Article

2010-03-27 Home Front: WoT

Is a D.O.D. Insider Leaking Classified Information to CNN?

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by tipper 2010-03-27 11:24|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Must have been a CNN hacker or wannabe, cause we all know that the CRU of the University of East Anglia files were hacked not leaked. Or is it when its something the MSM touches, its leaked vice when its something that appears on the net, it's hacked. /sarc off

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-03-27 12:14|| 2010-03-27 12:14|| Front Page Top

#2
On Wednesday, CNNs Pentagon correspondent, Barbara Starr reported on multiple, highly sensitive documents that had been provided to CNN and which detail valuable, strategic intelligence gathered by the Department of Defense in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

It should come as no surprise that Starr made sure to highlight all of the juicy details. She not only revealed U.S. knowledge of a covert meeting between Hamid Karzais brother and Mullah Baradar (a top Taliban leader who was later arrested in Pakistan), as well as a secret audio message played to Taliban commanders from reclusive Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, but she went on to inform the entire world that the United States has a safe house in Kabul (used by members of the Haqqani terror network) currently under surveillance.

Posted by Parabellum 2010-03-27 13:05|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/ 2010-03-27 13:05|| Front Page Top

#3 More grist for the mill of those planning vengeance on the MSM.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-03-27 13:42|| 2010-03-27 13:42|| Front Page Top

#4 luckily it was on CNN, so it wasn't widely seen

Posted by Frank G 2010-03-27 15:00|| 2010-03-27 15:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Interesting that President Obama's DoD doesn't get a pass from CNN. And as Frank G. says, not many will have seen it. But, will the New York Times, et al, pick up on the story?

Posted by trailing wife 2010-03-27 15:28|| 2010-03-27 15:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Jesu, Joseph and Mary, when will we arrest and prosecute people, the leaker and the reporter, for doing this? God only knows what lives were risked or lost for this stupid bi*ch to get a story.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2010-03-27 15:49|| 2010-03-27 15:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Interesting that President Obama's DoD doesn't get a pass from CNN

In this case, it's the effective part of DoD that CNN has deliberately undercut. No surprise, alas.

Posted by lotp 2010-03-27 17:04|| 2010-03-27 17:04|| Front Page Top

23:57 Alaska Paul
23:00 JohnQC
22:51 Beavis
22:42 Pappy
22:37 Not a retard...
22:36 JohnQC
22:18 Cornsilk Blondie
22:10 lotp
22:07 Anguper Hupomosing9418
22:05 Anguper Hupomosing9418
22:03 Secret Asian Man
22:01 lex
22:01 Secret Asian Man
21:55 Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo)
21:51 JohnQC
21:32 JohnQC
21:27 JohnQC
21:22 JohnQC
21:17 Deacon Blues
21:14 Deacon Blues
21:14 Grunter
21:12 JohnQC
21:04 Dave D.
21:03 JohnQC