the beltway. This Volvo-driving Clinton democrat is an intellectual wimp who can only make the most obvious legal arguments (like a girl). A pox on him and his camera-chasing ass.

Hugh , your such a fricken riot. You have perfectly described the democrat party. With all the democrat failures now coming to light it's no surprise the democrats are out of power and in the MINORITY. No better undisputable proof than that , right Hugh?

Proof of failure = Democrats out of POWER

= House Minority

= Senate Minority

= No Democrat getting BJ's in
oval office.

= Democrats Lying and crying
24/7

= Their buddies in the Media ,
repeating them, zero cred.

= Al Qaeda and others thanking
Democrats for doing their
dirty work.

Hey there ya go, somebody who actually agrees with you and appreciates what your doing on their behalf. OUR ENEMIES AND TERRORISTS.

We cannot expect much from folks like Lee, Hugh, Brian, muirego ... They either willfully ignorant or simply intellectually dishonest for supporting the corrupted Dem party. This one is eeriely similar to what the Dems trying to do today in aiding the terrorists and to bring down anothe Rep president (h/t: Aces at polipundit)

http://hotair.com/archives/2006/10/20/the-kennedy-kgb-letter/
There's a new book on Ronald Reagan making the rounds, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism. Its author, Paul Kengor, unearthed a sensational document from the Soviet archives. That document is a memo regarding an offer made by Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts via former Senator John Tunney, both Democrats, to the General Secretary of the Communist Party, USSR, Yuri Andropov, in 1983. The offer was to help the Soviet leadership, military and civilian, conduct a PR campaign in the United States as President Ronald Reagan sought re-election. The goal of the PR campaign would be to cast President Reagan as a warmonger, the Soviets as willing to peacefully co-exist, and thereby turn the electorate away from Reagan. It was a plan to enlist Soviet help, and use the American press, in unseating an American president.

Three cheers for LoveAmerica Immigrant. Also for those posters with sufficient brains to remember the screams for Rove to be frog marched out of the white house even he was not even 'charged' with anything and as it turned out he had did nothing wrong.
Wasn't those screams originating from DU and KOS and spread around the net by people of the same caliber as lee with a little l, Hugh, muirego, Brian and hundreds of other left wing whacko's. Now they have their whacker caught in a vise and all they can do is scream and lie.

I just read an interesting article that says that the democ'rat sweep has been swept under the rug. One more week of the truth and they'll end up short seats. Crazies like Ford and Webb are killing them.

I am shocked, shocked that the Dems populating the Intel Committee would sponsor such a thing as the NIE leak. Shocked, I tell you.

Like I'm shocked that Ted Kennedy might have tried to coordinate with Andropov's gov't. in 1983 against Reagan. Being a good Dem means first being a good hater of things American, like it's military power which protects their sorry asses.

Now we need Chairman Alcee Hastings, once the House turns over to the Dems, to start inquiries. But first, shouldn't make sure he's not still "on the take" as in his judicial career which ended in felonies?

More fuel to burn the democ'rat party's a**. Phony concern for protecting the children.

Dan at Rhiel World View has been connecting the dots in the Foley/Democratic Dirty Tricks Squad scandal, and the dots are starting to point toward ultra-leftwing sugardaddy George Soros. The anti-dirty tricks blog Stop October Surprises claims to have traced an IP representing the now expunged blog Stop Sexual Predators to the Human Rights Campaign a liberal group connected to People for the American Way, and thus to Soros (all roads are leading to Royal Oak, Michigan). This new information gibes with news accounts saying that Democratic Party operatives werre shopping the Foley story to the Press months before it broke.

The evidence is pointing toward a conspiracy within the Democratic Party and its supporters to withhold information about Mark Foley's suspected peccadilloes until it was politically expedient to release it. In other words, it was never about the "children," it was always about exploiting the children for political purposes.

Hey Scrappy:

That article you read the was the same one that says we have ETs in captivity in New Mexico?

By the way, EVERYTHING is a democratic conspiracy. Quick - look under your bed!!!

By the way, EVERYTHING is a democratic conspiracy. Quick - look under your bed!!!
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Typical cheap evasion tactic to avoid facing the truth. It is hard when you are supporting an intellectually and morally corrupt party/movement.

The democrat party of perpetual fraud is looking mighty childish and pathetic. They have become a circus of clowns and so unbelievably desparate. I think this time around some will completely lose it and will be yelling "Bonsai" as they leep of the twelve inch curb onto the black top.They'll sit up and look around and say......why am I still here? LOL, them dummies can't do anything right.