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Wetzelbill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-10-07 04:49 PM
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GOP leaders accused of leaking state secrets..
Are GOP Leaders Leaking State Secrets?

For the second time in as many weeks, a senior House Republican may have divulged classified information in the media.

In an opinion article published in the New York Post Thursday, Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., reported the top-secret budget for human spying had decreased -- the type of detail normally kept under wraps for national security reasons.

"The 2008 Intelligence Authorization bill cut human-intelligence programs," Hoekstra wrote in the piece, in which he also criticized "leaks to the news media."

Formerly the chairman of the intelligence committee, Hoekstra is now its highest ranking Republican. In its recent budget authorizations, that committee kept from public view all figures and most discussion of spending on such classified items as human spying. Hoekstra's apparent slip was first noted on the liberal Web site, Raw Story

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radfringe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-10-07 05:12 PM
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1. they had a note from cheney
saying it was ok to leak.. it's like a hall pass when you were in school that gave you permission to use the bathroom to take a leak
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Wetzelbill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-10-07 06:01 PM
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4. Yeah, it simply said: "Fuck Off"
They all know what that means.
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-10-07 05:23 PM
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2. Human spying?
Is this spying by humans or spying on humans?
Human spying as opposed to... What?
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Wetzelbill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-10-07 05:59 PM
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3. there are a lot of blenders out there looking to do harm on Mercka
Haven't you seen Maximum Overdrive? :)
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