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Vote on Security Clearance Amendment Expected Today

By Jeralyn, Section Legislation
Posted on Thu Jul 14, 2005 at 10:28:24 AM EST
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Senators Reid, Levin, Rockefeller, Biden and Durbin have proposed an Amendment to the Homeland Security Appropriations Bill which is on the Senate Floor this morning. (received by e-mail.)It reads:

No federal employee who discloses or has disclosed classified information, including the identity of a covert agent of the Central Intelligence Agency, to a person not authorized to receive such information shall be entitled to hold a security clearance for access to such information.

A vote is expected today.

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    Vote on Security Clearance Amendment Expected Today | 6 comments (6 topical)
    Re: Vote on Security Clearance Amendment Expected (none / 0) (#1)
    by swingvote on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:01:13 PM EST
    This is a classic case of shoot first, aim later. The first victim of it, should they be stupid enough to pass it, will be some Senator like John Kerry who repeats something he knows from a Intelligence Oversight Committee hearing (assuming John could be bothered to show up at one for a change). And notice the wording (assuming TL has it right). This goes far beyond the law at issue in the Plame case. Memoirs admitting one's own past covert actions, even if they took place during WWII, would be sufficient. Great PR stunt; stupid, stupid law.

    Re: Vote on Security Clearance Amendment Expected (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:01:13 PM EST
    I think that this new Security Clearance Amendment is brilliant. But the real shame is that we need such a thing at all (because people with security clearances should know better than to go around divulging such information).

    Re: Vote on Security Clearance Amendment Expected (none / 0) (#3)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:01:13 PM EST
    Sure, sure -- and the Patriot Act which no one could read before voting on it, that magically sprouted from Cheney's forehead in a couple of days, all 600+ pages of it, that was SWELL congressing. Some Senator like John Kerry who actually SERVED his country in foreign war, twice, and has probably been a US Senator for longer than you have been alive. IF this passes and becomes law, SecState Rice will no longer be able to read her own mail, since she OUTED the Al Qaeda mole to the NYT. Why did she do that? In several ways it is WORSE than what Rove did.

    Re: Vote on Security Clearance Amendment Expected (none / 0) (#4)
    by jarober on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:01:14 PM EST
    Such a law would nail a goodly portion of the intelligence committee (Senate) - both parties. For instance, who leaked the story on Aero Airlines?

    Re: Vote on Security Clearance Amendment Expected (none / 0) (#5)
    by ppjakajim on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:01:14 PM EST
    JR - You don't understand. There are good leakers and bad leakers. Good sorces and bad sources. Now, who do you think gets to pick the labels?

    Re: Vote on Security Clearance Amendment Expected (none / 0) (#7)
    by Sailor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:01:14 PM EST
    I'm amazed that anyone thinks that after a gov't official violates their security clearance they should still be trusted with matters of nat'l security. Name one person in gov't, and provide links, that violated nat'l security and kept their jobs. Aside from bushco operatives.

    Vote on Security Clearance Amendment Expected Today | 6 comments (6 topical)