U.S. Rethinks Intelligence Sharing After Leaks Anger Obama -- Washington TimesPresident Obama is angry over recent public disclosures of classified information in Washington, and the intelligence community is re-evaluating the post-Sept. 11 push for greater intelligence-sharing, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Wednesday.
"We are working on information-sharing initiatives across the board," Mr. Clapper said in a speech. "But the classic dilemma of need to share versus need to know is still with us. And I would observe that the Wikileaks episode represents what I would consider a big yellow flag. I think it is going to have a very chilling effect on the need to share."
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My Comment: To his credit, President Obama deserves recognition that maybe greater intelligence-sharing may result in a greater number of leaks being released to the public .... leaks that may endanger U.S. security. But .... this unfortunately avoids the real big issue which is that intelligence secrets by their nature are very hard to keep under wraps, and in the 24/7 internet universe very easy to transmit and publicized.
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