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2010-07-17 Fifth Column

Is ~~NYT~~ Wash Post harming intelligence work?

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Posted by gorb 2010-07-17 02:58|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 (*snort*) WaPo and the NYT should sue WikiLeaks for patent infringement.

Posted by Free Radical 2010-07-17 07:33|| 2010-07-17 07:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Linky not working

Link works for me. AoS.

Posted by tipper 2010-07-17 08:01|| 2010-07-17 08:01|| Front Page Top

#3 It's not just the intel community. This letter went out in at least some parts of DOD and other agencies that do national security classified work.

Posted by lotp 2010-07-17 10:23|| 2010-07-17 10:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Let me be first to use the word "Treason".

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-07-17 11:21|| 2010-07-17 11:21|| Front Page Top

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Posted by OldSpook 2010-07-17 11:28|| 2010-07-17 11:28|| Front Page Top

Posted by OldSpook 2010-07-17 11:54|| 2010-07-17 11:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Keeping you in our thoughts and prayers, OS. Best,
lex

Posted by lex 2010-07-17 15:53|| 2010-07-17 15:53|| Front Page Top

#8 They'll never get the classified documents Sandy Berger keeps in his skivvies.

I suspect this is all about the follow-on contingents for the troop pull-out from Iraq, that being evil, costly contractors.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-07-17 16:54|| 2010-07-17 16:54|| Front Page Top

#9 Mods, thanks. (Others: I requested my comments be redacted, they went over the line).

Posted by OldSpook 2010-07-17 17:18|| 2010-07-17 17:18|| Front Page Top

#10 We will see what the WaPo rolls out tomorrow, and then continues to dribble out over time. If as has been suggested they are threatening to list the locations where highly classified work is being done, along with some sense of what that work entails, the potential harm is immeasurable.

And the WaPo knows that. My guess is that, among other things, this represents a hard shift left for the paper similar to what they attempted with Newsweek, i.e. that they are angling for a national / international subscription base as well as for impact on the upcoming elections.

After all, this is nicely poised to deflect attention from Obama's failings, stir up outrage over 'excessive defense spending' and give the hard left clear marching orders re: where to protest and disrupt, which workers to follow home and harass/intimidate/threaten, and maybe where to try a bit of sabotage.

That it also constitutes a map for self-organizing jihadis is just a bonus so far as the WaPo is concerned.

Posted by lotp 2010-07-17 17:41|| 2010-07-17 17:41|| Front Page Top

#11 This sort of thing explains a lot about the Russian Spy Case. They don't have to do any spying themselves, all they have to do is money laundering and make suggestions and we'll do all the espionage to ourselves.

Posted by Things From Snowy Mountains 2010-07-17 17:49|| 2010-07-17 17:49|| Front Page Top

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