Shut Your Mouth ... or Else

They [Steven Rosen and Kenity Weissman] had learned the alleged secrets in meetings with high-level government officials, including then national security adviser and now secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice. If the National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice had disclosed this information to Rosen and Weissman and if the information was indeed classified, the it is Condoleezza Rice who should be facing charges of giving confidential national security information to agents of a foreign power. So why have charges not been filed against her?
From the article: ???Addington refused to provide Leonard's aides with access, claiming that the vice president's office was not covered by the executive order because, technically speaking, Cheney was not part of the executive branch.??? I am amazed that Cheney and Addington were allowed to get away with this. Article 2, Section 1 ??? The Executive Branch clearly states ???The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold hs Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice-President chosen for the sama Term, be elected as follows: ....??? So the Office if Vice-President of the United States is defined in Article 2, not Article 1 ??? The Legislative Branch!!! I guess it is difficult for Cheney and his legal staff to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States if they don???t understand it.

If the alleged ethics issue is presented to the judge and the judge issues a determination that Leonard should teastify, then he is pretty much off the hook. If he were to be told that he cannot teastify, then the defense could make a reasonable motion for dismissal because critical evidence (Leonard's expert teastimony) is being withheld and is preventing the defendants from a fair trial.

Regardless, Rice should be charged with a national security leak of confidential information to a foreign power. She can then deal with her own trial for a year or so.

To "texas to da bone": You really need to stay off blogs where your obvious ignorance and lack of education stands out like sore thumb. And if any information has already been published by the media or is otherwise available to the general public, it is no longer considered a state secret. Guess they never got to american history or political science in the last grade you completed, 4th I'm guessing.

I want my Father's America back. I really miss it.

Are Republicans at all phased by this conduct? Vice-President not part of the executive branch? Are you kidding? When will America wake up and see that the hypocrytes touting their "guns, God, gays" credentials are a bunch of crooks who place themselves above the law. I suppose the indoctrination of the Department of Justice through hiring good, obedient neocons despite being underqualified has paid off for those that cling to power. Dispicable. I can't wait the floodgates open after this next election, when government employees start talking about the corruption and partisan pressure they faced while Bush was our ruler. Yes, there have been a few (Richard Clark and Buch's Deputy Press Sec.) but we will likely see more after he is forced to relinquish power in Jan, 2009.

If those in power must do everything in secret, then they have no accountability and all liberty is at risk. Why bother having a Constitution when the President can ignore it at will. We may as well have a dictator if the President continues to abuse his powers.

There are state secreats that should not be disclosed. No Government acting totaly "transparen" would last a YEAR. Silly Silly Boy.

If our government is not transparent in its actions; doesn't conduct business in the bright light of day; and presses attacks on those who disagree with it; then, we have lost the protections of democracy. Bush and Cheney should be in prison, not in office!