It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => Judiciary, Crime, & Courts => Topic started by: Libertas on January 27, 2015, 07:06:58 AM
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CIA officer free pending sentencing after conviction of leaking classified info (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/jurors-tell-judge-they-cant-agree-in-cia-leak-trial-of-jeffrey-sterling/2015/01/26/db819f78-a57c-11e4-a7c2-03d37af98440_story.html).
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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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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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!