XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1999 19:22:44 UTC XXXXX
JUSTICE DEPT CONSIDERS PROSECUTING GERTZ FOR UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF
CLASSIFIED MATERIAL PUBLISHED IN NEW BOOK
**Exclusive**
The Justice Department has considered prosecuting WASHINGTON TIMES reporter
Bill Gertz for unlawful possession of classified material, the DRUDGE REPORT
has learned -- material that is set to be published in a new blockbuster book!
Coming next week from every spooks' favorite reporter: BETRAYAL.
NY TIMES nuke and spy writer Gerth may have just won the Pulitzer, but the
project Gertz has been working on in secret for over a year has now been
activated and lands in bookstores on Monday.
-- Gertz offers intelligence, also featured in the upcoming Cox Report,
including this nugget: After stealing secrets from the U.S., China has
tested a neutron warhead seven times!
[America, which designed it, never tested it.]
-- The First detailed interview with Navy Lt. Jack Daly, the officer who was
lazed [shot by a laser] from a Russian merchant ship in 1997 off of
Washington State's Puget Sound. Gertz, for the first time, has the
officer's whole story of how he was hung out to dry. The State Department
tipped off the Russians in advance of a search of the ship.
-- A top-secret CIA memo exposes how China and Pakistan collaborated
secretly to fool the United States about illicit nuclear sales. The document
is included in the appendix.
-- The secret Executive Order signed by Clinton on missile defense. That and
another document [both reprinted] show that the administration has no plans
to deploy a national missile defense outside the ABM treaty. And since the
ABM treaty prohibits defending national territory or even preparing to do
so, any claims to be considering it are bogus. The missile d chapter also
has lots of inside stuff on why we're defenseless. Interesting in light of
China's recent threat to take unspecified action against us for the Belgrade
Embassy bombing.
-- The North Korea chapter reveals how Madeleine Albright lied to Congress
about Pyongyang's continuing development of nuclear weapons in order to
protect its much-vaunted Agreed Framework, that was supposed to have halted
the program back in the early 1990s.
-- Secret documents reveal how Russia's nuclear weapons control is weakening.
And much more...
Gertz's access to highly classified State Department and Pentagon documents
has completely unnerved the White House. But for those who feel the
government is keeping too many secrets from the taxpaying public, Gertz has
become an underground hero.
"The Justice Department will never file charges against Bill," predicted one
WASHINGTON TIMES editor on Thursday.
"They are scared of what he knows, and what he will report next."
In any other era, many of the Gertz revelations presented in BETRAYAL would
have become solo news cycles that would have rocked a nation.
But citizens have turned numb - glazing over the details of a world turned
hot and dangerous.
In the past few days my life has been revolving around the mile markers
along Route 1 in the Florida Keys. Been swimming with the fish, talking
back to the thunder storms, sharing dinner with parrots in this paradise,
dodging the incoming missiles from China, counting down the minutes until I
get lazed by a ship hanging off shore that I just know is Russian.
Thanks for the nightmares, Bill Gertz.
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