Reply #32: Some of what Melanie Morgan said. [View All]

"MELANIE MORGAN, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: I see it as treason, plain and simple, and my advice to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales at this point in time is chop chop, hurry up, let‘s get these prosecutors fired up and get the subpoenas served, get the indictments going and get the guy behind jail.

MATTHEWS: What would be the crime, what‘s the crime?

MORGAN: Treason. You do not reveal secrets in a time of war."

More:
"MORGAN: ... Because there is a certain responsibility that comes with being a journalist. I‘ve been a journalist for over 30 years and it is incomprehensible to me that this would have taken place during World War II. If “The New York Times” had done what it is doing today, publishing state secrets, it‘s classified information, there is a law against it, it‘s not depriving anybody, we have not gone outside the boundary of the rights and responsibilities that the administration has, it‘s against the law. If this had happened during World War II, we would have all been sunk. This is just shameful behavior."

"MATTHEWS: Let me ask you, Melanie—thanks for coming on, by the way, but let me ask you Melanie, do you really mean treason? You mean put them in jail for life? I don‘t know what treason carries as a sanction, but I assume the penalty are incredibly severe, 20 years perhaps. You are saying to put Bill Keller, the editor of “The New York Times” and his associates in prison for 20 years?

MELANIE MORGAN, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: Absolutely. I absolutely am advocating that. What has happened is shameful. If he was ultimately the one responsible for making the decision to publish.

MATTHEWS: What about the N.S.A., would you do the same in the N.S.A.

Case?

MORGAN: Yes, absolutely I would.

MATTHEWS: You would put him in jail for 20 years for that?"
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Chris looked disgusted at times, but that is not good enough. Giving her that much air time was bound to get the message to many people.

He let her get away scott free when she said there was no evidence Plame was covert. Not a word.

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