GOP Senators To White House: Stop Leaking National Security Secrets -- Washington Free Beacon
A group of Republican senators is demanding to know why the White House continues to leak to the press highly classified information that “stands in direct contradiction to the information briefed to congressional oversight committees,” according to a letter sent Friday to President Barack Obama.
Senior Obama administration officials have taken to the press in recent weeks to provide anonymous and often highly classified information to reporters in an effort to bolster the president’s national security credentials following a deadly attack in Libya that left four Americans dead, the lawmakers claim.
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My Comment: The cynic in me tells me that this is the tea kettle telling the coffee pot that it is black. But the GOP senators do have a point .... in all my years of following national security issues, I have never seen the quantity and quality of the leaks that are coming from this White House. From Wikileaks to intel on the Bin Laden raid .... this has been a gold mine for someone like me who likes to read about secrets. But what has been hilarious with all of these leaks is the media's response .... consistently saying the same thing .... that no one is leaking to them, but the info that they are getting is through hard work and analysis.
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