Sunday, August 08, 2004
The Register 5th August 2004:White House gazette Fox News has betrayed to the Feds a high-profile source who exposed intelligence blunders by the National Security Agency (NSA) in dealing with terrorist communications, the Washington Post reports.
According to the story, US Senator Richard Shelby (Republican, Alabama), former Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has been fingered to the Feds for leaking the embarrassing information to the press.
Fox News's Chief Political Correspondent, Carl Cameron, has admitted confirming to the FBI that Senator Shelby disclosed possibly classified information during an interview in June of 2002.
Allegedly, Shelby blew the whistle on two messages intercepted by the NSA just before the 9/11 atrocities, claiming that "tomorrow is zero hour," and "the match is about to begin."
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