Patrick Leahy needs to STFU

Posted By Deebow

Maybe this is going to have to be a regular feature from me. I have an extremely low tolerance for traitors, unpatriotic behavior and treasonous acts.  Senator Patrick Leahy is 3-0 on all of those.

I saw an article today from the AP Wire (yeah I know, hard to trust, but they seem to be everywhere) and they had some news on the Blackwater USA shooting that took place in Baghdad.  And as Senate Judiciary Chairman, Senator Leahy that it wise to open his yap and say the following:

"In this administration, accountability goes by the boards," said Leahy. "That goes equally for misconduct and for incompetence. If you get caught, they will get you immunity. If you get convicted, they will commute your sentence."

Patrick Leahy needs to STFU, now.  If I was a US Attorney, I would make it my mission in life before I retired from Federal service to see him doing the perp-walk in an orange jumpsuit.  I wouldn't elect this ass-hat to be dog-catcher.

Among his notable accomplishments while in office:

Opposed U.S. military support for the Contras in their fight against the Marxist Sandinistas

Opposed the 1991 Persian Gulf War

Voted against funding the post-9/11 invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq

Voted against protecting U.S. military personnel from the International Criminal Court
Calls Guantanamo Bay detention center "an international embarrassment to our nation, to our ideals and it remains a festering threat to our security. . . . We're the country that tells people that we adhere to the rule of law. We want other countries to adhere to the rule of law. And in Guantanamo, we are not."

And as it is noted in DiscoverTheNetworks.org

According to a 1987 San Diego Union-Tribune report, in a 1985 television appearance Leahy disclosed classified information that one of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's telephone conversations had been intercepted. The information that Leahy revealed had been used in the operation to capture the Arab terrorists who had hijacked the Achille Lauro cruise ship and killed American citizens, and the Union-Tribune claimed that Leahy's indiscretion may have cost the life of at least one of the Egyptian operatives involved in that operation. 

As well as...

In 1987, The Washington Times reported that Leahy had also leaked secret information about a 1986 covert operation planned by the Reagan administration to overthrow Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. Leahy allegedly had said, "I thought [the operation] was probably the most ridiculous thing I had seen, and also the most irresponsible," and had threatened to expose the operation to CIA Director William Casey. A few weeks later, details of the plan appeared in The Washington Post, and the operation was canceled.

I could just go on, and on.... And I will...

Senator Leahy apparently can't help himself.  When that happens, we call it pathological.

Another example of Leahy revealing confidential information occurred just before the Iran-Contra hearings were to begin, when he allowed an NBC reporter to look through the Senate Intelligence Committee's confidential draft report on the burgeoning scandal. After NBC used the privileged information in a January 1987 report, Leahy came under increasing fire, and after a six-month internal investigation he was forced to step down from his seat on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Leahy's leak was considered to be one of the most serious breaches of secrecy in the Intelligence Committee's then-10-year history.

It seems though, as Morpheus says, fate is not without a sense of irony....

Leahy was an avid supporter of Marla Ruzicka, an antiwar activist who worked closely with radical Marxists like Medea Benjamin and the groups Global Exchange and Code Pink for Peace. The stated objective of Ruzicka's work (prior to her April 16, 2005 killing by a suicide bomber in Iraq) was to help the victims of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

OK, c'mon, is anyone else giggling just a little that someone who was working with groups who are actively rooting for our defeat and hate our country was killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq?

That not withstanding, my point to all this is that when Senator Leahy is a member of a party whose president in the last three weeks of his presidency commuted the sentences of 16 members of FALN, a violent Puerto Rican nationalist group that set off 120 bombs in the United States mostly in New York City and Chicago, convicted for conspiracies to commit robbery, bomb-making, and sedition, as well as for firearms and explosives violations, and he has indisputably committed treasonous acts that he has yet to be prosecuted for (and Senator Leahy absolutely should be), you should not be flapping your pie-hole about misconduct and incompetence, and talking about how any act committed by someone automatically earns a commuted sentence.

Senator Leahy has yet to be indicted for these crimes.  He should be careful because people like me will start shouting to the world what a traitor he really is, with the proof in hand....

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Patrick Leahy needs to STFU

Maybe this is going to have to be a regular feature from me. I have an extremely low tolerance for traitors, unpatriotic behavior and treasonous acts.  Senator Patrick Leahy is 3-0 on all of those.

I saw an article today from the AP Wire (yeah I know, hard to trust, but they seem to be everywhere) and they had some news on the Blackwater USA shooting that took place in Baghdad.  And as Senate Judiciary Chairman, Senator Leahy that it wise to open his yap and say the following:

"In this administration, accountability goes by the boards," said Leahy. "That goes equally for misconduct and for incompetence. If you get caught, they will get you immunity. If you get convicted, they will commute your sentence."

Patrick Leahy needs to STFU, now.  If I was a US Attorney, I would make it my mission in life before I retired from Federal service to see him doing the perp-walk in an orange jumpsuit.  I wouldn't elect this ass-hat to be dog-catcher.

Among his notable accomplishments while in office:

Opposed U.S. military support for the Contras in their fight against the Marxist Sandinistas

Opposed the 1991 Persian Gulf War

Voted against funding the post-9/11 invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq

Voted against protecting U.S. military personnel from the International Criminal Court
Calls Guantanamo Bay detention center "an international embarrassment to our nation, to our ideals and it remains a festering threat to our security. . . . We're the country that tells people that we adhere to the rule of law. We want other countries to adhere to the rule of law. And in Guantanamo, we are not."

And as it is noted in DiscoverTheNetworks.org

According to a 1987 San Diego Union-Tribune report, in a 1985 television appearance Leahy disclosed classified information that one of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's telephone conversations had been intercepted. The information that Leahy revealed had been used in the operation to capture the Arab terrorists who had hijacked the Achille Lauro cruise ship and killed American citizens, and the Union-Tribune claimed that Leahy's indiscretion may have cost the life of at least one of the Egyptian operatives involved in that operation. 

As well as...

In 1987, The Washington Times reported that Leahy had also leaked secret information about a 1986 covert operation planned by the Reagan administration to overthrow Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. Leahy allegedly had said, "I thought [the operation] was probably the most ridiculous thing I had seen, and also the most irresponsible," and had threatened to expose the operation to CIA Director William Casey. A few weeks later, details of the plan appeared in The Washington Post, and the operation was canceled.

I could just go on, and on.... And I will...

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