"Two CIA secret prisons were operating in Eastern Europe until last month when they were shut down following Human Rights Watch reports of their existence in Poland and Romania.If what ABC News says is true, the CIA employees are traitor-spies; and the news organization is guilty of accessory to the commission of espionage-related crimes under the United States code. The specific code most applicable to my allegation is US Code, Title 18, Part I, Chapter 37, Section 793 which is excerpted as follows:
Current and former CIA officers speaking to ABC News on the condition of confidentiality say the United States scrambled to get all the suspects off European soil before Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived there today. The officers say 11 top al Qaeda suspects have now been moved to a new CIA facility in the North African desert."
CIA officials asked ABC News not the name the specific countries where the prisons were located, citing security concerns. [Emphasis mine. Note: the article purposely says the CIA boys asked ABC not to name the countries, which implies to the reader that ABC News now knows which countries the "new" prisons are in.]
Some of the more astute legal-beagles out there will split hairs with me over whether or not there was an intent to harm the nation by either the CIA employees or ABC, however, espionage law was previously used successfully in a Fourth Estate-related case to convict Samuel L. Morison in 1985. Morison, a civilian employee of the Navy, sent "secret" spy photos to Jane's Defense Weekly, a publication, not a foreign power. Additionally, CIA employees sign a "non-disclosure agreement" (NDA) forbidding them from communicating the same type of information they reportedly did. Breach of the NDA alone is punishable by 10 years and/or a fine.§ 793. Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information
(a) Whoever, for the purpose of obtaining information respecting the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information is to be used to the injury of the United States, or to the advantage of any foreign nation, goes upon, enters, flies over, or otherwise obtains information concerning any vessel, aircraft, work of defense, navy yard, naval station, submarine base, fueling station, fort, battery, torpedo station, dockyard, canal, railroad, arsenal, camp, factory, mine, telegraph, telephone, wireless, or signal station, building, office, research laboratory or station or other place connected with the national defense owned or constructed, or in progress of construction by the United States or under the control of the United States, or of any of its officers, departments, or agencies, or within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, or any place in which any vessel, aircraft, arms, munitions, or other materials or instruments for use in time of war are being made, prepared, repaired, stored, or are the subject of research or development, under any contract or agreement with the United States, or any department or agency thereof, or with any person on behalf of the United States, or otherwise on behalf of the United States, or any prohibited place so designated by the President by proclamation in time of war or in case of national emergency in which anything for the use of the Army, Navy, or Air Force is being prepared or constructed or stored, information as to which prohibited place the President has determined would be prejudicial to the national defense; or
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(d) Whoever, lawfully having possession of, access to, control over, or being entrusted with any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note relating to the national defense, or information relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation, willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it [ABC News], or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it on demand to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it;
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Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. [Emphasis mine]
One key element in my accusation of ABC News is their blatant admission to knowing the information was classified "secret", and the fact that they maintain they have a "confidential" relationship with CIA employees who are committing espionage. Should the media be allowed to reveal national secrets that can be used to bolster the terrorist's propaganda campaign against us? Should they be allowed to illegally communicate national secrets to further their own political agenda, or to discredit the current administration?
The CIA employees should be sought out and tried for espionage crimes. ABC News should be indicted for accessory after the fact, and/or other espionage related charges considering they are printing known classified information for profit and political motives.
Any monkey should and would know that information of this nature, if true, would cause damage to our Nation in more ways than one. Not only are the agents and those associated with them put at risk by this kind of disclosure, but also the nations who may have supported us in the alleged ventures.
We have two problems that need to be solved: ONE - find and stop those who would intentionally "leak" classified information; and TWO - make an example of ABC News in order to stop further damage by the press from intentional dissemination of "leaked" classified information.
What do you think?
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