Obama CBS Interview: I'd Fire The Afghanistan Decision Leakers

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White House Trains Efforts on Media Leaks
Sources, Reporters Could Be Prosecuted

Washington Post
March 5, --2006--

The --Bush administration--, seeking to limit leaks of classified information, has launched initiatives targeting journalists and their possible government sources. The efforts include several FBI probes, a polygraph investigation inside the CIA and a warning from the Justice Department that reporters could be prosecuted under espionage laws.

In recent weeks, dozens of employees at the CIA, the National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies have been interviewed by agents from the FBI's Washington field office, who are investigating possible leaks that led to reports about secret CIA prisons and the NSA's warrantless domestic surveillance program, according to law enforcement and intelligence officials familiar with the two cases.

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Scott McClellan Levels Charges of Deception
Against White House Over CIA Leak Case

November 21, --2007--
Fox News

WASHINGTON — Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan is lashing out at the --Bush-- administration, claiming in his new book that the White House intentionally misled him concerning the CIA leak case and that --President Bush was involved-- in his passing along "false information" to the press.

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Bush: I Want to Know Who the Leakers Are
Tuesday , September 30, --2003--
FOX News

President Bush said Tuesday that he wanted to know who leaked a CIA employee's name to reporters, if in fact someone in his administration wrongly passed out the information.

“Leaks of classified information are bad things. We’ve got too much leaking in Washington,“ Bush said during a stop in Chicago. "I want to know who the leakers are.”

And if a Justice Department investigation of the matter reveals that the leak was a violation of the law, the "person will be taken care of."

"I welcome the investigation," Bush said. "I'm absolutely confident that the Justice Department will do a very good job."

"There's been nothing, absolutely nothing brought to our attention to suggest any White House involvement, ---and that includes the vice president's office as well---," McClellan said.

I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby Guilty
on Four of Five Counts in CIA Leak Trial

March 07, --2007--

WASHINGTON —

Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was found -guilty- Tuesday of four of five counts of perjury, lying to the FBI and obstructing an investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's identity.

"The results are actually sad — sad that we have a situation where a high-level official, a person who ---worked in the office of vice president,--- obstructed justice and lied under oath and I wish that had not happened, but it did," the prosecutor added. "When someone doesn't tell the truth to the system, everyone suffers."

I. Lewis Libby, also known as "Scooter Libby"

Libby served as Assistant to the President under George W. Bush and Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States and Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs under Dick Cheney from 2001–2005.

Libby was indicted by a federal grand jury on five felony counts of making false statements to federal investigators, perjury for lying to a federal grand jury, and obstruction of justice for impeding the course of a federal grand jury investigation concerned with the possibly-illegal leaking by government officials of the classified identity of a covert agent of the CIA, Valerie Plame Wilson.

Libby was convicted on March 6, 2007, on four counts of perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements.

Libby was sentenced to 30 months in prison and fined $250,000. The sentence was commuted in June 2007 by President Bush, voiding the prison term. The convictions still stand on the record.

So let me get this right:

"Bush = idiot"
Obama doing the same thing that Bush did
"Obama = brilliant"?

I'm not sure why people validate everything that Obama does as OK just because Bush did similar things (though those actions were atrocious supposedly). Wasn't the platform Obama was elected on "Hope and Change"? I have seen no evidence that there has been a change in DC. SSDD

I knew I should have voted for McCain....damn!

obama is running this war just like President Johnson ran the vietnam war. Inexperienced presidents never learn from past mistakes.

With Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and others stabbing the recently emboledened to fight the taliban Pakistanis in the back by complaining they are doing too little and with both of them sniping at Karzai in Afghanistan, Obamas' got bigger "leaks" to plug.
Obama, you make foreign policy and 1) If clinton says it we assume its from you, 2) if pelosi says it you have got to publicly tell her to shut the F up.

Why does Yahoo Buzz hide the article on Poppies in Afghanistan? I want to comment on how the CIA and the government there is protecting those crops.

It is a damnable lie to say the Taliban is making money on poppy crops when we ALL know they were the ones who were destroying the crops causing the USA to send the marines in to protect the drug trade.