Dick Cheney’s Loose Lips

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http://thinkprogress.org/?tag=Intelligence
Dick Cheney’s Loose Lips

On today’s NYT op-ed page, Porter Goss has a piece called “Loose Lips Sink Spies“:

At the Central Intelligence Agency, we are more than holding our own in the global war on terrorism, but we are at risk of losing a key battle: the battle to protect our classified information… The terrorists gain an edge when they keep their secrets and we don’t keep ours.

Vice President Cheney should read it:

Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff testified that his bosses instructed him to leak information to reporters from a high-level intelligence report that suggested Iraq was trying to obtain weapons of mass destruction, according to court records in the CIA leak case. Cheney was one of the “superiors” I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby said had authorized him to make the disclosures, according to sources familiar with the investigation into Libby’s discussions with reporters about CIA operative Valerie Plame.

[caledesi]

1. Thank you RD. These thugs are in trouble. nt

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3. trouble is like little pepples to them--they toss it aside, little sticks

and even it does--they just continue on and on.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

2. Utter BS

No one is "authorized" to allow someone to disclose confidential information, including the President and Vice President.

That is an unlawful order, and even E2's right out of boot camp know they don't have to follow it.