NBC: Holder Personally OK'd Fox Reporter's Warrant
Thursday, 23 May 2013 10:23 PM
The warrant named Rosen a “possible co-conspirator” in violation of the Espionage Act for obtaining leaked classified information from a Pentagon source. Rosen has not been charged.
The revelation came on the same day President Barack Obama said in a speech that he had ordered Holder to review the Justice Department's standards for investigating cases that involve journalists.
"I am troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may chill the investigative journalism that holds government accountable," Obama said in the speech. "Journalists should not be at legal risk for doing their jobs."
A law enforcement official told NBC News of Holder's personal involvement on Thursday. Holder has previously said that he recused himself from the AP phone records investigation since he had been a witness in the initial probe, but no one had previously indicated Holder's role in the Rosen case.
"It was approved at the highest levels -- and I mean the highest," the law enforcement official told NBC, speaking on condition of anonymity. He told the news organization that he included Holder in that statement.
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ReplyDeleteThe FBI affidavit is available online. I suggest you read it. I did. After reading this affidavit, Holder would have been derelict in his duties if he had not signed off on it. Rosen actively participated in illegal, unauthorized disclosure of top secret national defense information. And “possible co-conspirator” is an incomplete quote. The correct quote from the affidavit reads aider, abettor, and/or co-conspirator. He was certainly an abettor, and I am sure he knew Kim's release of the information to him was illegal, or else he would not have suggested that they use different email addresses and fake names for the communication. Holder recused himself from the DOJ investigation of the leak after the FBI interviewed him as a possible source of the leak. That was also the correct action.
--David
You are sounding like something I heard when the Pentagon Papers were released. BTW, that release was supported by the Supreme Court! So your argument runs contrary to existing law.
ReplyDeleteHolder is the criminal--Fast and Furious, the Rosen issue, and who knows what else. He should be the one wearing the orange jump suit!
That is why you need to read the affidavit, Tom. The Pentagon Papers had a different TS classification ("sensitive") than the information Rosen received illegally. Rosen got information classified TS/SCI. The law violated by Kim in releasing this information is quoted and explained by the FBI affidavit. The release of the Pentagon Papers was a embarrassment to the government, but no undercover CIA agent was put at risk by that leak. That's why it is classified "sensitive" rather than "SCI". The material Kim released was top secret national defense information that exposed our undercover CIA agent who had successfully infiltrated al-Qaeda. That is why the DOJ went to great lengths to track down the source of this leak, and Mr. Rosen was involved in it up to his eyeballs. It would be nice if you would read something beside Newsmax -- such as the FBI affidavit -- to get the full picture of what was happening between Rosen and Kim.
ReplyDelete--David