Posted on 05/25/2014 6:00:05 PM PDT by jimbo123
The CIA’s top officer in Kabul was exposed Saturday by the White House when his name was inadvertently included on a list provided to news organizations of senior U.S. officials participating in President Obama’s surprise visit with U.S. troops.
The White House recognized the mistake and quickly issued a revised list that did not include the individual, who had been identified on the initial release as the “Chief of Station” in Kabul, a designation used by the CIA for its highest-ranking spy in a country.
The disclosure marked a rare instance in which a CIA officer working overseas had his cover — the secrecy meant to protect his actual identity — pierced by his own government. The only other recent case came under significantly different circumstances, when former CIA operative Valerie Plame was exposed as officials of the George W. Bush administration sought to discredit her husband, a former ambassador and fierce critic of the decision to invade Iraq.
The Post is withholding the name of the CIA officer at the request of Obama administration officials who warned that the officer and his family could be at risk if the name were published. The CIA and the White House declined to comment.
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Stupid is as stupid does.
How long before the name leaks? How many reporters have it?
The disclosure marked a rare instance in which a CIA officer working overseas had his cover — the secrecy meant to protect his actual identity — pierced by his own government. The only other recent case came under significantly different circumstances, when former CIA operative Valerie Plame was exposed as officials of the George W. Bush administration sought to discredit her husband, a former ambassador and fierce critic of the decision to invade Iraq.
No leftist bias in that report, huh? Please.
It wasn’t a mistake. It was a calculation.
This is a threat to others.
She wasn't an operative. She was a mid-level bureaucrat that had no "cover".
Notice how the Post had to stick a "blame Bush" in there?
Let’s call it what it is..........Treason....
Who believes that military officials provided a list that included the Kabul CIA Station Chief's name?
Whoops....
Plame hadn’t been in the field for years. And she was no station chief.
In contrast this person is station chief in one of the most strategic places in the world.
Think the left will go after the person responsible like they went after Cheney.
I wonder what he did to deserve that. Oh, never mind.
Benghazied.
We have buffoons running this country. Of course they won’t release the person’s name - this is a Deomoncratic Administration. I loathe the MSM with a passion.
The Obama administration makes the Keystone Kops look squared away.
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