Joe Lieberman: New York Times Should Be Investigated For Publishing WikiLeaks Cables (VIDEO)

Senator Joe Lieberman said that the New York Times may have committed a crime by accepting and publishing the State Department cables from WikiLeaks, and should be investigated for potential violations of the Espionage Act.

Speaking on Fox News on Tuesday, Lieberman told anchor Jenna Lee that WikiLeaks and its leader, Julian Assange, had committed the biggest violation of the Espionage Act in American history.

"Are other media outlets that have posted what WikiLeaks has put out there also culpable in this and could be charged with something?" Lee asked.

Lieberman responded that the question raised sensitive issues, because "it gets into America's First Amendment." But he said that, since WikiLeaks had certainly violated the Espionage Act, it was a real question whether the Times had also done so by accepting it.

"I'm not here to make a final judgment on that, but to me the New York Times has committed at least an act of bad citizenship," he said. "Whether they've committed a crime, I think that bears a very intensive inquiry by the Justice Department."

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[escobar]

10:03 PM on 01/11/2011

Liberman is awfully selective.
Why not investigate Dyna Corp or Halibutron for contract fraud
in Iraq ?
Crush the newspaper, good idea. Worked in the 30's to the
disadvantage of his ancestors. Now he speaks from power, so it is different.

[HTM]

02:35 PM on 12/12/2010

First of all what planet does Joe Lieberman live on by claiming the New York Times had received illegal documents, damaging political information of corruption, the illegal activity of American dignitaries and diplomats. Personally there is something wrong when our government uses scare tactics and unchecked power to deny citizens and eyewitness news outlets to be our pro-advocacy while we sleep and work hard to maintain our civil liberties and to have trust in our government and leaders to use accountability when presenting us at home and abroad without bring shame on the nation. Now Washington DC is considering pressing charges against media outlets, led by the power hungry Senators Joe Lieberman who has already short changed Americans with the implementation of Homeland security. The political elite of Washington DC want to finish stripping the American people Constitutional Rights expression and freedoms using underhandedness at the expense of National Security. For the record no one is above the law Senator if laws were broken by the political officials and governments of the world through Espionage. You and other political leaders are Public Officials and must answer to the people and the media outlets has the right to promote and shed light on the cover-up or the violation by any means necessary when our government is involved in breaking international laws to protect secrecy. Shame on you Washington DC

[SiameseTrainer]

04:31 PM on 12/09/2010

Isn't there some other country this turkey would rather live in, like Israel or someplace? Why have the Dems not taken this guy into the woodshed yet?

[dhinds]

03:44 PM on 12/09/2010

Personally, I'd prefer to have the State of Connecticut investigated for electing Joe Lieberman.

[tacevad]

11:40 AM on 12/09/2010

I have conducted my very own investigation into Joe Lieberman and I find he has a total lack of Loyalty and Character but a very high sense of self importance.

[stuckintx]

11:34 AM on 12/09/2010

Mr. Lieberman, you should really check out a columnist named Bob Novak and something he wrote called "My Role In The Valerie Plame Leak Story" where he describes how he outted her and her cover-up company Brewster Jennings. Mind you, Brewster Jennings was a cover used by more operatives than just Plame. He names Karl Rove among others of being his sources. Some 5 years later when you'd think the SOB would have some reflection after his treasonist act, he declared in an interview that he would do it again "with full speed" because liberal critics of him "tried to make such an issue out of it". Were you ASLEEP?

[vlm1948]

11:25 AM on 12/09/2010

A "bought and paid for" politician talking about good citizenship, now that's a laugh.

[tacevad]

11:41 AM on 12/09/2010

bought only until the next high bidder comes along

[blogisti]

10:58 AM on 12/09/2010

Joe would kill free speech in a minute if you let him. He is an authoritarian control freak.

[forealdough]

10:25 AM on 12/09/2010

somebody check this guy's papers.

[dzent1]

01:41 AM on 12/09/2010

For GAWD'S sake, throw this little gnome out of office.

[Rise and Fall]

12:23 AM on 12/09/2010

Protest for WikiLeaks/Freedom of Information tomorrow:

New York, NY: Thursday, December 9, 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Location: New York Times Bldg, New York, NY 10018
Event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=155203287858724

[PurpleTomato]

10:04 PM on 12/08/2010

I can't think of a vote that i regret more than the vote i cast for Joe Lieberman to be Vice-President.

[markm8128]

10:03 PM on 12/08/2010

Time to start rasing money to boot Lieberman out of office in the next election...

Who made this guy Censorship Tsar of this "free country"?

[gakabani]

09:13 AM on 12/09/2010

He is truly malefic and fascists, he a pariah among us.

[DoesNotComputer]

08:58 PM on 12/08/2010

The New York Times should be investigated for publishing leaked information?

The Bush administration should be investigated for conclusively enabling the death of thousands of American soldiers and 100,000+ Iraqis.

[DoesNotComputer]

08:55 PM on 12/08/2010

This is unbelievable.

I can't believe I'm witnessing this kind of Orwellian nonsense.

The American people really screwed up in allowing our politicians to be so emboldened.