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    Feinstein: Someone from the White House is leaking national-security secrets that coincidentally make Obama look good
    posted at 10:01 am on July 24, 2012 by Ed Morrissey

    Weeks after Congress opened a probe into national security leaks that mysteriously arose making Barack Obama look good, we seem to have gotten a little close to the source. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said publicly yesterday that at least some of these reputation-burnishing leaks came from the White House that benefited from them: http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill...s-behind-leaks

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    Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Monday that someone at the White House was responsible for the recent leaks of classified information. “I think the White House has to understand that some of this is coming from their ranks,” Feinstein said in an address at the World Affairs Council, the Associated Press first reported.
    Feinstein rushed to defend President Barack Obama, however:

    Feinstein said she was certain that President Obama had not disclosed any of the classified intelligence, but believed others in the administration were responsible. “I don’t believe for a moment that he goes out and talks about it,” she said of the president.

    Of course not. That’s why a President hires staff and appoints political players — to do that kind of work for him.

    Meanwhile, some of Obama’s other appointees outside the White House insisted that the leaked material didn’t come from them: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...m-white-house/

    Last Thursday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified in closed session before the House Armed Services Committee on the leaks. The committee’s chairman, Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon, R-Calif., told reporters afterward that he did not believe the Pentagon was responsible for recent national security leaks. “I feel pretty secure they were not” from the Pentagon, McKeon said after the three-hour hearing.

    Leaks usually occur for two reasons: to make someone look good, and to make someone look bad. Whistleblowing falls into the latter category, but it’s not the only impulse found with those kinds of leaks, either. With leaks of the first type, the best question to ask is: Cui bono? Who benefits? While that’s not an evidentiary process, it’s usually a pretty reliable way for investigators and non-investigators to narrow the evidentiary search rationally and effectively. Apparently, Feinstein agrees.

    In a speech to the VFW today, Mitt Romney will demand an investigation into the leaks, and called on the White House to stop “stonewalling”: http://politicker.com/2012/07/mitt-r...e-house-leaks/

    Mitt Romney will be addressing the VFW Convention in Nevada this afternoon and, based on a prepared excerpt of his speech distributed by his campaign, he plans to demand President Obama conduct a “full and prompt investigation” of leaks of classified information that may have come from the White House.

    “This conduct is contemptible. It betrays our national interest. It compromises our men and women in the field. And it demands a full and prompt investigation, with explanation and consequence,” Mr. Romney’s speech says. “Whoever provided classified information to the media, seeking political advantage for the administration, must be exposed, dismissed, and punished. The time for stonewalling is over.” …

    “It is not enough to say the matter is being looked into, and leave it at that. When the issue is the political use of highly sensitive national security information, it is unacceptable to say, ‘We’ll report our findings after Election Day,’” Mr. Romney says in the speech. “Exactly who in the White House betrayed these secrets? Did a superior authorize it? These are things that Americans are entitled to know – and they are entitled to know right now. If the President believes – as he said last week – that the buck stops with him, then he owes all Americans a full and prompt accounting of the facts.”

    Don’t expect to see the White House immediately agreeing to an independent investigation, to say the least. http://hotair.com/archives/2012/07/2...ama-look-good/

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    Meanwhile, the Pakistani doctor who told us where Bin Laden was hiding rots in jail for 33 years, while the Big O tells us what a gutsy call he made. So how many other foreign informants will have the guts to help us find other terrorists, if this is how they are treated?

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    And, ain’t it funny that – as long as the good doctor rots in a paki prison – the US government (such as it is) doesn’t have to pay him the $25,000,000.00 REWARD offered for information on OBL?
    Neat how that stuff works out, ain’t it?

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    The White House is the dog that didn’t bark when it comes to these leaks.

    Not much outrage from there about Fast & Furious neither. Huh…

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    Where is it that the buck stops?

    The Democrats have been accusing Romney for being responsible for investments that Bain made when he no longer was in operational control of the company since his name was still on SEC documents as chairman and CEO. Obama even pulled out the Harry Truman quote. http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/20...s-with-you.php

    “It’s pretty clear to me that I’m responsible for folks who are working in the federal government and you know, Harry Truman said the buck stops with you,” Obama said in an interview with TV station WJLA.
    We can argue about that back and forth and partisans will never be convinced of the others' arguments. But I suspect that we can all agree that the commander in chief is responsible for what his own staff continues to do even if he did not give the order for them to start doing it. If they keep on doing it and he has done nothing to stop it, then the buck stops with him.

    And that is what we're looking at with these national security leaks about how awesome the President is as a leader. Even Democrat Dianne Feinstein has concluded that the leaks came from the White House. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...tics+-+Text%29

    The Democratic leader of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Monday that the White House appears to be responsible for some leaks of classified information. "I think the White House has to understand that some of this is coming from their ranks," Sen. Dianne Feinstein told a World Affairs Council forum.

    The California lawmaker said she was certain that President Barack Obama, who receives a daily intelligence briefing, isn't disclosing secret information, but she was uncertain about others at the White House. "I don't believe for a moment that he goes out and talks about it," she said.
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    We've had leaks about the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, leaks that resulted in a the arrest of one Pakistani, Dr. Shakil Afridi, who helped us get DNA from Osama bin Laden. Afridi now faces 33 years in a Pakistani prison due to leaks that came from the U.S. There have been leaks about the President choosing targets for drone striks and about a CIA sting operation in Yemen. There have been details leaked about the US role in launching computer viruses against Iran's nuclear program.

    It's been clear that at least some of these leaks came from people who were in the situation room. The leaks have come out about different national security details over a period of time. And it wasn't until the outrage after the Stuxnet story that we even heard anything from the Obama.

    "The notion that my White House would purposely release classified national security information is offensive. It's wrong," he said.

    But those of us who remember the Clinton era remember how important it is to parse the langauge of a lawyer/president. And those words are not a denial; they're just a statement of how offensive or wrong it would be to think that his White House was leaking information on purpose. How come we didn't get any more forceful denial? And since we have had such leaks dating back a year to the raid on Osama Bin Laden's compound, how come no one has been prosecuted or even fired?

    Obama only came out to denounce such leaks once there was bipartisan criticism. And now a Democrat is saying that the leaks had to come from the White House. Well, he is president and it is up to him to be the one to clean house and get rid of those who leaked such information. And if the leaks are coming from the Situation Room as is clear from some of these stories which report dialogue and reactions of people in that room, then the house-cleaning has to go pretty far up. And we can decided whether or not to believe Feinstein's assurances that the President isn't at all involved but some of his top officials decided to leak details for stories to make him look like a tough leader without his even being aware of it before or after the stories appeared.

    Just where is that the buck stops, Mr. President?

    http://betsyspage.blogspot.com/2012/...uck-stops.html

    You bring up a great point, Betsy. Never have we seen a more irresponsible President. Even if you give Obama the benefit of the doubt that his motives are pure, he has utterly failed in providing this country with leadership. He spends more time golfing than he spends with the Jobs Council or on fixing the Economy. He spends more time fund raising to keep his job than he spends doing his job. He is self-absorbed and divisive. I can't think of a single redeeming quality that he brings to the office of President.
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    Update (DP): This “the direct quote that the opposition just repeated was inaccurate” thing is running rampant.

    Today, Feinstein tried to reel her Monday comments back in http://washingtonexaminer.com/senato...aks/article/25 and managed to be upset with Mitt Romney for repeating them (that sounds familiar): http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...ly-quoting-him

    Today the senator’s office issued the following statement arguing that no, she was misunderstood:

    I am disappointed by the statements made by Mr. Romney today regarding a question I was asked yesterday at the World Affairs Council.

    I was asked whether the White House might be responsible for recent national security leaks. I stated that I did not believe the president leaked classified information. I shouldn’t have speculated beyond that, because the fact of the matter is I don’t know the source of the leaks.
    The rest here. http://washingtonexaminer.com/senato...rticle/2503040

    If Feinstein does in fact just blurt out incorrect, inaccurate or uncorroborated information for no particular reason, maybe somebody should reconsider her seat on the Senate Intelligence Committee. This kind of demonstration of such uncontrolled impulses could lead people to believe that perhaps she’s one of the sources of the leaks.

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    (clap! clap! clap!) That sound you hear? That’s the sound of the MSM collectively covering their eyes, ears, and mouth.

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    Well of course the leaks came from the Administration. Obama would never have passed the background checks a security clearance requires, except he got elected. He doesn’t know what to do with classified information.

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    There were obvious leaks, but they weren’t from the White House,” he (Axelrod) said in an interview with ABC in early June.
    They could have been from a person inside the White House, but the house itself wasn’t talking.

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    In other news, the earth is not flat. We already knew the WH is the only place they could have come from – and Eric Holdout is gonna get to the bottom of it. No, reeealy. Right.

    Proof positive “Senate Intelligence” is a contradiction of terms.

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    “Colleague?” MM is kinder than I am toward this windbag!! I think I was the only commentor that was outraged about the shotgun remark and posted my concern here. These people don’t seem to realize the power of suggestion on the weak minded voters that are their followers!!Obama has inflicted more harm to this country than Al Quida and all the gulf wars combined. He is a traitor and clearly guilty of treason!! Eventually this will all be proven!! True Grit needs to be very cautious and careful in the meantime!!
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    Special Operations OPSEC targets Obama for reckless intelligence leaks
    Posted by Dan Spencer ~ Thursday, August 16th at 11:30AM EDT

    A group of former special operations and C.I.A. officers accuse President Obama of spiking the football — taking credit for killing Osama bin Laden, and recklessly leaking intelligence information about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and other security matters solely to gain political advantage.

    The Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund Inc, http://opsecteam.org/index.html argues that high level Obama administration’s leaks are damaging U.S. security. They make their case in a very well done documentary-style video called “Dishonorable Disclosures: How Leaks and Politics Threaten National Security.”

    http://youtu.be/UlfBlsigaLk

    The good folks at Special Operations OPSEC see their mission as stopping President Obama and others, from politically capitalizing on U.S. national security operations and secrets, which allows the special operations and intelligence capabilities to be degraded., and educating the public about the importance and necessity of Operational Security. The video does a good job of doing that.

    The Former Special Operations and C.I.A. personnel are upset about the “avalanche” of leaks obviously intended to politically benefit Obama:

    •Immediate disclosure of the killing of Osama bin Laden rather than waiting to exploit the information taken by SEAL Team Six.

    •Disclosure and special access to Department of Defense and C.I.A details about the Osama bin Laden operation to Hollywood filmmakers.

    •Disclosure of the unit, the cover name, The aircraft that were used, the number of raiders, and how the team entered and moved around the grounds.

    •Disclosure of details pertaining to the intelligence gathering before the raid, including the identity of the Pakistani doctor who provided information.

    •Disclosure of U.S. and Israeli involvement in the computer viruses which targeted Iran’s nuclear program.

    •Disclosure of a joint U.S./British/Israeli covert operation that planted a spy in Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen, whose information stopped a terrorist bomb plot against a U.S.-bound airliner.

    •Disclosure of the secret Obama “Kill List.”
    OPSEC is not alone in being outraged about the Obama Administration’s national security leaks. Former Democrat Senator Bob Kerrey, took Obama to task for his decision to disclose some details of the Osama bin Laden operation: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/p...#ixzz23iQkuME3

    “By describing certain methods — the name of the unit involved, the kinds of equipment employed, the nature of intelligence collected and techniques of insertion and extraction used in the operation — the President violated a key rule of clandestine work.”
    Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has also gone after Obama for controversial leaks of classified information, saying “I think the White House has to understand that some of this is coming from their ranks.” She was even tougher during an appearance on CNN’s “Situation Room” program: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0712/78881.html

    What we’re seeing…is an Anschluss, an avalanche of leaks. And it’s very, very disturbing. You know, it’s dismayed our allies. It puts American lives in jeopardy. It puts our nation’s security in jeopardy.”

    What we’re seeing…is an Anschluss, an avalanche of leaks. And it’s very, very disturbing. You know, it’s dismayed our allies. It puts American lives in jeopardy. It puts our nation’s security in jeopardy.” http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/...-f_646731.html

    http://www.redstate.com/california_y...ligence-leaks/

    I’ve said before on this site that I was on two black sites for a defense contractor….and heaven help me if I ever said one word about any thing that I was working on. That was back in the days when our national security meant something and the people believed in America.

    Now…every day on Drudge…Obama…trying to pick up votes from whomever…drops another security leak. For instance…we do not need to know…i.e., the general public, when and if Israel is going to take out Iran. We don’t need to see plans…..this is STUPID.

    Test flights of special operations vehicles…we do not need to know about…nor what they are armed with…Sorry Libertarians I believe in a STRONG AMERICAN DEFENSE. This guy is using our military for political advantage and….really…he’s committing an act of treason by discussing policies for the world to see.

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    Obamao is to give aid and comfort to the enemy. Besides being devoid of morals and ethics, Obamao has proven he hates the United States. Obama, thy name is treason.

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    Give credit where credit is due Mr. President. Credit the small businessperson for building his business. Credit the military for taking Bin Laden out.

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    Let’s keep an eye on this.
    I have sent the link of the video to everyone I know – and then some.


    Those who had once simpered: “I don’t want to destroy the rich, I only want to seize a little of their surplus to help the poor, just a little, they’ll never miss it!” – then, later, had snapped: “The tycoons can stand being squeezed; they’ve amassed enough to last them for three generations” – then, later, had yelled: “Why should the people suffer while businessmen have reserves to last a year?” – now were screaming: “Why should we starve while some people have reserves to last a week?” – Atlas Shrugged

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    that this next, most important election, is going to be bad!

    Call it a gut feeling, but reading the opponents, and understanding that Obama/Axelrod is willing to do ANYTHING to stay in power. These progressives have never been closer to their goal and they’re not going to go away quietly.

    In order to keep this election out of the courts, we the people MUST come out in droves to vote for Romney/Ryan so there is no doubt as to who wins.

    “Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.”
    ~~ Patrick Henry
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    There are operations that took place in the cold war some 30 years ago and even more that have never been revealed, even though today the information would not hurt anybody. That any president would use these top secret events and intelligence for political gain is beyond all reasoning. Some of us, American and allied , now retired have consulted with each other about these Obamanations and cannot remember one similar case with any president, Democrat or Republican, American or allied.
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    It is a strange administration that promises transparency, but is secretive with its citizens and loose-lipped with our enemies.

    That is the case of the Obama Administration. In the wake of the death of Osama bin Laden, the Obama Administration has behaved like a group of preteen girls- telling our secrets, but then qualifying it with, “Okay, but don’t tell anyone else.”

    In a new ad produced by Veterans for a Strong America, the leaking of classified material is discussed as these leaks have a face assigned to them, Special Operations Chief Aaron Vaughn, who was a member of SEAL Team Six and who was killed several days after the attack on the bin Laden compound. The Obama Administration, unbelievably, could not wait to blab to the world about who killed bin Laden- thus putting a target on the SEALs’ backs. In a recent interview, Aaron Vaughn’s mother stated, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...#ixzz28njQkw8h

    “Aaron called me and said, ‘Mom, you need to wipe your social media clean of any reference to me or any of my buddies. Just disconnect completely.’ He actually said to me, ‘Mom, there’s chatter, and all of our lives could be in danger, including yours’ … then I realized all of those families, you know, you’re talking about a community of around three hundred families who were all of a sudden made targets by this administration.”
    The SEAL Team was “outed” two days after the raid by Vice President Joe Biden. Two days- that’s how long our government could hold a secret. These clowns wouldn’t have lasted a day in the Cold War.

    And why were Vaughn and his fellow soldiers exposed? So that the Obama Administration could brag to film producers who killed bin Laden while telling the rest of America not to “spike the football.” http://dustinstockton.com/2012/08/na...alled-gutlass/ The Obama Administration gave the producers of “Zero Dark Thirty” access to classified materials. The movie is set to be released after the election. A National Geographic “documentary” (read: propaganda) about the killing of bin Laden is set to air two days before the election, and is being produced by Obama fundraiser, Harvey Weinstein. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...fore-november/

    Democrat or Republican, can we all agree that our soldiers deserve better than to be served up to our enemies by their very own government? This administration is either 90% treasonous and 10% stupid or the other way around- either way, we need a change in leadership.

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    October 17, 2012
    Leaks, Lies, and Libya: How Not to Inform a Nation
    By Larry Bailey


    While the current administration has strayed far from Barack Obama's 2008 campaign promise that it would be the most transparent government in history, nothing so points to its failure to keep that promise as have events of the past two years.

    Starting with the killing of Osama bin Laden in May 2011, the Obama administration has, in a very real sense, "informed" Americans of current events via selective and random leaks (many of them apparently unintentional). For example, on the day after the bin Laden mission, both the president and the vice president identified SEAL Team 6 as the unit executing the mission.

    One might call this a "leak in plain sight," but a leak it was, carrying with it every negative connotation in the word. From the perspective of my military mind, the identification of a specific unit as responsible for the death of bin Laden should, if it ever happened at all, have been the result of intelligence-gathering of the highest order on the part of America's al-Qaeda enemy. That information surely should not have been provided "free of charge" by the nation's commander-in-chief.

    What damage, one asks, did the release of that information cause to the national defense? One of the principal elements of information on the enemy, I was always taught, was the identification of the unit with which one was in closest contact (the technical term for this is "order of battle"). This is the most important element of the quintessential "know-your-enemy" adjuration. Armed with this gem of knowledge, one is enabled to exact revenge upon or counter future attacks by an enemy.

    How does this apply to SEAL Team 6? Simple -- al-Qaeda now does not have to spend the time or to expend the resources required to ferret out information about who killed its leader. In fact, it is a safe bet that even now, its planners are devising ways to exact revenge against the SEALs and their families. In my view, it is only a matter of time before these brave men and their loved ones become targets of international Islamic terror.

    A second discouraging element concerning the events surrounding the bin Laden mission was President Obama's claiming of virtually all the credit for the execution of the mission ("I directed the secretary of defense...," "I directed SEAL Team 6...," etc.). The penalty for Obama's "spiking the football" as he took credit for the bin Laden raid will, of course, be assessed on others.

    Recent insider accounts of the planning of the raid indicate that Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and the Joint Chiefs of Staff virtually ignored Obama when the time came to order the SEALs into action. At least two sources claim that he was playing golf when the raid was launched and that he was brought into the White House Situation Room and told of the mission only after the SEALs' task force had crossed into Pakistani airspace.

    Why was Obama not apprised of the launching of the raid? According to those same sources, it was because Valerie Jarrett, Obama's most trusted adviser, had on three previous occasions convinced the president not to launch an attack against bin Laden's compound, despite certain knowledge that he was "at home" and vulnerable. Secretary Panetta and his inner circle clearly understood that Obama would probably never authorize the attack.

    This situation mirrored that of the Maersk Alabama incident, in which that ship's captain, Richard Phillips, was being held hostage by three armed pirates in a Maersk Alabama lifeboat. It was only the assessment of the situation by all the on-scene U.S. personnel, the initiative of the commanding officer of the USS Bainbridge, and the marksmanship of the SEAL snipers aboard her that saved the life of Captain Phillips.

    The White House was, fortunately for Captain Phillips, kept out of the moment-to-moment decision-making process. The military was beginning to learn that Obama and his minions could not be depended on when crunch-time came, so they acted.

    Nevertheless, Obama clearly snatched as much glory unto himself as he thought he could get away with in the aftermath of the Maersk Alabama incident, despite the fact that he was not involved in any of the decision-making that led to the successful conclusion of the standoff.

    A more recent example of the Obama style of leadership is that of the events surrounding the September 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. So many lies have been told by administration figures, including the president himself, that the truth is becoming known only through Obama's other signature method of crisis management: leaks.

    Almost without exception, official utterances concerning the attack have been false or, at best, misleading. When it became known that the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans had been killed, the first description of the incident contended that the assault was simply the overreaction of a mob protesting a Mohammed-denigrating video. Obama himself stated that this was the case.

    It took the better part of a month, but gradually the truth became clear: the assault on the consulate was carried out on the eleventh anniversary of 9/11 by a Libyan offshoot of al-Qaeda. The assault was planned and executed with that date in mind, as has become increasingly apparent from unofficial sources within the Department of State and the U.S. intelligence community. In fact, there was no mob outside the consulate; the attack was a discrete event arising from nothing but hatred against America.

    So here we have the irony of leaked information providing an accurate account of how four Americans were sacrificed to the ineptitude of an administration that refused numerous requests by both the State Department and military personnel in Libya for a greater security presence in that chaotic country.

    Jennifer Rubin, writing in the Washington Post on October 12, sums up the Benghazi situation nicely: "The Libya debacle is not merely a case of inadequate security. It is a case of willful blindness to the progress of al-Qaeda in a locale that the Obama team had boasted was a grand success for its "leading from behind" strategy. The administration, despite every available bit of evidence, continued to cling to a false narrative, and to repeat that narrative to the public, because it refused to recognize that Libya was a terrorist victory, not a U.S. success story."

    Finally, and unbelievably, Americans are now being "treated" to a blatantly political movie, SEAL Team SIX: The Raid on bin-Laden (or The Raid), that blends lies and leaks into a deadly combination of political deception. The team writing and shooting the movie, working under the leadership of Obama sycophant/bundler Harvey Weinstein, was granted unprecedented access to highly classified information in the making of The Raid. This reportedly included viewing intelligence documents and interviewing SEALs who were on the raid itself.

    That such a paean to America's "Dear Leader" is being shown on national television (the National Geographic Channel) two days prior to the election is clearly no accident. It is, however, a predictable result of how Obama uses "information" -- an admixture of truth, lies, and leaks -- to produce a desirable political result.

    One has every reason to suspect that the movie will be both a witches' brew of political puffery and a confirmation of the observation that Barack Obama will stop at nothing to indulge his narcissism -- and to promote his re-election on November 6.

    One can only hope that the American public will recognize "The Raid" for what it is -- electioneering at the expense of truth.

    -Larry Bailey, Captain (SEAL), USN (Ret.)



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    The SEAL Team was “outed” two days after the raid by Vice President Joe Biden. Two days- that’s how long our government could hold a secret. These clowns wouldn’t have lasted a day in the Cold War.

    And why were Vaughn and his fellow soldiers exposed? So that the Obama Administration could brag to film producers who killed bin Laden while telling the rest of America not to “spike the football.” http://dustinstockton.com/2012/08/na...alled-gutlass/ The Obama Administration gave the producers of “Zero Dark Thirty” access to classified materials. The movie is set to be released after the election. A National Geographic “documentary” (read: propaganda) about the killing of bin Laden is set to air two days before the election, and is being produced by Obama fundraiser, Harvey Weinstein. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...fore-november/
    Senators say CIA may have 'misled' 'Zero Dark Thirty' filmmakers on torture issue

    Intelligence Committee makes formal request for documentation from the agency


    By Kimberly Dozier (AP) Thursday, Jan 3, 2013 8:26

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers are accusing the CIA of misleading the makers of the Osama bin Laden raid film, "Zero Dark Thirty," by telling them that harsh interrogation methods helped track down the terrorist mastermind.

    The film shows waterboarding and similar techniques as important to finding bin Laden in Pakistan, where he was killed by Navy SEALs.

    A three-year Senate investigation showed that such methods produced no useful intelligence. The CIA's acting director, Michael Morell, recently contradicted that, saying harsh techniques did produce some tips that led to bin Laden.

    In a letter to the CIA this week, Sens. Dianne Feinstein of California, John McCain of Arizona and others asked Morell to back up his claim and to share documents showing what the filmmakers were told.

    The CIA says it will cooperate.


    Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/news/senators-...kJlmLC4CVHJ.99
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