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Obama says "no apologies" over U.S. security leak probe
Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 5/16/13 | Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton

Posted on 05/16/2013 6:47:02 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Thursday he makes "no apologies" for his concern about leaks to the media that could compromise U.S. national security or put American military and intelligence officers at risk.

Obama expressed complete confidence in Attorney General Eric Holder and declined to comment on the Justice Department's seizure of Associated Press phone records, part of a probe into media leaks about a Yemen-based plot to bomb a U.S. airliner.

"Leaks related to national security can put people at risk," Obama said at a news conference.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ap; doj; leak; noapologies; obama; probe; scandal; security; yemen
He sure knows how to step in it.

Yeah, apologies.. they really screw up agendas something fierce.

Apologize here, alpologize there,, after awhile folks think your one apologetic wimp .. or worse.. nothing but another weasly politician.

1 posted on 05/16/2013 6:47:02 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

Yeah, if anyone is going to endanger national security, it’s him. The usurper hates anyone usurping what he has already assumed as his own.


2 posted on 05/16/2013 6:51:21 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: NormsRevenge

Oh Hell,

Let’s BOW DEEPLY TO SAUDI SCUM!!

This stupid kenyan is nothing more than a saudi pig.

Hey, Barry, we KNOW WHO YOU ARE.


3 posted on 05/16/2013 6:52:27 PM PDT by ConradofMontferrat (According to mudslymz, my handle is a HATE CRIME. And I HOPE they don't like it.)
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To: NormsRevenge

He won’t admit to guilt because he can’t allow Holder to go under the bus. Holder is not likely to go down quietly.


4 posted on 05/16/2013 6:53:00 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: NormsRevenge
The IRS and AP scandals are either a smoke screen for Benghazi or attacks by his enemies.
5 posted on 05/16/2013 6:56:06 PM PDT by tractorman (I never miss a chance to tweak a liberal.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Impeachment File on arrogant, Benghazi Coward B. Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, a legal citizen of the sovereign Nation of Indonesia.


6 posted on 05/16/2013 6:58:20 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: NormsRevenge
"Leaks related to national security can put people at risk," Obama said at a news conference.

Demonstrable criminals, proven liars, don't get to decide what constitutes national security.

Campaigning 24/7 365, self-serving or butt-saving is NOT national security.

7 posted on 05/16/2013 7:00:18 PM PDT by publius911 (Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)
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To: Graewoulf

Why, he’ll answer nobody: he professes not
answering; speaking is for beggars, he
wears his tongue in’s arms.
Troilus and Cressida 3.3.280-1, Thersites to Achilles

ya gotta love Shakespeare


8 posted on 05/16/2013 7:01:44 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: NormsRevenge

BUMP.


9 posted on 05/16/2013 7:09:39 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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MSM, including the A/P, "shrugged" and laughed it off.
It was just about us, back then.

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10 posted on 05/16/2013 7:10:36 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: onyx

Marxists NEVER apologize. They just place their big fat boot on your neck.


11 posted on 05/16/2013 7:10:56 PM PDT by gathersnomoss
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To: NormsRevenge

There was no security leak. The CIA knew the AP had the story, AND WAS NEGOTIATING with the AP as to when the story could be released. The Justice Department made a case out of nothing.


12 posted on 05/16/2013 7:28:12 PM PDT by popdonnelly (The right to self-defense is older than the Constitution.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Obama’s agenda: Apologize for America, but don’t apologize for your own administration. Got it.


13 posted on 05/16/2013 7:32:22 PM PDT by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: the_Watchman

How wonderful, Obama is going to play the game of defiance in which he acts heroic by never apologizing and protecting his buddies. He kinda figures that it’s too soon to throw them under the bus, because that would come back to haunt them later when they start writing best-selling books proclaiming their innocence and claiming they were just taking orders from Kenya’s commander-in-chief.


14 posted on 05/16/2013 7:47:58 PM PDT by TexGrill (Don't mess with Texas)
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To: tractorman

The IRS and AP scandals are either a smoke screen for Benghazi or attacks by his enemies.


The AP scandal is the worst for the administration. They ticked off their biggest fans - fans with the power to finally practice their trade. We will see if what happens.

I say it’s the worst, because like so many other scandals in this administration the media usually covers it up for them and diverts attention when they are not actively defending Obama. Without the usual cover from a fawning press the other two scandals may continue.

As far as investigating leaks - when will they prosecute Biden for running his mouth?


15 posted on 05/16/2013 8:17:21 PM PDT by volunbeer (We must embrace austerity or austerity will embrace us)
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To: NormsRevenge
arrogant Obama photo: Obama the Arrogant arrogantObama.jpg "We are never wrong."
16 posted on 05/16/2013 8:45:50 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: NormsRevenge

[[President Barack Obama said on Thursday he makes “no apologies” for his concern about leaks to the media that could compromise U.S. national security or put American military and intelligence officers at risk.]]

But yet he hires a known worthless anti-American who put soldier’s lives at risk as his secretary of state?” This man is shameless! He also was silent when CBS ran a story revealing our militaries sniper’s sniping tacticsa, which directly endangersd our soldeirs in Iraq- not a peep out of him then-


17 posted on 05/16/2013 8:55:14 PM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: tumblindice
Both my sides are magnificent, but this one is even better! Feel free to revel in my magnificence/ arrogant Obama photo: Condescension Obama-close-up-arrogant-sneer1.jpg Yes, it's true: We are the One you've been waiting for. I'm ready for my close-up now ....
18 posted on 05/16/2013 9:02:12 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Amazing - “For people to express concern about leaks at a time when I still have 60,000 troops in Afghanistan...” - not “the United States still has” or even “my administration still has”, but “I still have” - yet ask the guy about spying on a hundred AP reporters and he knows nothing, and ask him about the IRS politically targeting taxpayers, and all he knows is what he reads in the newspapers - too bad he never learned to accept responsibility along with the rights and power he craves....


19 posted on 05/16/2013 9:12:10 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: SpaceBar

It’s amazing how many of the Bard’s quotations you can find to apply to current events. Shakespeare was a keen student of human psychology.


20 posted on 05/16/2013 9:25:23 PM PDT by River Hawk
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