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Santorum: Intelligence leakers “traitors”

From the AP:

PHILADELPHIA – The disruption of an alleged terrorist plot to blow up airliners shows the importance of intelligence-gathering and the need to pursue the “traitors” who recently leaked information about classified government programs, U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum said Friday.

“We are not going to defeat Islamic fascism by garrisoning America or our allies, but by having effective intelligence,” Santorum, the No. 3 Senate Republican, said during a teleconference.

“I think it is vitally important for us to understand that the compromises that have been made of American intelligence over the last few months were serious and that the traitors within the intelligence community who leaked that information, for whatever purposes, must be pursued aggressively,” Santorum said.

The Bush administration has harshly criticized reports that revealed the existence of a National Security Agency warrantless wiretap program as well as another secret government initiative that accesses a huge databank of bank records.

Santorum, a two-term Pennsylvania senator, is a close ally of the president and is locked in a difficult re-election battle with Democrat Bob Casey, the state treasurer. The latest statewide independent poll showed Casey with a slight advantage.

The programs that were the subject of leaks “were important for us to be able to confront an enemy in time of war,” Santorum said. “When people leak that kind of information, to me, that is traitorous activity.”

News organizations, he said, should take a “much more responsible approach” in dealing with such leaks.

“If leaking this information is traitorous, then publishing it is also complicit with that activity,” Santorum said

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So…can anyone explain what is holding the Bush Administration back from initiating a full-scale investigation of the enemies in our midst? If we’re all just “playing politics” here, now would be the best time to revisit this government bureaucrat/MSM plot, no?

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Posted by G. Fortunato on August 12, 2006 9:37 am

» Filed Under Border Control/Homeland Security, News, War On Terror

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3 Responses to “Santorum: Intelligence leakers “traitors””

  1. kerwin_brown on August 13th, 2006 4:19 am

    The U.S. Constitution gives us a judicial check on the executive branch and I see no reason to remove that check. This is one place I agree with liberals and libertarians as I do not want to give anyone a blank check to violate the rights of Americans even for my security. It is not that hard to get a warrant especially when you can get it up three days after the search.

  2. mattm on August 13th, 2006 6:58 pm

    I’m glad to hear this. Now all I want to see is the suspects involved, from the paprers who printed it to the officails who leaked it arrested.

  3. kerwin_brown on August 14th, 2006 7:33 am

    mattm,

    I would go with a trial that had due process of law involved. If there action in leaking the information is deemed justified then they should be exonerated. If it is not deemed justified then they should suffer the consequences. That is the risk you take when you blow whistles.

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