5 Times The Obama Administration Leaked Classified Information

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 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.

The Obama Clones Are Coming Out Against Trump. Panetta Is The Latest. Remember, He Oversaw Obama's Desire To Emasculate The Military.

Ex-CIA chief on Trump's distrust in intel: 'I've never seen anything like this'

By MADELINE CONWAY

 

01/06/17 11:26 AM EST

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Leon Panetta, the former CIA director, aired concerns with Donald Trump’s public resistance to the intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia sought to disrupt the election through cyberattacks, calling it “unheard of and unprecedented.”

“I've never seen anything like this in my lifetime,” Panetta told NBC’s Matt Lauer in an interview taped Thursday and aired Friday on the "Today" show. “The fact that the president-elect is tweeting on this issue and taking it to the public, and in many ways undermining the credibility of the very intelligence agencies that have to provide information to him in order for him to be president of the United States, this is just unheard of and unprecedented, and I think we all have to be concerned about this.”

“This is not the kind of bickering that ought to be going on in public,” he concluded.

Panetta, a Democrat who led the CIA and later the Defense Department during the Obama administration, was blunt in his interview with Lauer. He sounded dismayed that Trump has taken to Twitter to question intelligence officials’ conclusion from October that Russia was behind cyberattacks on top Democratic Party officials during the presidential campaign.

The hacks of private emails from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, were published on the website WikiLeaks, embarrassing the Clinton campaign. Trump has repeatedly declined to accept the intelligence that the Russians hacked the emails, despite offering no alternative evidence, and claimed that it is an attempt to delegitimize his victory.

“Very frankly, if a president is going to be successful, this is no way to start,” Panetta said, when asked about Trump’s tweets sowing doubt on the intelligence community’s conclusion. “The president has to work with the intelligence community. ... I'm concerned that it really is damaging the credibility of our intelligence agencies and the morale of those men and women who serve in our intelligence agencies.”

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Trump is scheduled to be briefed on the intelligence community’s most recent report on the hacking on Friday afternoon. Officials testified on the report before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday.

Panetta told Lauer that he thinks Trump is “going to realize that this is a very important issue that must be dealt with seriously” when he receives the briefing.

“He’s going to find that it’s easy to tweet about reactions to all kinds of issues, but to seriously deal with our national security and deal with the threats to our country is a business that ought to be done in the confines of the Oval Office,” Panetta said.

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Benghazi Report Is A Stunner. Will It Really Make A Difference Or Is The Republic Lost?

AAN NEWS ALERT: Benghazi 

Report Released

• Source: American Action News 
• by: AAN Staff

9 1 1  25

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The Benghazi Report was released today by the Congressional Select
Committee on Benghazi which is led by Trey Gowdy (SC-04).

With the report, Gowdy released the following statement:

“Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods were heroes

who gave their lives in service to our country. Their bravery and the

courageous actions of so many others on the ground that night should be

honored.

“When the Select Committee was formed, I promised to conduct this

investigation in a manner worthy of the American people’s respect,

and worthy of the memory of those who died. That is exactly what my

colleagues and I have done.

“Now, I simply ask the American people to read this report for themselves,

look at the evidence we have collected, and reach their own conclusions.

You can read this report in less time than our fellow citizens were taking

fire and fighting for their lives on the rooftops and in the streets of Benghazi.”

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According to the press release, here are the new facts in part 1:

• Despite President Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s 
• clear orders to deploy military assets, nothing was sent to Benghazi, 
• and nothing was en route to Libya at the time the last two Americans 
• were killed almost 8 hours after the attacks began. [pg. 141]
• With Ambassador Stevens missing, the White House convened a 
• roughly two-hour meeting at 7:30 PM, which resulted in action items
• focused on a YouTube video, and others containing the
•  phrases “[i]f any deployment is made,” and “Libya must agree
•  to any deployment,” and “[w]ill not deploy until order comes to go 
• to either Tripoli or Benghazi.” [pg. 115]
• The Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff typically would have
•  participated in the White House meeting, but did not attend because
•  he went home to host a dinner party for foreign dignitaries. [pg. 107]
• A Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team (FAST) sat on a plane in Rota,
•  Spain, for three hours, and changed in and out of their uniforms four 
• times. [pg. 154]
• None of the relevant military forces met their required deployment 
• timelines. [pg. 150]
• The Libyan forces that evacuated Americans from the CIA Annex to 
• the Benghazi airport was not affiliated with any of the militias the CIA 
• or State Department had developed a relationship with during the prior 
• 18 months. Instead, it was comprised of former Qadhafi loyalists who 
• the U.S. had helped remove from power during the Libyan 
• revolution. [pg. 144]

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New facts from Part II:

• Five of the 10 action items from the 7:30 PM White House meeting 
• referenced the video, but no direct link or solid evidence existed 
• connecting the attacks in Benghazi and the video at the time the 
• meeting took place. The State Department senior officials at the 
• meeting had access to eyewitness accounts to the attack in real
•  time. The Diplomatic Security Command Center was in direct 
• contact with the Diplomatic Security Agents on the ground in Benghazi 
• and sent out multiple updates about the situation, including a 
• “Terrorism Event Notification.” The State Department Watch Center 
• had also notified Jake Sullivan and Cheryl Mills that it had set up
•  a direct telephone line to Tripoli. There was no mention of the video
•  from the agents on the ground. Greg Hicks—one of the last people 
• to talk to Chris Stevens before he died—said there was virtually no
•  discussion about the video in Libya leading up to the attacks. [pg. 28]
• The morning after the attacks, the National Security Council’s 
• Deputy Spokesperson sent an email to nearly two dozen people 
• from the White House, Defense Department, State Department, 
• and intelligence community, stating: “Both the President and 
• Secretary Clinton released statements this morning. … Please 
• refer to those for any comments for the time being. To ensure we 
• are all in sync on messaging for the rest of the day, Ben Rhodes will
•  host a conference call for USG communicators on this chain at 
• 9:15 ET today.” [pg. 39]
• Minutes before the President delivered his speech in the Rose 
• Garden, Jake Sullivan wrote in an email to Ben Rhodes and others: 
• “There was not really much violence in Egypt. And we are not 
• saying that the violence in Libya erupted ‘over inflammatory videos.
• ’” [pg. 44]
• According to Susan Rice, both Ben Rhodes and David Plouffe 
• prepared her for her appearances on the Sunday morning talk 
• shows following the attacks. Nobody from the FBI, Department of
•  Defense, or CIA participated in her prep call. While Rhodes testified 
• Plouffe would “normally” appear on the Sunday show prep calls, Rice
•  testified she did not recall Plouffe being on prior calls and did not 
• understand why he was on the call in this instance. [pg.98]
• On the Sunday shows, Susan Rice stated the FBI had “already
•  begun looking at all sorts of evidence” and “FBI has a lead in this 
• investigation.” But on Monday, the Deputy Director, Office of Maghreb 
• Affairs sent an email stating: “McDonough apparently told the SVTS 
• [Secure Video Teleconference] group today that everyone was 
• required to ‘shut their pieholes’ about the Benghazi attack in light 
• of the FBI investigation, due to start tomorrow.” [pg. 135]
• After Susan Rice’s Sunday show appearances, Jake Sullivan
•  assured the Secretary of the State that Rice “wasn’t asked 
• about whether we had any intel. But she did make clear our
•  view that this started spontaneously and then evolved.” [pg. 128]
• Susan Rice’s comments on the Sunday talk shows were met with
•  shock and disbelief by State Department employees in Washington. 
• The Senior Libya Desk Officer, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs,
•  State Department, wrote: “I think Rice was off the reservation on 
• this one.” The Deputy Director, Office of Press and Public Diplomacy,
•  Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, State Department, responded: “Off
•  the reservation on five networks!” The Senior Advisor for Strategic 
• Communications, Bureau of Near East Affairs, State Department, 
• wrote: “WH [White House] very worried about the politics. This was 
• all their doing.” [pg. 132]
• The CIA’s September 13, 2012, intelligence assessment was rife with 
• errors. On the first page, there is a single mention of “the early 
• stages of the protest” buried in one of the bullet points. The article
• cited to support the mention of a protest in this instance was actually 
• from September 4. In other words, the analysts used an article from 
• a full week before the attacks to support the premise that a protest
• had occurred just prior to the attack on September 11. [pg. 47]
• A headline on the following page of the CIA’s September 13 intelligence
•  assessment stated “Extremists Capitalized on Benghazi Protests,” 
• but nothing in the actual text box supports that title. As it turns out, 
• the title of the text box was supposed to be “Extremists Capitalized 
• on Cairo Protests.” That small but vital difference—from Cairo to
•  Benghazi—had major implications in how people in the administration 
• were able to message the attacks. [pg. 52]

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Part III:

• During deliberations within the State Department about whether and
•  how to intervene in Libya in March 2011, Jake Sullivan listed the
•  first goal as “avoid[ing] a failed state, particularly one in which
•  al-Qaeda and other extremists might take safe haven.” [pg. 9]
• The administration’s policy of no boots on the ground shaped the
•  type of military assistance provided to State Department personnel 
• in Libya. The Executive Secretariats for both the Defense Department 
• and State Department exchanged communications outlining the
•  diplomatic capacity in which the Defense Department SST security 
• team members would serve, which included wearing civilian clothes 
• so as not to offend the Libyans. [pg. 60]
• When the State Department’s presence in Benghazi was extended in 
• December 2012, senior officials from the Bureau of Diplomatic 
• Security were excluded from the discussion. [pg. 74]
• In February 2012, the lead Diplomatic Security Agent at Embassy 
• Tripoli informed his counterpart in Benghazi that more DS agents 
• would not be provided by decision makers, because “substantive
•  reporting” was not Benghazi’s purpose. [pg. 77]
• Emails indicate senior State Department officials, including Cheryl 
• Mills, Jake Sullivan, and Huma Abedin were preparing for a trip 
• by the Secretary of State to Libya in October 2012. According to 
• testimony, Chris Stevens wanted to have a “deliverable” for the 
• Secretary for her trip to Libya, and that “deliverable” would be making
•  the Mission in Benghazi a permanent Consulate. [pg. 96]
• In August 2012—roughly a month before the Benghazi attacks—security
•  on the ground worsened significantly. Ambassador Stevens initially 
• planned to travel to Benghazi in early August, but cancelled the
•  trip “primarily for Ramadan/security reasons.” [pg. 99]
• Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta bluntly told the
•  committee “an intelligence failure” occurred with respect to 
• Benghazi. Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell also a
• cknowledged multiple times an intelligence failure did in fact occur
•  prior to the Benghazi attacks. [pg. 129]

More details on the full report can be found here.

Read more at http://americanactionnews.com/articles/aan-news-alert-benghazi-report-released#XAk1LJkxoQESRda3.99

Shouldn't Heads Roll For Lying About The Iranian Deal?

Obama Aide: Iran Deal Built on Lie

Deputy National Security Adviser For Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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The Obama administration misled Americans about supposed "moderates" that officials were dealing with in the Iranian theocracy to forge a nuclear proliferation deal — all to make the deal more palatable to the American public, according to The New York Times.

Ben Rhodes, deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, even boasted about how he helped create the false narrative to mask that Iranian hard-liners were really calling the shots, the Times reports.

Rhodes concedes to the Times that the so-called moderate regime is not moderate at all, commenting: "We're not betting on it."

"We created an echo chamber," he tells the Times in a piece to appear in the Sunday magazine of the newspaper. "They were saying things that validated what we had given them to say," he adds about so-called experts praising the deal in the press.

According to the Times, when Rhodes was asked about his misleading version of the deal, Rhodes said, "In the absence of rational discourse, we are going to discourse the [expletive] out of this."

"We had test drives to know who was going to be able to carry our message effectively, and how to use outside groups like [the anti-nuke group] Ploughshares, the Iran Project and whomever else," he tells the Times.

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"So we knew the tactics that worked. We drove them crazy," he tells the Times, referring to Republicans and other opponents of the deal, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Leon Panetta, former secretary of defense, tells the Times the hard-line regime and its military arm was still in charge at the time of the Iran deal negotiations — despite what the administration said.

"There was not much question that the Quds Force and the supreme leader ran that country with a strong arm, and there was not much question that this kind of opposing view could somehow gain any traction," he tells the Times.

"I think the whole legacy that he [Obama] was working on was, 'I'm the guy who's going to bring these [Mideast] wars to an end, and the last goddamn thing I need is to start another war.'"

Without naming him, Panetta suggested to the Times that Rhodes was one of several on Obama's staff who told the president only what he wanted to hear.

"They thought their job was not to go through this open process of having people present all these different options, but to try to force the process to where they thought the president wanted to be," he recalled.

"They'd say, 'Well, this is where we want you to come out.' And I'd say, '[expletive], that's not the way it works.' "

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