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A D.C. whodunit: Who leaked and why? -Bob Woodward's scoop on Afghan report raises questions
Politico ^
| 22 September 20009
| BEN SMITH - Politico
Posted on 09/28/2009 3:33:19 PM PDT by underthestreetlite
Bob Woodwards Monday-morning exclusive on a 66-page report from Gen. Stanley McChrystal to President Barack Obama about Afghanistan policy was a rite of passage for the new administration: the first major national security leak and a sure sign that the celebrated Washington Post reporter has penetrated yet another administration.
White House officials greeted the leak with a grimace, but none suggested theyd begin a witch hunt for the leaker. Woodward is famous for his access to the principals themselves he recently traveled to Afghanistan with National Security Adviser James Jones and leak hunters couldnt expect with confidence that theyd find themselves disciplining just an undisciplined junior staffer.
But inside the White House and out, the leak touched off another familiar Washington ritual: speculation about the leakers identity and motives.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; bobwoodward; genesperling; leak; partisanmediashills; report; sequester; woodward
To: underthestreetlite
Who dunit? - Don't Know - but does it really matter now.
Why? - This is a matter of national security and the nation ought to know
To: underthestreetlite
Does the person who wrote that live in Washington DC and have ANY CLUE WHATSOEVER the way things work here? And only the village idiot wouldn’t be able to figure out where he got that story. Leaks are the mother’s milk of DC journalism, and Woodward is the biggest consumer thereof in the entire mediasphere.
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posted on
09/28/2009 3:39:31 PM PDT
by
La Lydia
To: underthestreetlite
I dunno whodunit, but I have my suspicions...
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posted on
09/28/2009 3:41:14 PM PDT
by
Kenton
To: underthestreetlite
But inside the White House and out, the leak touched off another familiar Washington ritual: speculation about the leakers identity and motives. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Does anybody recall any MSM interest (much less, speculation) about a leaker's identity or motives during the Bush administration?
Anyone?
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posted on
09/28/2009 3:42:47 PM PDT
by
okie01
(THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
To: Kenton
nice suspicious guess there, i’d say.
not so nice a picture tho!
To: okie01
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posted on
09/28/2009 3:43:55 PM PDT
by
Redleg Duke
("Don't fire unless fired upon, but it they mean to have a war, let it begin here." J Parker, 1775)
To: underthestreetlite
White House officials greeted the leak with a grimace, but none suggested theyd begin a witch hunt for the leaker
It was leaked with the full blessing of the 12th imam himself.
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posted on
09/28/2009 3:47:11 PM PDT
by
Electric Graffiti
(Yonder stands your orphan with his gun)
To: Kenton
"I dunno whodunit, but I have my suspicions..." Hysterical. And, probably right.
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posted on
09/28/2009 3:51:13 PM PDT
by
OldDeckHand
(No Socialized Medicine, No Way, No How, No Time)
To: okie01
To: underthestreetlite
and 0bama takes another one in the.................................HA ha!!!
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posted on
09/28/2009 4:15:51 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
To: Kenton
Whoo dumitttt?
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posted on
09/28/2009 6:31:40 PM PDT
by
Leo Carpathian
(fffffFRrrreeeeepppeeee-ssed!)
To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; blueyon; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; ...
Note: this topic is from 22 September 2009. Also note, that Greenspan story pinged earlier was 2007, I forgot to mention that. [blush] Thanks underthestreetlite.
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09/22/2010 7:21:19 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
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