Obama outs sitting CIA Station Chief in Kabul

[OriginalShroom]

Remember the Left Wing calls of Treason when Valarie Plame was outed by Democrat and they tried to make it about Republicans?

Well now there is Obama and his people outing a sitting Station Chief to the American and Foreign Media.

I'll just sit back, pop some popcorn, and wait cries of outrage from the left over this....

White House blows it big time; accidentally outs CIA station chief in Kabul - BizPac Review

President Obama’s “secret” weekend trip to Afghanistan ended up blowing a real secret wide open when the White House identified the country’s top spy in Kabul in an email distributed to thousands of journalists around the world.

According to numerous media reports, a White House list of U.S. officials who joined Obama for a meeting Sunday at Bagram Air Field – the main American base in the country – included the CIA’s station chief in Kabul, helpfully identified by name and the title “chief of station.” (That would tip off any intelligence professional, journalist or paperback spy novel fan.) The list was emailed to at least 6,000 journalists working for American and foreign news organizations.

To make matters worse, when Washington Post Bureau White House Bureau Chief Scott Wilson noticed the inclusion and asked whether such a sensitive name should be publicly distributed, the White House ineptly tried to fix it by sending out a revised list with the name and incriminating job title omitted, according to the Post.

Brilliant. Any terrorist group that suspected they had gotten the identity of the top American espionage officer in Kabul would immediately be thrown off by the fact that his name was left off the updated list.

The Washington Post, the Washington Times and other organizations reporting on the goof have omitted the intelligence officers name. Now, the White House, CIA and a certain top spy in Kabul just have to hope the other 6,000 journalists around the world will keep their mouths shut too.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Oops.

 

[Rozman]

I would like to see Obama's favorite defenders here handle this one.

Will be hard to blame this on Bush,Reagan,the GOP,the NRA...
But I'm sure the blame will not be placed on Obama.

 

[Katzndogz]

They will ignore it and claim obama had no idea he was outing a station chief until he read it in the papers.

 

[Zander]

Who needs Edward Snowden or Wikileaks? We've got the Obama admin!

Obama and his cast of incompetent morons never cease to underwhelm......

 

[PaintMyHouse]

But I'm sure the blame will not be placed on Obama.

Did he write the email personally? The mistake rolls up to him but it wasn't his. He has people for that.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Who needs Edward Snowden or Wikileaks? We've got the Obama admin!

Obama and his cast of incompetent morons never cease to underwhelm......

There are more drama queens here than on Castro Street.

 

[Katzndogz]

The excuse is that obama is so incompetent he can't even hire competent people.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

The excuse is that obama is so incompetent he can't even hire competent people.

Ah, humans make mistakes. Never heard that eh? And just because you are a rabid partisan doesn't change that.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Obama outs sitting CIA Station Chief in Kabul

No, he did not. Only answer needed for this.

 

[Siete]

Post White House bureau chief Scott Wilson filed the pool report and distributed to more than 6,000 recipients.

“Initially, the press office raised no objection, apparently because military officials had provided the list to distribute to news organizations. But senior White House officials realized the mistake and scrambled to issue an updated list without the CIA officer’s name. The mistake, however, already was being noted on Twitter, although without the station chief’s name,” The Post reported.

The agent’s name was not released by news organizations

 

[OKTexas]

I would like to see Obama's favorite defenders here handle this one.

Will be hard to blame this on Bush,Reagan,the GOP,the NRA...
But I'm sure the blame will not be placed on Obama.

Some low level bureaucrat in Cincinnati or Cleveland, I bet.

 

[Iceweasel]

What haven't these guys fucked up?

 

[Rozman]

I wonder how many conversations like this happen in this administration?

"Shall we tell the President"

"Nah... fuck him.Let him find out about it a few weeks from now when the media finally covers it"

 

[Siete]

What haven't these guys fucked up?

uh, the Whitehouse caught the mistake after military officials approved the list for release

 

[Iceweasel]

Post White House bureau chief Scott Wilson filed the pool report and distributed to more than 6,000 recipients.

“Initially, the press office raised no objection, apparently because military officials had provided the list to distribute to news organizations. But senior White House officials realized the mistake and scrambled to issue an updated list without the CIA officer’s name. The mistake, however, already was being noted on Twitter, although without the station chief’s name,” The Post reported.

The agent’s name was not released by news organizations

It was out by then, Einstein. Which part of "a White House list of U.S. officials..." confuses you?

 

[bravoactual]

Remember the Left Wing calls of Treason when Valarie Plame was outed by Democrat and they tried to make it about Republicans?

Well now there is Obama and his people outing a sitting Station Chief to the American and Foreign Media.

I'll just sit back, pop some popcorn, and wait cries of outrage from the left over this....

White House blows it big time; accidentally outs CIA station chief in Kabul - BizPac Review

President Obama’s “secret” weekend trip to Afghanistan ended up blowing a real secret wide open when the White House identified the country’s top spy in Kabul in an email distributed to thousands of journalists around the world.

According to numerous media reports, a White House list of U.S. officials who joined Obama for a meeting Sunday at Bagram Air Field – the main American base in the country – included the CIA’s station chief in Kabul, helpfully identified by name and the title “chief of station.” (That would tip off any intelligence professional, journalist or paperback spy novel fan.) The list was emailed to at least 6,000 journalists working for American and foreign news organizations.

To make matters worse, when Washington Post Bureau White House Bureau Chief Scott Wilson noticed the inclusion and asked whether such a sensitive name should be publicly distributed, the White House ineptly tried to fix it by sending out a revised list with the name and incriminating job title omitted, according to the Post.

Brilliant. Any terrorist group that suspected they had gotten the identity of the top American espionage officer in Kabul would immediately be thrown off by the fact that his name was left off the updated list.

The Washington Post, the Washington Times and other organizations reporting on the goof have omitted the intelligence officers name. Now, the White House, CIA and a certain top spy in Kabul just have to hope the other 6,000 journalists around the world will keep their mouths shut too.

I seem to have a very clear memory of the bushies outting a Non-Official Cover Officer of the C.I.A. and you people did not give two shits about.

Nice piece of hypocrisy on this RePugs.

You did not give a flying fuck through an rolling donut about Valerie Plame Wilson.

 

[J.E.D]

First, Obama didn't out anybody. It was a mistake made by people way lower than the potus. Second, at least it wasn't done on purpose, unlike the outing of Valerie Plame (a covert CIA agent) which was without a doubt done on purpose by the Bush admin as retaliation for her husband's vocal disapproval of the faulty evidence used to justify the war in Iraq.

 

[Sallow]

Anyone got his name yet?

 

[Siete]

Post White House bureau chief Scott Wilson filed the pool report and distributed to more than 6,000 recipients.

“Initially, the press office raised no objection, apparently because military officials had provided the list to distribute to news organizations. But senior White House officials realized the mistake and scrambled to issue an updated list without the CIA officer’s name. The mistake, however, already was being noted on Twitter, although without the station chief’s name,” The Post reported.

The agent’s name was not released by news organizations

It was out by then, Einstein. Which part of "a White House list of U.S. officials..." confuses you?

out by when Goober, were you there?

The agent’s name was not released by news organizations

confusing isn't it ?