conspiracy to communicate national defense information

* " When the dust cleared, Jean Schmidt had carried a district by 3,500 votes, or less than 4%. Even worse for the Republican Party's digestion is another statistic: in the Republican Primary, 45,000 people voted, and Jean Schmidt got 58,000 votes in the general election. Only 13,000 people not among the party faithful bothered to cast their ballots for her. Hackett, by contrast, got 54,000 votes, or almost 40,000 more than the Democratic Primary. If the swing vote, the moderates and not strongly committed voters, break three to one, that is the sign of an electoral tidal wave. This despite Schmidt outspending Hackett by nearly three to one." (link)

* "The indictment charges Steve Rosen, AIPAC´s former policy director, and Keith Weissman, its former Iran analyst, with "conspiracy to communicate national defense information to people not entitled to receive it," which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
Rosen is also charged with actual communication of national defense information, also punishable by 10 years in prison.
The charges against the former AIPAC staffers do not rise to the level of espionage, which the defendants and their supporters had feared...
In indicting all three with "conspiracy to communicate national defense information to persons not entitled to receive it," McNulty made it clear that the target was much broader: those in Washington who trade in classified information." (link)
more to come?

* "Last night there were unconfirmed reports that US forces were engaged in gun battles after the blast. The Army of Ansar al-Sunna, an Islamic militant group, claimed that they had taken an injured marine hostage after fighting and that his photograph would be published on the internet. The Pentagon, however, denied that any military personnel were missing." (link)

* in case you've missed the debate - larry johnson said that blinky was surprised by the switch from TWOT to GSAVE, and he didnt like it. bush made his point loudly, and now we are back in the land of TWOT. *THAT* is leadership.
"President Bush publicly overruled some of his top advisers on Wednesday in a debate about what to call the conflict with Islamic extremists, saying, "Make no mistake about it, we are at war."
In a speech here, Mr. Bush used the phrase "war on terror" no less than five times...
he used the word "war," at least 13 other times in his 47-minute speech, most of which was about domestic policy." (link)
*THAT* is leadership. (its not obvious why one would go on a 5 week holiday in a war.)

* Murray Waas and Joe Wilson were on DemNow (link)