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Offline Libertas

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Remember those reporters Obama went after to cough up their sources?
« on: January 27, 2015, 07:06:58 AM »
CIA officer free pending sentencing after conviction of leaking classified info.

This whole thing just stinks to high heaven.  Why is it that I cannot shake the thought from my head that this whole thing was engineered to both leak what was leaked and to target reporters and instill a climate of fear into the media and the bureaucracy to not dick with Executive Power?

If I am wrong about this, please, someone show me where I am in error...I would really like to be proven wrong in this case, because if I am right the future looks even darker than it did a minute ago!
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Re: Remember those reporters Obama went after to cough up their sources?
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2015, 08:00:03 AM »
I've had similar thoughts about Julian Assange and Edward Snowden.

What better way to make an entire population suddenly question every public or private electronic communication, than to have "traitors" - unavailable and therefore unaccountable to our justice system - reveal that no ones private information is safe from government eyes and ears?

In hindsight the revelations of those two men was like a grand announcement: You now live under a surveillance state. I speculate that the possibility exists that that announcement came directly from our government.
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Re: Remember those reporters Obama went after to cough up their sources?
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2015, 08:27:00 AM »
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The case against Sterling was largely circumstantial — there were no recorded phone conversations or captured e-mail exchanges that show that he leaked classified information to Risen — and that required prosecutors’ to delve deeply into Sterling’s work and the details of Risen’s book.

Evidence - we don need no steeenkin evidence!
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