5 Times The Obama Administration Leaked Classified Information

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BY:

 MICHAEL QAZVINI

MAY 17, 2017

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Democrats have short memory spans. As the mainstream media teams up with
 the political Left to take down Donald Trump’s presidency, it’s worth maintaining
some perspective on White House "scandals" as reported by the self-proclaimed
gatekeepers of truth.

Much of the self-righteous indignation directed against President Trump is
grounded in hypocrisy. When Democrats cry wolf over Trump unduly influencing
 law enforcement, one can’t help but think of the egregiously corrupt and highly
 partisan Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch Justice Departments. When Democrats
whine about Trump’s "unsympathetic" immigration policy, one can’t help but
wonder where the voices of opposition were during former President Bill Clinton's
 State of the Union speeches.

Now as the MSM goes berserk over reports of Trump allegedly revealing
 classified information from an ally to Russia, let’s take a trip down memory
lane and recall the countless times that former President Obama, the bejeweled
 darling of the Left, did something that Democrats are now calling "treasonous," "unpatriotic," and "traitorous."  

Here are five times the Obama administration leaked classified information:

1. That time Obama’s CIA director leaked top-secret information about 
Seal Team 6. "In 2011, former CIA Director Leon Panetta revealed top secret
 information about the Osama Bin Laden raid," reports The Federalist, adding:

Panetta reportedly revealed the name of the Navy SEAL unit that carried out the raid and named their ground commander at a ceremony where “Zero Dark Thirty” writer Mark Boal was in attendance, according to a report by the inspector general at the Department of Defense.

Panetta reportedly assumed all 1,300 people in attendance at the event had adequate security clearances to hear the top-secret information about the Seal Team 6 raid, according to Politico. The report detailing Panetta’s oversharing flies in the face of the Obama White House’s claims they had never shared any classified information with anyone they shouldn’t have.

2. That time an Obama defense official leaked secret information about 
Israeli military operations against Iran. As Ben Shapiro pointed out
, "An anonymous 'US defense source' [leaked] to the Times of London that
 Israel had cut a deal with the Saudis to use their airspace to strike Iran. The
 deal [was] scuttled." The official leaked the classified information of key ally
 Israel in June 2010, just as the Obama administration was gearing up to take
 a harsher stance against the Jewish State’s settlement building activities.

3. That time a high-ranking official in Obama’s Joint Chiefs of Staff 
leaked classified information about cyber attacks against Iran’s nuclear
 facilities.

Here’s The Federalist again:

In 2010, Gen. James Cartwright, then vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, allegedly leaked to reporters classified information about cyber attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities. He reportedly shared documents about a highly sophisticated virus used to foil Iran’s nuclear program to members of the media, but there was no outrage from the press about these disclosures.

Cartwright pled guilty last October to giving false testimony to FBI agents about his involvement in the leaks, only to be pardoned by President Obama days before he left the White House. Yet this got very little air time on cable news channels.

4. That time Vice President Joe Biden publicly revealed the highly secret
 identities of the SEAL Team Six Members behind the Osama Bin Laden 
assassination operation. The leaks directly endangered the lives of the 
SEAL members. The Washington Examiner reports on Biden's infamous
revelation:

His reckless action put at risk the lives of every member of SEAL Team 6. The Taliban and other jihadists eager to avenge bin Laden now knew which unit to target. Stunned and shocked, SEAL members immediately realized they were going to be hunted by al Qaeda sympathizers.

Karen Vaughn, the mother of slain SEAL Aaron Vaughn, says that within hours after Mr. Biden’s comments, her son called to tell her to wipe away every piece of information regarding the family on social media, Facebook and Twitter. “I never heard Aaron that afraid in his life,” Mrs. Vaughn said in an interview. “He told me: ‘Mom, we’re picking up chatter. We’re not safe. You’re not safe. Delete everything.’”

According to Mrs. Vaughn, Mr. Biden essentially placed a bull’s-eye on her son’s back — and that of all the other SEALs. He leaked classified information. SEAL Team 6 is a covert unit, which is supposed to operate in the shadows. This is how they are able to conduct deadly raids on terrorist groups. 

5. All those times the Obama administration leaked classified information 
about highly dangerous Israeli military operations in Syria. Shapiro notes
that on at least two occasions, the Obama administration revealed classified
 about defensive and counter-offensive Israeli military strikes against Assad:

May 2013: Members of the Obama Pentagon leak information that

Israel attacked the Damascus airport to stop a shipment of weapons to terrorist groups. Obama officials actually had to apologize for this leak, since it endangered American lives. They blamed “low-level” employees.

June 2013: The Obama administration leaks specific information regarding Israeli Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile sites. Weeks later, US sources tell CNN that Israel attacked a Syrian installation full of Russian-provided missiles. The same month, “American intelligence analysts” tell the New York Times that Israeli strikes had not been effective. All that information was classified.

Syria is a close ally of Iran. By leaking this information, the Obama administration
 compromised Israel’s national security, leaving the Jewish State vulnerable to
retaliation from Iran, a country that has repeatedly called for the complete
annihilation of Israel, and Russia, another key Assad ally.

Obama Just Did One Of The Worst Travesties In His Administration. Why Did He Do It?

OBAMA COMMUTES SENTENCE OF TRANSGENDER TRAITOR “CHELSEA” MANNING

 January 18, 2017  71 Comments

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(Military.com) President Barack Obama has commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst who leaked information to the website WikiLeaks, the White House announced Tuesday.

Manning, 29, is imprisoned at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas as part of a 35-year sentence she received in August 2013 after pleading guilty to multiple charges under the Espionage Act. She will now be freed May 17 rather than in 2045, according to a release from the White House.

Manning was among 209 inmates whose sentences were shortened by Obama. The president also pardoned another 64 people facing crimes, including retired Marine Gen. James Cartwright, the former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who pleaded guilty in October to lying to federal investigators about discussing the Iranian nuclear program with reporters.

“With 209 commutations and 64 pardons, @POTUS just gave 273 Americans a second chance,” stated the White House Twitter account.

Manning’s attorney, David Coombs, didn’t immediately return a call requesting comment.

“After this case, I had to tell Chelsea: ‘I’ve represented murderers. I’ve represented rapists. I’ve represented child molesters. And none of them received 35 years,’ ” Coombs recently told NBC News.

Edward Snowden, who was notably missing from the list and whose own high-profile leak case some say played a role in Manning’s sentencing, recently tweeted on the matter, “Mr. President, if you grant only one act of clemency as you exit the White House, please: free Chelsea Manning. You alone can save her life.”

Manning, who was from Oklahoma City and previously known as Bradley, has sought to undergo gender reassignment surgery in prison. She attempted suicide twice last year — once in July, and again in October while in solitary confinement — and also underwent a hunger strike.

She became a lightning rod for controversy after her 2010 arrest while serving as an intelligence analyst in Iraq. She faced 20 charges for illegally passing several hundred thousand documents, including military and diplomatic cables, to the anti-secrecy site WikiLeaks…

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Iran Nuke Deal Causes More Furor

Israel Suspends Defense Talks with US Pending Iran Deal

By Lea Speyer June 25, 2015 , 12:30 pm

“The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord.” (Proverbs 16:33)

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P5+1 negotiators meet with their Iranian counterparts during nuclear negotiations in Lausanne, Switzerland. (Photo: US Department of State)

Israel has decided to suspend talks with US officials over security aid until after the looming Iran nuclear deal is finalized, Walla! reported.

Following a joint meeting between senior officials of the Defense Ministry, Prime Minister’s Office and the Foreign Ministry, it was decided to freeze dialogue between both countries until the conclusion of talks between the Islamic Republic and P5+1 world powers.

Officials told the news site that the main reason for suspending talks was due mainly to increasing tensions between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and the White House.

An anonymous senior defense official confirmed the decision and explained that freezing talks will allow Israel to formulate new requests for defense materials based on whether or not the deal is signed.

Based on the agreement signed between world powers and Iran, Israel will update its defense demands in order to maintain its security and defense superiority in the region.

Other Israeli defense officials have suggested though that Israel may decide to extend the freeze until early 2017, when a new US president is sworn into office.

Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama have publicly butted heads over each ones stance on Iran’s nuclear program. Netanyahu, a vocal advocate against the deal, has warned that the US and other world powers are only extending the breakout time of allowing Tehran to acquire a nuclear weapon.

Former Obama advisors were among a bipartisan group of 18 diplomats, experts and legislators who wrote an open letter to the president warning that the emerging nuclear deal does not address Israel’s security concerns.

The group stated that the deal “may fall short of meeting the administration’s own standard of a ‘good’ agreement” and that “the [current] agreement will not prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapons capability.”

“It will not require the dismantling of Iran’s nuclear enrichment infrastructure…It does not address Iran’s support for terrorist organizations (like Hezbollah and Hamas), its interventions in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen (its ‘regional hegemony’), its ballistic missile arsenal, or its oppression of its own people,” the letter stated.

Signatories of the letter include David Petraus, former director of the CIA; Dennis Ross, former special assistant to the president who was responsible for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and Iran policy during Obama’s first term; General James Cartwright, who was the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2007-2011; Olli Heinonen, former deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency; and Gary Samore, former arms control and weapons of mass destruction coordinator under Obama who now heads United Against a Nuclear Iran.

Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/44116/israel-suspends-defense-talks-us-pending-iran-deal-jerusalem/#oXAbhRjvtx8ZqwhK.99