Reply #13: That was funny. I did get to watch the entire hearing tonight on TV. [View All]

[sabrina 1]

It was excellent. I believe it was Nader who brought up the fact that no one prosecuted Cheney for outing Valerie Plame.

Some of the 'witnesses', Abby Lowell eg, were excellent. But even the Repubs, although one of them looked like he was really trying hard not be like Lieberman/Palin/Huckabee, were reasonable.

I think the craziness of those calling for the assassination, prosecution, investigation of the NYT etc. finally scared the sane members of Congress enough that they realized it was time to try to calm things down.

I hope the WH and Holder were watching. Because the overall opinions seemed to be that they cannot prosecute Assange without prosecuting the entire media. And no one wanted to mess with the 1st Amendment.

It was reassuring to watch and to see that there does seem to be a few sane people left in DC. Probably the outrage from all over the world caused them to try to retrieve some of the lost respect for this country.

Lieberman's declaration that we should 'think about investigating the NYT' has to have scared them and I'm sure there were many calls from members of the press denouncing them.

We'll see, but unless they trump up some charges, like 'rape' again, I don't think there will be an attempt to prosecute him under the Espionage Act anyhow. And any attempt to do so will probably be met with world wide condemnation.