On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 10:12:39PM +0000, jim bell wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/03/politics/comey-wikileaks-journalists-intellige...
But Sasse nudged Comey to further flesh out the difference between the mainstream press and WikiLeaks."In my view, a huge portion of WikiLeaks' activities has nothing to do with legitimate newsgathering, informing the public and commenting on important public controversies, but is simply about releasing classified information to damage the US," Comey said."People sometimes get cynical about journalists -- American journalists do not do that. They will almost always call us before they publish classified information and say, 'is there anything about this that is going to put lives in danger -- that is going to jeopardize government people, military people, or innocent civilians anywhere in the world?'" Comey added. "This activity I'm talking about with WikiLeaks involves no such considerations whatsoever."
Lying politician. The intelligence of deceiving the public/ politicians/ etc in pursuit of a pure politically motivated court case. - denial (by omission) of Wikileaks SOP to ask the govt the exact question ("might this damage lives") - denial (by omission) that USGov refused to engage with Wikileaks, repeatedly, ongoingly, despite numerous and repeated attempts to ensure lives would be not put at risk Lieing bastards!