Jane Harman, the ranking member of a key House committee for the Democrats, insisted on "Meet the Press with Tim Russert" that the NY Times should be prosecuted for leaking the Wiretapping program.If the press was part of the process of delivering classified information, there have to be some limits on press immunity
Tim Russert then put on his defend the press suit and talked about the prospect of whistleblowing:
Well, it's not clear it was a whistleblower. You have to prove that first
Harmon then came back and said:
If it's protected by the whistleblower statute, then it's protected," she explained. Harman then added, however, that CIA Director Porter Goss recently said that the Times' sources don't qualify under the whistleblower statute.
And in a shocking statement, she said she deplored the leak that revealed "a very valuable foreign operation."
Oh boy, guess who is going to be villified by Dr. Dean next!
Further proof, the Dems may have killed this valuable program, but they still have failed to kill GWB! Nice try, but doomed to failure, as usual....
