Sen. Lieberman suggests NY Times violated Espionage Act

[NeoConsSuck]

Source: Yahoo.com

Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman has been blasting WikiLeaks over the past week and successfully pressured Amazon.com to kick the organization's content off its servers.

Lieberman kept up the attack on Tuesday. During a Fox News interview, Lieberman claimed that WikiLeaks is responsible for the "most serious violation of the Espionage Act in our history" and should be indicted in a U.S. court. But Lieberman then suggested that news organizations that published leaked material — originally obtained by WikiLeaks — may have also violated the Espionage Act.

"I'm not here to make a final judgment on that," Lieberman said. "But to me the New York Times has committed at least an act of bad citizenship, but whether they have committed a crime, I think that bears very intensive inquiry by the Justice Department." You can watch a clip of the Lieberman interview here, via Business Insider.

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Kevin Bankston recently told Politico that "the reason the government hasn't acted to take down WikiLeaks is it knows, as does every First Amendment scholar, that would run afoul of the Supreme Court's decision in the Pentagon Papers case." In that ruling, the high court found in favor of the New York Times' publication of leaked military reports on the Vietnam War.



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Last week Huckabee practically called the NY Times traitors. LIEberman has to top him.

[madrchsod]

1. joe is an old guy who needs to retire....

[saigon68]

2. Sen. Lieberman can go fuck Himself

[NeoConsSuck]

4. I thought you would like this story

:)

[saigon68]

5. He's a Turd Floating in the Toilet Bowl Of History

[glinda]

17. Thanks! Conjures up interesting imagery. Ugggh!

[drmeow]

20. He's sharing that bowl

with John McCain!

[Initech]

7. Joe should just put an R next to his name and get it over with already.

[howaboutme]

10. And here I thought it started with an "L"

and not "L" for liberal.

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. I'd rather not.

>>>>You can watch a clip of the Lieberman interview here, via Business Insider.>>>>>>

[UpInArms]

6. "During a Fox News interview, Lieberman claimed" being the operative phrase

the unmitigated gall of this POS "i'm the Joe Lieberman" party crap needs to crawl into the hole he came out of.

I spit in his general direction

[howaboutme]

8. Something has them in a froth

What is it? Examine those in Congress who are most vocal about this.

Wikileaks has either released information already that hasn't yet been released by the media, or it will be released and is going to be extremely embarrassing or prejudicial perhaps to their favorite Wall Street banks or about some country, and that not only worries them but has them stirred up into panic mode.

[peacetalksforall]

12. Everything that comes out of Joe Lieberman is for and on behalf of Israel.

Everythig he says and does makes sense when you think Israel first.

That starting point expands to include speech for and in defense and on behalf of of AIPAC, JINSA, etc etc etc

[Hardrada]

14. He doesn't want anything leaked about Israel. There must be a lot

he wants to cover up. This was my first reaction to all this too.

[Anakin Skywalker]

9. Joey is a Scumbag!

[dballance]

11. First They Came for Wikileaks...

Watch out Washington Post and NYT. You're next.

[glinda]

18. Comcast, FCC failures on protecting access to knowledge on the internet. Here it comes!

[glinda]

19. Wiki! Release those damned documents!

[pinboy3niner]

13. Joe Lieberman is preaching about LOYALTY?

:rofl:

[shanti]

15. eh

screw off, LIEberman!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

16. who gives a fuck what joe has to say

[WhiteTara]

21. where was the outrage at the NOC exposure?

That was treasonous; this is just nerve wracking for the politcos. The world now can see everyone's dirty underwear.