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Gee, you don’t suppose they leaked this information to make Obama look good
, do you? Ironically, Obama’s stooge Eric Holder supposedly is
investigating the source of the leak.
Internal State Department emails reportedly show the White House
cooperated with a journalist whose revelations about an anti-Iran
cyberattack are now the subject of a high-profile leak probe.
The Washington Times reported Monday on emails, from late 2011 to early
2012, obtained by the nonprofit Freedom Watch after the group filed suit in
federal court. They detail discussions New York Times reporter David Sanger
had with the State Department before the publication of a book that revealed
classified information about the so-called Stuxnet computer worm, which
targeted Iran’s nuclear facilities.
In one email, Sanger reportedly pressed the State Department to
cooperate by noting the help he’d gotten from other wings of the Obama
administration.
“I’m getting a bit concerned about the pace of our interviews — or
lack of pace, to be more precise — for the book,” Sanger reportedly said
in the October 2011 message to a State Department press officer. “The White
House is steaming away; I’ve seen [National Security Adviser Thomas E.]
Donilon many times and a raft of people below. Doing well at the Pentagon.
But on the list I sent you starting on Sept. 12 we’ve scheduled nothing,
and chapters are getting into final form.”
Donilon was the national security adviser at the time, before leaving
the administration in July. He was replaced by former U.N. Ambassador Susan
Rice. The nature of his discussions with Sanger are unclear.
Fox News confirmed in late June that another high-ranking official,
retired Gen. James Cartwright, is under investigation for allegedly leaking
classified information on the Iran program. Cartwright was vice chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time.
Larry Klayman, director of Freedom Watch, told The Washington Times that
the emails show the Obama administration had a “super-close relationship”
with Sanger and was “literally force-feeding him.”
At the same time, the Justice Department is investigating that and other
security leaks, after having appointed two U.S. attorneys to probe them
last year.
When questioned, White House spokesthing Jay Carney said he couldn’t
comment because there’s an ongoing investigation. Well, he didn’t really
say that, but that’s what he’ll say when he’s asked, if anyone is so
inclined to ask. Would be nice if someone dared to ask Hillary Clinton about
this as well. |
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