The British and USA Official Secrets Act

Behind the Espionage Act Prosecutions: Obama Plots Treasonous
Imposition of Official Secrets Act

Aug. 26, 2011 (LPAC)--Behind the Obama Justice Department's
flagrantly unconstitutional abuse of the Espionage Act to
prosecute intelligence community whistle-blowers is a treasonous
drive, first launched under President George W. Bush, to impose a
British Official Secrets Act on the United States. Given that
Federal Judges have repeatedly ruled against Justice Department
efforts to silence legitimate critics by prosecuting them as
foreign spies, sources confirm that the Obama Administration, led
by the President himself, has concluded that now is the time to
press Congress to rip up the Constitution altogether by imposing
Official Secrets. What this means is that Obama is out to impose
a foreign system -- Britain's heinous suppression of free speech
and any legitimate dissent -- upon the United States. As Lyndon
LaRouche commented today, ``If this is not treasonous, I don't
know what is.''
Justice Department and intelligence community sources have
provided some background on the Obama drive to stifle all dissent
and prosecute whistle-blowers and journalists alike under a U.S.
Official Secrets Act. During the Bush Administration,
then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales traveled to London to be
briefed by Tony Blair's Attorney General and Home Secretary on
the inner workings of the Official Secrets Act. After Gonzales
returned to Washington, Justice Department prosecutors launched
the Espionage Act cases against National Security Agency (NSA)
official Thomas Drake and CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling, who were
only suspected of leaking embarrassing information to American
journalists -- not foreign spy services. The Larry Franklin case,
launched around the same time, implicating two AIPAC officials,
Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, did involve classified data being
passed along to a foreign power -- Israel. The Bush
Administration left office before indictments were handed down
against Drake and Sterling, and it would be the Obama Justice
Department, under William M. Welch II, that would actually launch
the prosecutions under the Espionage Act.
Welch is under criminal investigation by a special
prosecutor for his role in the frameup of the late Senator Ted
Stevens (R-Alaska). He is also under investigation for his role
in the earlier railroading of the former Governor of Alabama. He
is involved in the Sterling case and was heavily involved in the
Drake prosecution until it blew up.
According to one Justice Department source, the harsh
reaction against the prosecutions by even some conservative
Federal Judges has made it clear that the path to an Official
Secrets Act is going to be through legislation -- not judicial
precedents. A senior intelligence official warned that the mood
in Congress, after a number of highly embarrassing Wikileak
revelations, is to succumb to Obama White House and Justice
Department pressure to accept the flagrant assault on the First
Amendment and other Constitutionally protected basic rights.
One August 2009 classified State Department cable released
by Wikileaks was especially embarrassing to Senators John McCain,
Joseph Lieberman, and Lindsey Graham. The cable provided a
detailed account of the visit to Tripoli, Libya, by the three
Senators and several others, to meet with Muammar Qaddafi and
work on accelerating normalization of relations, including sales
of weapons and other, non-lethal equipment used to suppress civil
disorder. McCain and Lieberman praised Qaddafi as a true ally in
the war against terrorism, and all three vowed to accelerate arms
sales to Qaddafi. Now, according to both the Justice Department
and intelligence community sources, they are ready to do anything
to suppress further leaks. They are expected to possibly champion
Administration legislation to impose an Official Secrets Act.
This is one more serious addition to the bill of impeachment
against President Obama. To impose a foreign system that is
patently unconstitutional is a high crime and misdemeanor that
warrants the President's immediate impeachment! Recall that in
his recent trip to London, President Obama established a joint
national security council with the newly established British
National Security Council. [JS