Report: Leon Panetta revealed classified SEAL unit info
Former CIA Director Leon Panetta revealed the name of the Navy SEAL unit that carried out the Osama bin Laden raid and named the units ground commander at a 2011 ceremony attended by Zero Dark Thirty filmmaker Mark Boal, according to a draft Pentagon inspector generals report obtained by a watchdog group.
Panetta also disclosed classified information designated as top secret and secret during his presentation at the awards ceremony, says the draft IG report published Wednesday by the Project on Government Oversight.
The report does not make clear whether Panetta was aware that Boal was present at the ceremony, held under a tent at the CIA complex on June 24, 2011. Approximately 1,300 people from the military and the intelligence community were on hand for the event, according to a CIA press release issued the following week.
The disclosure of the IG report could undermine the Obama administrations claims that senior officials have not leaked classified information. Last spring, Republicans publicly attacked President Barack Obama and his top aides, alleging that the administration leaked national security secrets to burnish Obamas standing for his reelection bid.
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http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/leon-panetta-seal-leak-92263.html
Communicating with the enemy isn't it?