real national security issue. scooter libby, investigators were disgraced because it was leaked unintentional by someone close tote president, not scooter libby. this goes to the heart of our national security so this could be this could dwarf watergate, right? if the media does its job, absolutely. to me, there is no comparison at all. sean: we know what happened at the end of watergate. explain. watergate was internal. it was an attempt to seal campaign documents and the related activities never went to national security issues. it was an abuse of the political process. here, we are talking about the most sensitive, classified secrets that we have, leaked openly by the administration. dianne feinstein said, it s an avalanche of leaks. i don t know if any time in our history, where so much has been leaked, so much devastating information has been leaked at one time and it comes from
real national security issue. scooter libby, investigators were disgraced because it was leaked unintentional by someone close tote president, not scooter libby. this goes to the heart of our national security so this could be this could dwarf watergate, right? if the media does its job, absolutely. to me, there is no comparison at all. sean: we know what happened at the end of watergate. explain. watergate was internal. it was an attempt to seal campaign documents and the related activities never went to national security issues. it was an abuse of the political process. here, we are talking about the most sensitive, classified secrets that we have, leaked openly by the administration. dianne feinstein said, it s an avalanche of leaks. i don t know if any time in our history, where so much has been leaked, so much devastating information has been leaked at one time and it comes from
reporter said that none of this information came from the white house? sean: byron, you are the media. we are talking about your friends and colleagues. are they doing due diligence here and a service to the american people? to have a really big investigation, you have to have a white-hot controversy before it. think back to the volery plame affair. there was a drumbeat in the new york times and the washington post, on the broadcast initiatives and cable, every single day. in the end, the bush administration buckled. they gave patrick fitzgerald the investigator, basically, the full powers of the attorney general to look at this. i cannot see that happening in in thadministration unless there was a drumbeat like that happening? in other words, this is an example where the media, compliceit, they want to get obama re-elected, so they are covering for him? is that would it be different if it were a conservative president? the white house feel its every day. when there is that pre