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Fifth Column
Is NYT Wash Post harming intelligence work?
2010-07-17
From the article:
I have obtained this document sent by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. It appears the Washington Post is about to push the bounds of intelligence reporting. The intelligence agency seems concerned. See letter below. More coming later.
Click the link to see a photo of a letter directing companies that are doing top secret work for the us on how to respond to the upcoming action by the WaPo. If I were advertising in the WaPo, I would be having a serious talk with their executives over this one.
Posted by:gorb

#11  This sort of thing explains a lot about the Russian Spy Case. They don't have to do any spying themselves, all they have to do is money laundering and make suggestions and we'll do all the espionage to ourselves.
Posted by: Things From Snowy Mountains   2010-07-17 17:49  

#10  We will see what the WaPo rolls out tomorrow, and then continues to dribble out over time. If as has been suggested they are threatening to list the locations where highly classified work is being done, along with some sense of what that work entails, the potential harm is immeasurable.

And the WaPo knows that. My guess is that, among other things, this represents a hard shift left for the paper similar to what they attempted with Newsweek, i.e. that they are angling for a national / international subscription base as well as for impact on the upcoming elections.

After all, this is nicely poised to deflect attention from Obama's failings, stir up outrage over 'excessive defense spending' and give the hard left clear marching orders re: where to protest and disrupt, which workers to follow home and harass/intimidate/threaten, and maybe where to try a bit of sabotage.

That it also constitutes a map for self-organizing jihadis is just a bonus so far as the WaPo is concerned.
Posted by: lotp   2010-07-17 17:41  

#9  Mods, thanks. (Others: I requested my comments be redacted, they went over the line).
Posted by: OldSpook   2010-07-17 17:18  

#8  They'll never get the classified documents Sandy Berger keeps in his skivvies.

I suspect this is all about the follow-on contingents for the troop pull-out from Iraq, that being evil, costly contractors.
Posted by: Besoeker   2010-07-17 16:54  

#7  Keeping you in our thoughts and prayers, OS. Best,
lex
Posted by: lex   2010-07-17 15:53  

#6  Mods, please remove the comments above and this one as well; I do not wish for Fred to have any problems due to me.
Posted by: OldSpook   2010-07-17 11:54  

#5  Answer to the question posed is YES. I am not at more risk than before. Thanks Wapo. Anything happens to me or mine, and I survive it, I will kill the reporter and editor that did this.
Posted by: OldSpook   2010-07-17 11:28  

#4  Let me be first to use the word "Treason".
Posted by: Anonymoose   2010-07-17 11:21  

#3  It's not just the intel community. This letter went out in at least some parts of DOD and other agencies that do national security classified work.
Posted by: lotp   2010-07-17 10:23  

#2  Linky not working
Link works for me. AoS.
Posted by: tipper   2010-07-17 08:01  

#1  (*snort*) WaPo and the NYT should sue WikiLeaks for patent infringement.
Posted by: Free Radical   2010-07-17 07:33  

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