LEAKERS BAD, CHENEY GOOD

The Obama Administration has no problem punishing government officials who leak information to the press but is unwilling to tackle the crimes of the Bush Administration.

Ex-CIA officer charged with giving reporter secrets
Thu Jan 6, 2011 4:24pm EST
By James Vicini

WASHINGTON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - A former CIA officer was arrested on Thursday on charges of illegally disclosing national defense information about Iran to a New York Times reporter who wrote a book.

The U.S. Justice Department said Jeffrey Sterling, 43, was charged with six counts of unauthorized disclosure of national defense information and one count of unlawfully keeping national defense information, mail fraud, unauthorized conveyance of government property and obstructing justice

In other cases, Stephen Kim, a foreign policy analyst who worked at the U.S. State Department, was charged in August with leaking a top-secret intelligence report to a news reporter last year.

Also last year, a former high-ranking official at the National Security Agency was charged with illegally possessing classified information that he allegedly gave to a reporter at the Baltimore Sun newspaper.