On June 11, 2009, Mr. Rosen reported that “the Central Intelligence Agency has learned, through sources inside North Korea,” that Pyongyang was likely to respond to a United Nations resolution condemning its nuclear and missile tests with more tests and other measures. The news was no surprise, but C.I.A. officials were furious that a top-secret analysis had been leaked almost instantly, according to a former government official. (A Fox News spokesman said Mr. Rosen declined to comment.)
If Fox and Roger Ailes had a real problem with it, they should have voiced it 3 years ago when they were first informed of the investigation, one would think. Curious then, that there's been a coincidence of "scandals" to pop up in a matter of a few weeks, don't you think?
Now, I'm not saying that it makes any sense to go after the source of the leaks, because the leak itself wasn't a big surprise. But as the NYT article noted, both sides had been clamoring for some time now, for the White House (both Obama and Bush) to clamp down on leaks. So what this amounts to, is fake outrage on the right, because they're getting exactly what they wanted all these years, anyway.
Well, let's be honest: They still think Scooter Libby should have been excused from the beginning. To conservatives, the only inexcusable prosecution is that of their own; everyone else should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, waterboarded and sent away to Guantanamo Bay for indefinite confinement.
Just wait for the blow back.
An update:
This is getting interesting. According to Reuters, a DOJ source has told Reuters that, "Consistent with Department of Justice policies and procedures, the government provided notification of those subpoenas nearly three years ago by certified mail, facsimile, and e-mail."
You read that part about certified mail? This means that if someone performs an FOIA request, we could have absolute proof that Fox News knew and lied about what they knew, and when they knew it. It's called irony.
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