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The White House Shows Fear About Leaks -- Jonathan S. Tobin, Commentary
Though the press largely dropped the story weeks ago, no controversy has the potential to do as much long-term damage to the Obama presidency as the White House leaks investigation. That’s why Mitt Romney’s ringing denunciation of the administration’s fast and loose approach to classified information in his address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars yesterday had to scare the administration silly. In response, they not only prompted Senator Dianne Feinstein, the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, to try to walk back her accusation that the White House was the source of the leaks about cyber warfare, targeted assassinations of terrorists, Iran and other national security topics that Romney cited in his speech. They also sent out campaign honcho David Axelrod to make the rounds of the morning news shows today to reassure the American people that President Obama played no role in the flow of secrets to the front page of the New York Times and other media outlets friendly to the president.
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My Comment: As we learned from the Valerie Plame case during the Bush administration .... there are consequences if intel and/or intelligence info is leaked. With this history, the Obama administration now has a big problem .... the recent leaks are many times more serious that the Valerie Plame case .... with some of it being actually used to target and imprison CIA assets. In the end someone has to be held accountable .... even if that someone so happens to reside on the President's staff.
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