The President's visit to Afghanistan revealed much of what we know about him, and the liberal left anti-Americans he has surrounded himself with. But the real indication of what those people are really about was not so much Obama's speech doing what he can to reduce America's standing in the world, as much as how the White House blew the cover of the top CIA agent in Afghanistan. The person’s name was included on a list given to reporters during a visit to the country by President Barack Obama.
The name was then emailed by the White House press office to a distribution list of more than 6,000 recipients, mostly members of the US media.
The mistake did not come to light until the reporter who had filed from Afghanistan, the veteran Washington Post correspondent Scott Wilson, looked more closely at what he had sent and noticed the name and title.
“I drew it to their attention before they had noticed what had happened,” Wilson said.
“I asked the press official that was with us on the trip if they knew that the station chief had been identified in the list. That person said that they did not know that, but that because the list was provided by military, they assumed it was OK. By this time the list was out.
“Soon after, I think that they talked to their bosses, and realised that it was not OK. And they tried to figure out what to do about this, if there was a way to kind of un-ring the bell.”
The White House declined to comment.
It is extremely rare for a US intelligence operative to be outed by the US government. In 2003, someone inside the George W Bush administration exposed the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame, a month after her husband, the diplomat Joe Wilson, had publicly questioned the administration’s case for the Iraq war. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, former chief of staff to then-vice-president Dick Cheney, was convicted of obstruction of justice and perjury in connection with the case.
Will this latest scandal also result in charges?
Of course not. They will say they are sorry, the media will down play it, and then it will be the progressive business as usual.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
No comments:
Post a Comment