CNN's O'Brien tries to get Jay Rockefeller to discuss classified info

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0511/09/ltm.04.html

<snip>M. O'BRIEN: Well, let me ask you this, when you heard about them, what did you do about it?

ROCKEFELLER: Heard about?

M. O'BRIEN: When you heard about these prisons and you became aware of them in a classified forum, what did you do?

ROCKEFELLER: I'm -- Miles, I'm -- I'm sorry, this makes me a terrible interview, but I'm in a position where I cannot answer your question by saying -- when you say when you heard about these prisons, if I said anything I would either be confirming them or not, and it's embarrassing. I apologize.

M. O'BRIEN: Yes. No, I understand. I'm putting you on the spot. I apologize. I guess the question...

ROCKEFELLER: Can I say something more, though?

M. O'BRIEN: Yes, feel free.

ROCKEFELLER: I think that -- that these so-called secret briefings, or whatever, on whatever subject are used too much by the Bush administration as a way of suppressing information, because they know that if I'm told something about any subject by a high official in certain types of locations, that I can never say anything about it for the rest of my life. And the same with Pat Roberts. He has that same problem.

So it's a very difficult situation.

Yea Miles I am sure you feel really terrible about asking questions that could lead to a Democrat being implicated in this Rove inspired leak BS. This is the kind of pond scum in the media our Democrats are up against.

I can't credit any of these tv types with that level of "smarts"

Who writes that script? Is Miles still in secret negotiations with the Bush administration to fly on the Space Shuttle? Bet he would put the kneepads on for that ride. What do you think?

Don

I'm too disillusioned with tv media to watch any more....

isn't he going against the "I can neither confirm nor deny" requirement of his security clearance?

Jay is on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Lott isn't.

Don