went for. it was a farce, sadly for scooter libby and for libby mills twasn t. that s a threshold because there is no crime. but but, then the president must be made to deal with the political repercussions because while dave sanger pretended like, oh, i really, the reasons they didn t really want to let this out when ch were made up, he made one damning admission and that is that the editors in the new york times went to the white house and told them that they were going to publish this story and no one said not to publish. sean:s sean:s that fascinating in and of itself. but who would ever want to work in a covert operation or a joint operation with the united states of america, knowing that if it s in their best political interest, meaning the white house, that that information could be leakd? for example, israel,
the united states. nevertheless, there should be there must be an investigation can i tell you where the crime would be the crime would be one at a time. if the information was not authorized by the original classifying authority, then it becomes illegal. if it was authorized by obam athen it is legal. so first they have to investigate that s my point. whether or not, who gave the information and whether or not it was wait a minute. if the intent was not to harm the united states, but to bolster the re-election effort of the president it doesn t matter. sean: wait a minute. i am asking victoria. it can be a problem. nevertheless, we must investigate to do so who did the leaks. sean: when you think of the media hist earia of valerie plame, not a covert operative and they knew the leaker from day 1 and patrick fitzgerald went for.
it was leak to the associated press nits entirety. it was the highest penetration we ever had of al qaeda and the program had to be avoided because it was leaked in total by someone close to the top. sean: let s go to the comments of dianne feinstein. among the things she said is that american lives have been put in jeopardy and she said this. let s roll the tape. this has to stop. when people say they don t want to work with the united states because they can t trustitous keep a secret, that s serious. when allies become concerned, when an asset s life is in jeopardy or the asset s family s life is in jeopardy. that s a problem. the point of intelligence is to be able to know what might happen to protect this country. we can t do that if the intelligence is no longer except with strict scrutiny, within the number of people that need to have it. sean: i rarely disagree with the senator. she seems very, very on target
states government? okay. people forget how all of this started. this administration. is a gun-control administration. they tried to put the violence in mexico on the blame of the united states. so they concocted this scheme and actually sending our federal agents, sending guns down there and trying to cook some little deal to say that we have to get more guns under control. that s how this all started? we have to get guns under control, so we give them to the gangs for 11 months, they completely denied we asked and asked, darrell and i and others asked for information on this. they completely denied anything for 11 months. and then they finally admitted t. now they are trying to dribble and drab this out, so it goes beyond the election. sean: how many months? this is 18 months. we asked in the spring, we asked in the fall, now the game that is being played, we are going on
information in operation fast & furious. the only way they don t constitutionally is if the president asserts executive privilege and has a legitimate reason. the president hasn t done that. this shows a contempt for the rule of law that is a hallmark of the justice department and this administration. sean: victor, when we get to executive privilege, i know it s a topic you have dealt with a let over the years. talk about the executive. i think we ought to be focusing more on the president. for example, in a little noted statement in that press conference, he said that all all the reporters, unequivocally unequivocally said that the information in those stories did not come from the white house. now, that s either a blatantly false statement by the president or all three reporters falsely sourced their stories. which is it? where is the press on this? i say, congress is going to have to do their job, but good people in the press are going to have jay carney ought to be asked