Mitt Romney accused President Obama’s White House Tuesday of leaking classified national security secrets, citing a similar charge by the Democratic chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
But shortly after Romney delivered his speech at the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention in Reno, the intelligence chair, Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, backed off her earlier suggestion that someone on Obama’s staff was the source of the leak. And, she said, she regretted being used by the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
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The White House is a sieve of leaks. Remember after Osama bin Laden was killed the WH leaked so much info to Hollywood to make a movie that congress complained that the producers there knew more about the raid than they did?
The doctor In pakistan that went into BinLaden's compound to get his DNA was thrown under the bus by this administration, he's now rotting in jail for 33 years. Nice going
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It's pretty obvious the leaks are from the White House and that Feinstein was pressure to retract her statement. This administration have done this before. The mayor of Newark had to retract his statement over Bain.
Sen. Feinstein is flat out prevaricating with her claim that she regrets - as the Globe's stringer put it "being used" - by Romney. But the old gal said what she said about the White House and leaks the previous day and got caught up in her initial honest appraisal. Now, if she had evidence, that is one thing since she is the Intelligence Committee chairman. If she did not have evidence, she was merely shooting her mouth off like any humdrum political hack. The material about the computer viruses being inserted into Iranian systems to damage their nuclear progam was truly significant, and seems quite dangerous as it betrays cover for active U.S. amd/or Israeli cyberweaponry. Yet there are apparently those who feel that the disclosure that Barry the O has become the publicly acknowledged American assassin-in-chief (via the New York Times) is more important. That disclosure's alleged seriousness compared to the computer intel is hard to understand. It is obvious and logical that somebody fawning over Obama's possible re-election bragged about Barry's saying 'yes' to a suggestion of popping Osama Bin Laden with a deadly lead pellet. The story smacks of an Obama croney making an effort to create a masculine militaristic image, diametrically opposed to the President's usual role as a left-listed softie with his obsessive concentration on health care and other domestic human resources issues. Was it a guess by a leaker that Barry the O turned virtual killer? Or was someone present in the room when the decision was taken, or at least in the chain of command while the kill Osama operation was underway the decider to let the nation know who really gives the presumably covert murder orders in the White House situation room?
The Globe's removal policy is incomprehensible. I get deleted for saying that Senator Feinstein is a liberal Democrat who has criticized the WH for leaking national security secrets?
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The Chicago gang will do absolutely ANYTHING to try and make this president look re-electable, although most voters know another Obama term would be devastating for the economy, lack of job growth and do-nothing Democrats.
It is likely that the Glob put an intern with a left-listed leaning in charge of the deletion function... Such interns are sometimes caught answering the Globe's city room telephone and acting as if they are security guards for the on-duty editor or any person a caller seeks to speak with...
The Globe itself is ALSO a party to these LEAKS of classified information. Every day, the Globe continues to post on Boston.com EXPLICIT details (including COLOR PHOTOS) about the bin Laden operation. Where did the Globe get this information?
"It's obvious where Gates, who knows about this stuff, thought and knew where the leaks were coming up. And I think it does play -- I mean, if it were an isolated incident it would not have any political effect. But it plays into the theme of Obama putting himself and reelection above the country," syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer said on FOX News' "Special Report" tonight. "Clearly if these things were leaked to make him look tough on national defense, help him in the reelection at the expense of what Feinstein herself has said, great damage to American national security, that fits with the Keystone pipeline decision, the decision to withdrawal the troops in Afghanistan in the middle of the fighting season now rather than what the military recommended, after election day. All these other decisions which make the president look as if he's subordinates the interest of the nation to his own interests," Krauthammer said.