CIA Director Tells Workforce To Stop Talking About bin Laden Raid — Or Face Legal Action -- Washington Post/AP
WASHINGTON — CIA director Leon Panetta is warning his employees that leakers will be investigated and possibly prosecuted after a flurry of reports in the media about the technology and methods used to track and ultimately kill Osama bin Laden.
In a memo obtained by The Associated Press, Panetta told staff Wednesday that the disclosure of classified information to anyone not cleared for it — reporters, friends, colleagues in other agencies or former CIA officers — can endanger lives.
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My Comment: This same threat of legal action should be passed along to the staff in the White House (where probably most of these leaks come from) .... but I suspect that this is not going to happen.
Oh by the way .... details of this raid can be read at the AP (the link is here).
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