NEW YORK POST COLUMNIST INTERVIEW REGARDING PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE LEAKS:
Krauthammer: WH Leaking Iran Intel To NYT Is A ‘Scandal’
BAIER: OK, the next topic is this cyber warfare that a big article
again in the “New York Times” talking about how president Obama secretly
ordered the increase of sophisticated attacks on computer systems in
Iran, including the Stuxnet virus we’ve heard a lot about. There’s been
some angst about this story and others recent days. Steve, intel
officials are not happy with this.
HAYES: No. And I started the morning with intel people, national
security people who are concerned about the leaks and the fact it was
laid out on the pages of the “New York Times,” and that increased as
the day went on. I talked to some senior former intelligence officials and
he said David Petraeus needs to do a crime report and start an
investigation into the leak. The bigger problem is one person said it
appears to professionals that the information that they have been sworn
to protect is being used for political purposes by the White House.
That’s a problem in the intelligence community.
KLEIN: You played something earlier in the show that Leon Panetta
said about cyber warfare and the idea that would be warfare. The
implication is we may be at war with Iran over what went on. It’s
stunning, a stunning revelation. And we are learning more about the
president and how aggressive he’s been in some of the national security
areas. And I think this is just — it’s a really fascinating development
with a lot of potential tentacles. And it gets us into hot water
potentially. The concept of retaliation would very much seem to be on
the table.
KRAUTHAMMER: It’s beyond a problem, it’s a scandal. Leaking the
details that we saw in that plan about a very, very highly secret
operation, the name of the operation, how it worked, when it worked, how
it leaked out, the fact that we his Israeli cooperation, the name of the
secret Israeli unit. All that were missing were the Hebrew names of the
Israeli agents and their street addresses in Jerusalem. You wonder how
an administration could allow this and jeopardize what we have done
simply as a way to boost the president in an election year. I think it
is a scandal.
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Good stuff, Tim. Thanks.
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