Lieberman Proposes Special Counsel for Leaks Probe

[jade3000]

Source: Associated Press & ABC News

Sen. Joe Lieberman says there should be a special counsel to look into allegations that the administration has leaked information on a U.S.-Israeli cyber-warfare campaign against Iran's nuclear program and other classified activities.

The Connecticut Independent also said President Barack Obama should instruct anybody on his staff involved in such leaks to come forward and that the president should himself be interviewed by investigators.

Both Democrats and Republicans have criticized apparent leaks about the cyber-warfare initiative, on Obama's selection of targets for counterterrorism assassination plots and the mission that killed Osama Bin Laden.


Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/lieberman-proposes-special-counsel-leaks-probe-16590594#.T95TBrX2ZLc

[Faygo Kid]

1. Whatever else happens, this creep is gone.

And to think Gore put him a heartbeat from the presidency. Take your wealth and get lost, Joe.

[dylan33]

2. Exactly

What a piece of work this guy is. If he is independent all Republicans must be.

[zbdent]

8. Where was all that GOP love in 2000?

If he would have announced that he was going to be a Republican lite, that should have endeared him to the nutjobs.

[hrmjustin]

17. He will still be around.

And if God forbid Romney wins he will put him in the cabinet.

[Blue_Tires]

40. I'll never forget the golden chance to get rid of him in '06

and certain people in the party (and on DU) completely kneecapped the liberal Dem nominee...You knew the fix was in when even the GOP put their unofficial support behind Lieberman

[Scootaloo]

3. Shouldn't acts of war be public knowledge, Lieberman?

I mean it IS a key feature of a democracy.

[zbdent]

9. Shouldn't he have been concerned about war crimes

when he was surgically attaching his lips to Bush's a$$?

[Scootaloo]

14. What i've figured out about Lieberman...

Is that like the majority of American "Israel supporters," his primary concern is making sure Arabs (or in this case, Iranians) die or are otherwise "punished" for existing, and "pro-Israel" is just a cover for that.

Thus it stands to reason that he'll get his knackers in a twist when an act of espionage against Iran is exposed, rather than getting upset by the act itself.

[dipsydoodle]

4. Be easier for your adminstration

to simply tell Lie Berman to fuck off.

[pnwmom]

5. Proving once again that he shouldn't be caucusing with the Democrats.

That's always been a fiction. Maybe he's a spy for the other side?

[quakerboy]

26. Why would they need a spy

When they can just illegally steal data from computers and tap phones and whatnot.

[nineteen50]

6. Who is putting cash in Joe's hand this time?

[asjr]

7. Years ago I had respect for Joe, but in the

last few years he has just become a trouble maker.

[JDPriestly]

10. The strange thing is that those calling for a special counsel to investigate the leaks are spreading

the information about the leaks faster than anyone.

I can imagine that foreign countries are just as capable of electronic espionage that does not require a leaker as we are.

When were there more leaks than in the Bush administration and most of them initiated by Bush and Cheney themselves.

I am a strong supporter of Israel, but even I sometimes wonder what country Lieberman represents in our Congress.

[Dustlawyer]

11. Whitewater II, coming soon to an election near you!

[davidpdx]

16. I wouldn't doubt for a moment that impeachment is their "backup plan"

if they lose the election.

[oldhippydude]

12. i am betting

that some Dominionist bible thumper on the committee leaked it...anybody heard from Michelle Bachman lately?

[sharp_stick]

15. My email to his office

"just go Joe"! I can't wait to be rid of this piece of shit.

[JDPriestly]

28. When will he finally be out of the Senate?

[sharp_stick]

35. Next January, right after the lame duck session

he's decided to "focus on his family" instead of running for re-election. The fact that he's probably as despised as any politician could be in the State has nothing to do with it.

Last time this scumbag snuck in as an Independent because CT doesn't have a sore loser law and the CT puke party abandoned their candidate to support him.

I was really hoping he'd try running again, it would have been a lot of fun to work against him.

[Special Prosciuto]

18. Lieberman is a mofo traitor

[The Wizard]

19. He should be caught

naked in a bath house with Ann Coulter. Feel free to vomit.

[USD79]

20. I'm obviously new here, but

boy, I think a special counsel would be beneficial to Obama. It removes controversy, suspicion and is in step with his campaign promise of transparency. Why the concern about one here?

[Kingofalldems]

27. One is certainly needed for the Murdoch empire, not here though

Thanks for the concern.

[JDPriestly]

29. Obama's Attorney General's office is already bipartisan because when Obama took office,

unlike recent presidents that preceded him, did not fire pretty much all of Bush's appointees.

And Obama has already appointed a lawyer from the Attorney General's office to investigate and prosecute the person or people responsible for the leaks.

Obama has been harder on leakers than the presidents that preceded him.

Obama can be trusted to be dispassionate and fair in this. He probably wants to find the source of the leaks more than anyone. The leaks were not done to help him, but rather to embarrass him, and the Republicans in Congress are trying to use the leaks to further embarrass Obama.

Personally, I think that the disclosures about the cyber-spying on Iran and Israel may have come from a foreign country.

[Zorro]

21. Here's what's behind the wingnut outrage

They believe the Flame virus was developed by the Israelis, who informed the Obama administration.

The administration then leaked information about the virus, thus compromising national security and betraying Israeli trust in an attempt to both placate the Muslims and manage the growing threat of an Israeli strike against Iran.

They're trying to drive a wedge between US-Israel relations, claim that Obama betrayed the country, and affect Obama's fundraising efforts with the Jewish community. Thus Lieberman's proposal for a special counsel; Republicants and their toadies really want to make political hay out of a very sensitive situation.

That's what they're up to.

[JDPriestly]

30. But it seems to me that a third country could easily figure out that the US would have developed

the virus (assuming we did) and that it would serve the interests of a third country to publicize that fact just to show that they had adequate computer competence to figure it out. Seems a little obvious that the US would be very interested in doing what was done with that code.

[Poll_Blind]

36. Whaaa? Is that just a guess on your part or...?

Where is that coming from?

PB

[Zorro]

38. I have my sources

[still_one]

22. Fuck you LIeberman. The sooner this pos is out the better for the country and the Democratic party.

[Dawson Leery]

23. On January 3, 2013, Joe LIEberman will NO LONGER be a US Senator.

[BlueMTexpat]

32. That's not soon enough for me.

Unfortunately, it's the best that we can hope for.

[The Second Stone]

24. I think the Justice Department should get the

FBI to conduct an investigation. If it appears that the White House was the source of it, then a special council should be appointed. But we also need to consider all the other sources that this might have come from.

It's been obvious for some time that Stutnex was either Israeli or US or both. Correctly using Flame, with many of the same components would probably require the same authors to master it, at least for about 5 years after it has been studied and captured.

I don't care for Joe Lieberman at all. But this one time I do not think he is out of line. The fact that he wasn't all over the Valerie Plame leaks the same way demonstrates to me that his real loyalties are with the Republicans. But I thought that right after the Lewinsky affair.

[Zoeisright]

25. Fuck you, Lieberasshole.

[MjolnirTime]

31. Nobody cares what you say any more, Traitor Joe. You're a "dead man walking".

[Festivito]

33. Hmm, okay, then we get one on a Republican mess, like torture, ...

FBI failure to look at fifth 9/11 hijacker's computer
Raiding of Jack Anderson widow's house
Non-release of JFK information by CIA
...
whatever.
A trade is okay.

[SDjack]

34. Joe's has the reputation as being a pipeline of US govt secrets

to Israel.

[BootinUp]

37. Joe never disappoints

when it comes to being a traitorous asshole.

[Arugula Latte]

41. I wish Lieberman would get probed

by angry aliens.

[ronwelldobbs]

42. Traitor Joe can go to hell

That smug little man needs to retire and go away.

[Citizen Worker]

43. Hey Joe, what about Valerie Plame?