As you may know the members of the Watcher’s Council each nominate one of his or her own posts and one non-Council post for consideration by the whole Council. The complete list of this week’s Council nominations is here. Here’s wha…

Actually, it was a crooked boob of a senator from New Jersey, one Robert Torricelli, who thought that one up.

Washington, DC: I understand that there were other reporters that were offered the same information about the CIA agent. What is keeping the other reports from divulging the source of the leak? It doesn’t seem like they would have any reason to protect the source since they didn’t run the story.

Mel Goodman: At least six journalists had the story and refused to use the name. But journalists must protect their sources or freedom of the press will wither. The lawbreakers are the administration officials and not the journalists. Novak’s transgressions are of the ethical variety and presumably he can live with what he did.

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It appears that the Washington Post has removed a transcript entirely from their website. The transcript dated October 1, 2003 was titled The White House, Congress and the CIA.

Mel Goodman, former CIA analyst and senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, discusses the misuse of intelligence and the need to protect CIA operatives.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1525597/posts

From American Thinker
Washington Post scrubs the record

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Daniel Ellsberg with hindsight looks like an early version of the VIPers- leaking secret documents to harm national security under the fiction of openness, using the media to spin one side of the story, and to politically agitate against American interests versus her enemies as a “responsible” alternative.

I fear that an entire generation of Nirvana-land adherents have taken over a large segment of our nation’s security apparatus. Moreover, they appear to have a lot of cross-fertilization with the Nirvana-landers in the MSM and academia (Strobe Talbert and Anthony Lake come to mind). This cannot be beneficial to America’s interests regarding the Cold War, the Drug War, the War On Terror, or any other conflict.

I, too, am concerned that we’re under attack from this element. The M.O. is always the same- that the U.S. is hopelessly wrong about the nature of the threat, only bold , modern thinking (supplied by the Nirvananists, of course) can correct this hopelessness, and the creation of an unaccountable agency to help implement the “solution”- which invariably entails dismantling U.S. efforts to track foreign agents, drug smuggling, terrorism, or foreign military threats.

This is more or less an admission from the left that their ideas are dead from a political or social perspective. Clearly, these ideas have been dead for quite some time from an economic perspectve. The only place leftists can thrive is in positions from which they can’t be removed- the courts, academia, and the bureaucracy. I think we’re going to see more of this internal subversion in the short term, and we can count on the left-leaning MSM to spin it in ways favoable to the Nirvananists.

You’re doing yeoman’s work in keeping us informaed, AJ- keep up the good work. Maybe we should all pool the lists of anti-Nirvava Land blogs out there so we can keep up to speed. The Strata Sphere is at the top of my list.

I’d like to see him call me a trog one more time.

And let’s not forget that big cash “truthteller” prize given to Joe by the Nation institute–what was it $25,000.00.

I’ve generated another little chart that is posted on http://www.sweetness-light.com that will help illuminate highlights of Goodfellow’s past history. The guy has never met a Marxist junta he didn’t love.

So here we have it. The suppliers of every single “manufactured” anti-Bush message for the last 5 years all in one neat little package (Bush Lied, Win Without War, Plame Gate, Cindy Sheehan, Peaceful Tomorrows, CIA secret prisons etc. ) But we’re suppose to believe that Dana Priest is a “straight” journalist, and Mary McCarthy is just a whistleblower.

By the way, Cliff Kincaid at AIM has a great piece today on Ms. Priest.

[quote]Featuring: David Albright, Robert Baer, Milt Bearden, Rand Beers, Bill Christison, Kathleen McGrath Christison, David Corn, Philip Coyle, John Dean, Patrick Eddington, Chas Freeman, Graham Fuller, Mel Goodman, John Brady Kiesling, Karen Kwiatkowski, Patrick Lang, Dr. David C. MacMichael, Ray McGovern, Scott Ritter, The Rt Honorable Clare Short, Stansfield Turner, The Honorable Henry Waxman, Thomas E. White, Joe Wilson, Colonel Mary Ann Wright, Peter Zimmerman.[/quote]http://www.offoffoff.com/film/2003/uncovered.php

In one report of the WH Correspondents Dinner the reporter expressed astonishment that the Wilsons were seen chatting with Lyndon LaRouche. But Karen Kwaitkoswki also in the movie is, I think, part of the LaRouche, anti-neo con cabal.http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14542