- Recent revelations that it was then-Deputy Attorney General
James Comey who said that Bush's use of NSA to target U.S. persons by going
around the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) was illegal and
refused to approve the wiretaps point to a high level Bush administration
official or officials being involved with the "leak" of the so-called
classified surveillance program.
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- Comey is an old friend and New York federal prosecutor
colleague of Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor in the illegal
leak of Valerie Plame Wilson's name and cover company to the media. It
was Comey who recommended Fitzgerald for his special prosecutor job and
placed a protective firewall between him and the political leadership of
the Justice Department.
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- There is some speculation about whether Comey was one
of the whistleblowers for the NSA surveillance story. If the Bush administration
decides to go after Comey that will put them at loggerheads with Fitzgerald,
resulting in a showdown within the Justice Department between career prosecutor
and political hacks like Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Comey is now
a Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Lockheed Martin. That would
place him in a potentially tenuous position since Lockheed Martin is a
top Pentagon and intelligence agency contractor and neocons are rife in
both the Defense Department and the intelligence community.
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- James Comey and Patrick Fitzgerald: Bush's ultimate targets
in NSA leak probe? Recent word from NSA is that long time employees of
the agency are livid that its signals intelligence has been misused by
the neo-cons for political purposes. The bottom line: expect more leaks.
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- CNN's national security correspondent David Ensor is
reporting that the "leak" of the wiretap program is very serious
according to his intelligence sources. However, the Bush administration
asked the New York Times over a year ago to sit on the story about the
surveillance "program," meaning the Bush White House knew there
was a leak for at least a year but waited until the publication of the
New York Times story to begin a criminal probe. This is an indication that
the criminal probe is as much a political misuse of government assets
as is the NSA surveillance.
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- NSA sources report that the head of security for the
agency is actively investigating possible leakers at the Fort Meade headquarters,
continuing a witch hunt and purge that began prior to 911. The head of
NSA security is Kemp Ensor.
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- It is not known if the two Ensors are related.
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- http://waynemadsenreport.com/
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