A High-Tech War On Leaks

nytimes.com:

It used to be that journalists had a sporting chance of protecting their sources. The best and sometimes only way to identify a leaker was to pressure the reporter or news organization that received the leak, but even subpoenas tended to be resisted. Today, advances in surveillance technology allow the government to keep a perpetual eye on those with security clearances, and give prosecutors the ability to punish officials for disclosing secrets without provoking a clash with the press.

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[cwctx]

12:58 PM on 02/15/2012

When your SF86 comes back with a security clearance approved, you directly and implicitly agree that you will NOT violate that security clearance by allowing information to "Leak" to those without clearance and need-to-know. If you violate this contract, you should be found, clearance revoked for cause and prosecuted if applicable. Of course, the Administrative Branch CEO would probably not pass a security investigation for past associations alone had there not been an automatic waiver for the president put in many years ago for a similar reason. Lead By Example.

We should expect more!

[Wurkenstiff]

12:54 PM on 02/15/2012

If hope Anonymous takes down the White House web site in retaliation of this.

[Wurkenstiff]

12:50 PM on 02/15/2012

I am STUNNED at the amount of support on display in these comments.

There is nothing Obama does that his narrow minded sycophantic following cannot somehow justify.

You know...you don't have to tell the world his fecal matter smells like roses just because you fantasize that it does.

I'm going to snap my fingers now to try to snap you all out of the hypnotic trance.

[YunekFlava]

07:20 AM on 02/15/2012

For those who have problems with this woukd you want your boss to tell your co-workers things he/she knows about you? How would you like your family telling the neighbors your family secrets? What does that say about you if you clamp down on what is being told about you? Doesn' your neighbor have the right to know what us going on in your home, to know what kind of neighbor lives in their community? How about your co-workers, shouldn't they know what kind if co-worker you are, just in case you go beserk in the workplace? Does that make you dictorial because you would like to disseminate or release information that relates to your neighbor or co-workers?

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[Wurkenstiff]

12:40 PM on 02/15/2012

You are a complete tool.

[YunekFlava]

07:01 AM on 02/15/2012

Take ' em to the bridge!

[gomezrules]

10:40 PM on 02/14/2012

'Big Brother Barry' is at it again. And the leftist sheople who carry his water will continue to defend him and make excuses for his admin. Outrage is reserved for those they oppose!

[marbiol]

09:52 PM on 02/14/2012

normally id be concerned about this. without leaks trki dick would just be a another dick; leaks about our atrcious activities inv ietnam, kuwait, iraq, somalia, and the phillipines would have been suppressed.

on the other hand, the President needs to be able to conduct domestic & foreign affairs with some sense of security. if leakers gave us more insight into the sausage making that is politics some of us---not my wife, who's from nigeria, mind you, but more of us pale-faces [sic!!] could be more likely to misconstrue Mr Obama's motives.

There are just some conditions under which leaks should be discouraged.

[gomezrules]

10:40 PM on 02/14/2012

Yeah, right. as usual, it's a crime when those you oppose do this, but when your guy does it, it's OK!

[Wurkenstiff]

12:43 PM on 02/15/2012

How can you compromise on this at all?
It is complete insanity.
"misconstru­e Mr Obama's motives" obviously you do not trust yourself to judge things at face value.
You should move to Nigeria at the soonest possible moment and take your irrational logic too.

[marbiol]

06:21 PM on 02/15/2012

i would have replied sooner but it took me a while to yank my tongue out of my cheek....

COFFEE HURTS
>
>
> I was eating lunch on the 20th of February with a friend and her 6-year-old
> granddaughter.
> She was pretty animated as she talked about school and friends and teachers.
> As I sipped my coffee, I asked her, "What day is tomorrow?"
> She said "It's President's Day!"
>
> She is a smart kid. So, I asked "What does President's Day mean?"
> Waiting for her reply with something about Washington or Lincoln etc.
> She replied, "President's Day is when President Obama steps out of the White
> House,
> and if he sees his shadow we have one more year of unemployment."
>
>
> You know, it hurts when hot coffee spurts out your nose. [stolen from a friend!!!]

[ebanks84]

07:41 PM on 02/14/2012

You cannot hide any longer. They got their eyes on you everywhere you go and on everything you do. and as long as you're not doing anything, you are fine. If you are being criminally active however, you will serve the time for the crime.

I love it :)

[mikala]

04:10 PM on 02/14/2012

For all of you intelligent people out there..............I'm trying to be nice, really. The reason that Obama has been able to take out bin Laden and the pirates among others is that he didn't allow for leaks. Now stop your whining you don't need to know everything and besides this is the most transparent Administration I have seen in my 6 decades of life.

[gomezrules]

10:39 PM on 02/14/2012

Yes, it's only an outrageous act if one of those who have an "R" assigned to their name does it! Give me a break..

[InLosAngeles]

11:16 AM on 02/14/2012

It isn't over yet. It is only being ramped up multifold. If you can't see through this administration, you truly are blind. This is a tactic that has been used in every dictatorship, but of course because it's Obama replicating this tactic, it's benevolent. lol.

The Obama campaign is today beginning a new effort to enlist and educate at least 2 million supporters for a "grassroots (astroturf) communications (spy) team" they're calling the Truth Team.

Anyone official who names anything the "Truth Team" is power mad. Two million sets of eyes looking for dissidents. Hope and Change?

[mikala]

04:06 PM on 02/14/2012

You should dig a hole, crawl in and cover it up since you're your so afraid. I really feel sorry for people like you with that imagination i am surprised you have survived so long.

[InLosAngeles]

04:51 PM on 02/14/2012

lol. Useful idiot. Good luck w/ that.

[Iris Silver]

02:07 AM on 02/14/2012

You may not agree with him, but he is enforcing the law. It's not his fault that people do illegal things in public, on email or on cell phones. Wake up. All that convenience comes at a price and cameras are everywhere. A few hard numbers would have been nice in the article. The writer says this administration is prosecuting more cases than every other administration combined. Call me a cynic, but I'd like to see a link to his source for that. And GWB's former staff had nothing pleasant to say about this administration? I am so surprised.

[Capt X]

11:02 PM on 02/13/2012

Funny.

When Bradley Manning was jailed, there was outrage, because he was leaking mostly info from GWB's presidency.

Now that it's been reported that Obama has done this more than any other president, and it's leaks from HIS administration...

Silence. Zero outrage...very few comments...and the story sinks down the page.

Incredible, STAGGERING hypocrisy on the part of the Obama apologists here at HP.

Obama's war on the 1st Amendment rages on...

[Roland19]

06:31 AM on 02/14/2012

Well, you know, that whole first Amendment thing is more of a guideline than anything else. Just ask the oligarchy. They'll be happy to explain it to you, I'm sure.

[eumenides]

12:46 PM on 02/14/2012

if the lickspittles stopped apologizing for him... now that would be staggering

[Tmboy]

09:53 PM on 02/13/2012

Classified information is classified for a REASON. The hoops you have to jump through to get a clearance. The access you have once you get that clearance and you want to "leak"?

Journalist are acting as if this is an attack on them. Its not. No one is putting the squeeze on you to reveal sources. But if you're going to reveal classified information that the govt has given you access to WITH THE UNDERSTANDING that if you reveal said info YOU WILL BE PROSECUTED.

Jounalist are just mad because now they may actually have to INVESTIGATE. Gasssssp!!!

[ZGuile]

02:36 PM on 02/13/2012

The title and subject of this article are somewhat misleading. Obama doesn't care if National Security Information (weapons technology, Hi-tech intellegence gathering techniques, Contingency Plans, etc.) is leaked. He cares if his administration's plans for future legislation and executive orders is leaked to the press. That's his real concern, and why the pants-down crowd doesn't like his closed-door policy.

[mikala]

03:05 PM on 02/13/2012

What a moronic statement.

[Tmboy]

09:47 PM on 02/13/2012

he is prosecuting the leaking of CLASSIFIED information. Exec orders and legislation plans are not classified

[gsx99limited]

02:32 PM on 02/13/2012

AboutContactArchivesRSSColumnsPhotos Michelle Malkin Perfect: Obama Accepts Transparency Award in Closed Press Ceremony

By Doug Powers • March 30, 2011 10:49 PM **Written by Doug Powers


If anything, the Obama administration has a consistent knack for making me feel like I’m at a meeting of the Endangered Elephant Awareness Club while being served pachyderm-popper appetizers on an ivory plate.

From Politico:

President Obama finally and quietly accepted his “transparency” award from the open government community this week — in a closed, undisclosed meeting at the White House on Monday.

The secret presentation happened almost two weeks after the White House inexplicably postponed the ceremony, which was expected to be open to the press pool.

This time, Obama met quietly in the Oval Office with Gary Bass of OMB Watch, Tom Blanton of the National Security Archive, Danielle Brian of the Project on Government Oversight, Lucy Dalglish of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and Patrice McDermott of OpenTheGovernment.org, without disclosing the meeting on his public schedule or letting photographers or print reporters into the room.
The AP would have been invited to the transparency award ceremony, but they recently reported about how the administration lacks transparency, and as such maybe they’re unworthy of such openness.

Hopefully the president shares the award with his VP, who is also no stranger to this kind of transparency.

[eumenides]

12:50 PM on 02/14/2012

well they are transparent to the extent that we see through everything they do