Posted on 01/15/2015 7:59:13 PM PST by Olog-hai
Former national security adviser Condoleezza Rice told jurors Thursday she was stunned to learn that a classified mission to thwart Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions—now at the heart of a criminal leak trial—had been disclosed to a reporter.
Rice testified for the prosecution in U.S. District Court at the trial of ex-CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling, 47, of O’Fallon, Missouri, who is charged with illegally disclosing details of the program to New York Times reporter James Risen. Sterling denies leaking any information to Risen.
While Rice’s testimony helped establish the importance of the classified program in question, her testimony did not implicate Sterling in any way as the leaker. …
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Leaks , just wait until Obama and his Czars are out ,you’ll see leaks
She seems “stunned” most of the time..
Others seem to be more confused and outraged.
I know who’s getting the blame, but I wonder who really did the leaking ?
Based only on the article, why did they prosecute this guy? Maybe they are retaliating against him because he sued the CIA.
She was also stunned when Alabama and FSU got their butts stomped.
Not “stunned”, “stuned”. This is FR after all.
day...stoned?
The rest of us are stunned they believed this asinine stunt would work. The duplicitous former Soviet scientist handed them the plans for a compact warhead. All they require now is the fissile material. Given their cooperation with North Korea on missile and nuclear technology, they’re likely a lot closer to having a deployable weapon.
Another James Risen source for his book is Tyler Drumheller.
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