Here is an interesting post regarding the hyped squealing coming from the press because the Congress is about to take actions to stop the leaking of classified information for partisan/political gain. We have seen desparate lefties who have taken an oath to protect this country by protecting our secret efforts to defend ourselves from terrorist attack leak time and time again to a news media which turns out stories claiming these anti-terrorist efforts are aimed at innocent Americans. The plot line is sad and kind of a joke, except that everyleak provides Al Qaeda and its clone organizations information on how to avoid detection. Each leak has led to loss of insight into our enemies. Some leaks have caused security forces to act before they were prepared and had all the suspects identified. So now we have come to this. Check out the media’s duplicitous history on this matter:

This Bill has a history that is not told us by the editorial. As Senator Bond makes clear in his August 2, 2006 Statement introducing the Bill, it is the “legislation that was passed by the Intelligence Committee in 2000. It had been adopted by unanimous vote, but it was vetoed at the time.”

In other words, prior to 9/11, prior to the Democrats shamelessly exploiting or manufacturing any charge against the prosecution of the war in Iraq for the political purpose of bringing down Bush and reimplanting their own boot on Congress and the presidency, the U.S. Congress in November 2000 passed this Bill, only to have then President Clinton veto it the following month in one of his last official acts, after intense lobbying by the major media organizations.

The new Bush administration’s conciliatory stance toward the media, in the wake of 9/11, was reflected in then Attorney General John Ashcroft’s concurrence with the veto in October 2002. Ashcroft, recognizing that prior efforts to enforce security leaks had been slight, encouraged government agencies to increase their security safeguards.

That conciliatory stance has not been reciprocated, either by the major media or the Democrat Party or its allies within government bureaucracies, especially some within the CIA. Instead, leak after leak of national security secrets have been vaingloriously trumpeted, and selectively exposed for maximum damage, by the major media, without regard either for the stakes of a nation at war.

<0>The media squandered their position and access and used it for nepharious and partisan-personal objectives. And now their misuse of these priveleges is the reason they are being revoked and there will be an end to unofficial information flows. The media spoiled their own drinking water by fouling the pool they live off of. They only have themselves to blame.