Posted on 09/06/2008 9:35:36 AM PDT by freepersup
Journalist Bob Woodward discusses "secret operational capabilities" against militia and insurgent leaders in Iraq, and spying on Iraq's prime minister.
(Excerpt) Read more at cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com ...
If it’s secret, how does he know it? And more important why is he telling everyone?
susie
Oh how I long for the good old days where this guy would be receiving mail at a little federally run motel in Kansas.
scum
Great, leftist media continue to work overtime trying to harm US national security and military operations!! How many American lives will be endangered if/when this info endangers military relationships and operations in Iraq and elsewhere??!!???
Umm would this be the spying that the Iraqis said might cause them to terminate their friendship with us?
Is this Woodward’s fault?
Woodward is describing a non-secret, in an attempt to discredit the surge.
This book has bad timing
The surge has worked the war is over.
In this book he almost exclusively interviewed white house staff, including the President, VP and other top level cabinet officials. So this disclosure had to be made by one of them, and we know its not a typical government rat by the fact that none of the details were given to Woodward, just the programs existence
Someone should quiz Woodward in detail on his motives for publishing what he himself describes as a secret.
It’s the responsibility of those entrusted with classified information to not disclose it to unauthorized individuals. If someone leaked this info to Woodward, and it is classified, that person should be investigated and given the appropriate administrative or criminal penalty.
“scum”
Scum-inmate sounds pretty good too.
I have never understood how people can get away with publishing secrets. Even more puzzling is why the American people don’t shun them at the very least.
susie
Even if his interviews were heavily focused upon the WH that does not come close to proving the “source” for this was in the WH. A guy like Woodstein has tons of sources and any lib in DoD or CIA or a number of other agencies could be a source for this. Not saying it couldn’t be someone in the WH, just that we don’t know much at this point.
They should, but as an AMerican citizen, he has a responsibility not to also leak truly classified information. PErhaps not legally but ethically. Oops...I forgot, he clearly has no ethics, just an ego.
susie
Woodward and the rest of his cronies should be tried for treason against the United States of America. You won't see these cowards going to Russia, Iran, N.Korea, Cuba, or Syria and exposing their National secrets. Woodward and cronies would simply disappear, hell they would not even attempt to that in Israel either.
They love to destroy this great Country from within. It is people like Woodward that have cost many of my fellow Brother in arms lives, and he had better hope and pray that some day I never run into that piece of raw $hit, I will stick my jump boot so far up his a$$ he will be tasting leather!
Yeah! The Sandy Burger treatment! Does anyone know what he really did steal?
When are they going to have McCain and Palin on??
No, they just go over there and consort with the enemy:
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