Feinstein Regrets Speculating About Leaks.
Source: AP/NYT
The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee says she shouldn't have speculated that White House appeared to be responsible for some of the national security leaks because she doesn't know the source of those disclosures.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Monday at a public forum that the White House has to understand that the disclosure of classified information is coming from its ranks. She said she was confident that President Barack Obama had not leaked information.
Nevertheless, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney seized on Feinstein's remarks and accused Obama of leaking information about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
Feinstein issued a statement saying she was disappointed with Romney's comments. She reiterated that she did not believe that Obama leaked classified information.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/07/24/us/politics/ap-us-national-security-leaks.html?hp
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With 'friends like this . . . .
orwell
(7,781 posts)...Senator Dumbass...
proud patriot
(100,716 posts)LoisB
(7,250 posts)I don't see any difference between her and a "moderate" Republican.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)How much longer do you think she wants to stay in the Senate?
I want a Democratic senator, but I think she should help a successor into that post. She has done a lot of things right, but it's just time for her to retire and enjoy life, seems to me.
orwell
(7,781 posts)...She really pulled the City together in a time of crisis. It was her finest moment as a politician.
It's been pretty much downhill from there...
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)I would hate to see her resign and be replaced by a Republican.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)That's Senator Dingbat
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)...time for her to go. She's swung further and further Right over the years.
Retirement is call'n your name Dianne.
robinlynne
(15,481 posts)over these years.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)As was advised to Gringrich, when he said, "How dare you quote me" ... One should not be disappointed when someone takes what you said and repeats it.
Please Think Before Engaging Mouth.
gregoire
(192 posts)you know that they know that they know.
MidwestTransplant
(8,015 posts)wouldn't be classified.
xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)He leaked the information about Iraqi WMD to Judith Miller at the N.Y.Times then quoted that story to the public to justify his war. All Presidents leak info to "test the waters" occasionally.
progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)Thanks.. now Romney is using in his fucking speeches.
LoisB
(7,250 posts)JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)Fucking Rethuglican.
Julie
lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)wrote about her today:
http://www.salon.com/writer/glenn_greenwald//
SILVER__FOX52
(535 posts)fujiyama
(15,185 posts)she's way too far to the right. I can understand Manchin being a DINO from WV, but a DINO from CA? Seriously. What a terrible senator. And her family has profited handsomely off the war in Iraq and the tax cuts she voted for during the Bush administration. Fuck her.
magic59
(429 posts)The only cure is a brain transplant.