Page 6 - Sensitive Security Information News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Nixon administration to go after the leakers of the pentagon papers and to charge the rosenbergs to pass secret information during the cold war. this comesarosen was accused of being a position, quote, co-conspirator for publishing sensitive security information. here is the reaction. monica crowley and democratic strategist, mr. bernard whitman. monica, the espionage act, normally a little more used for things other than a guy trying to do his job? >> it's been invoked three times since pentagon papers. obama administration has invoke it six times. it's supposed to be leveled at grave injury ...

They took it steps too far. i remember during bush years, state secrets were being splashed across the front pages on counter-terrorism, interrogation, black sites. the president of the united states commander in chief, george w. bush picked up himself and called "new york times" and pegged begged them not to release the story that would gravely endangering the united states. "new york times" published anyway. you go after the leaker, did bush go after "new york times"? absolutely not. >> they had to build a case to get a judge to authorize to get phone records. they needed that information in...

Two fox19 sources connected to the irs, none of these six agents had the same direct manager or area manager. in fact, the only common link between all these agents is one woman named cindy thomas, the program manager of the tax exempt organization's division, and the highest ranking official in the cincinnati division. thomas not only has the only common authority over all these agents, but would also have been receiving system generated red flags when these cases in the system were therefore more than nine months. one more detail on cindy thomas. remember that progress civil journalism progr...

The ground asked for it. it was denied. don't you want to know who denied that? >> yes. >> sean: okay. >> if that's exactly what happened. >> sean: that is what happened. >> you are more of an expert about it, following it closely, and i have no . it is my understanding that there was significant disagreement between the cia, the fbi, and several other groups, and that's what's bounced around in the talking points. >> sean: multiple requests, they were denied. during the attack, we still don't know where the president of the united states was after he was told about it at 4:00 in the afternoon...

Journalist who received the information. for very good reason. the journalist is out there doing their job under the first amendment. as a result, the justice department has developed a series of very strict guidelines that require the attorney general of the united states to sign off on any subpoena, to collect this kind of information. and as a result, it is rarely done. but we now have two instances of it being done, first by the administration and going after james rosen. this went back to as early as may of 2010. then a more recent example going after the phone lines used by 100 editors a...