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Loose Canons
Judging the Damage From Obama’s Leaks
It’s above all a national security issue. Gov. Romney cannot remain silent about that.
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The Obama leak campaign should be judged and acted upon in precisely the opposite way. There will soon be — if there aren’t already — assessments of the damage done by the leaks of the cyber attack on Iran, the Obama “kill list” program of drone attacks, and the other leaks being managed out of the White House. It is these assessments on which the House and Senate Intelligence Committees and the Romney campaign must focus.
Showy public hearings will not, as I pointed out above, accomplish anything because the White House officials called to testify won’t say anything important. They will claim that they cannot answer the important questions either because classified information would be publicly divulged or executive privilege prevents the disclosure of White House internal deliberations. Such hearings would fizzle. Republicans will be left empty-handed and look foolish for their trouble.
Instead, CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta should be called before a joint closed hearing of both intelligence committees to explain their preliminary damage assessments. Waiting for final assessments could take years that the White House shouldn’t be allowed.
In those hearings, the committees can learn which sources and methods were compromised. They can learn — to the extent our intelligence community knows — how Iran is responding to the disclosures, and how the Pakistani and Afghan governments are changing their behavior toward us as a result of the leaks.
When they learn these things, the committees can disclose their own judgments of how severe the damage is. They can’t disclose the details, but they can say that there was damage and characterize whether they believe it was significant.
But that is the limit of what Congress can do. It is up to Mitt Romney, as the leader of the Republican Party, to choose to make the Obama leaks a campaign issue.
So far, Romney has been silent on this and too many other issues. If he chooses to remain silent on the Obama leaks, he will surrender the issue leaving Obama to continue the leaking and gain whatever political advantage within reach. Instead, Romney could and should seize upon the issue. Romney should speak out quickly, joining in the bipartisan call for an investigation and asking the intelligence committees to hold the closed hearings to obtain the assessments of damage.
When — and if — the committees hold those hearings, Romney should use whatever they may disclose to make a major speech on the issue, calling the Obama administration to account for its actions against our nation’s security. It’s all up to Romney: he can be the leader of the Republican Party or sit silent, absorbing the damage to his campaign and ignoring the damage to our national security.
About the Author
Jed Babbin served as a Deputy Undersecretary of Defense under George H.W. Bush. He is the author of several bestselling books including Inside the Asylum and In the Words of Our Enemies. You can follow him on Twitter @jedbabbin.
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Jack in Wi| 6.11.12 @ 6:41AM
The more leaks the better. They are being done by patriotic, American civil servants and military people who don't want us lied into another war. They are the ones who have to have their rear ends on the line for more lies and nonsense. Let government be open and issues openly debated. There are way too many secrets. That way the criminals in charge will be more careful with their lies.
TLP| 6.11.12 @ 7:03AM
Just IGNORE him.
He puts out the most outrageous sh*t he can think of, and then sits back and laughs, as everybody pops a vein, in their outrage.
Like a Cat with a Mouse.
IGNORE him.
chuck| 6.11.12 @ 8:27AM
I know we should ignore him, but it's just damned hard at times. The guy that the Iranians hung a couple of weeks ago was exposed because of Wikileaks. This is the real-life effect of leaking National security secrets.
Occam's Tool| 6.11.12 @ 2:06PM
Well, Jack, I just donated to AIPAC to counter the effects of traitors like you.
Brooksifier | 6.11.12 @ 12:15PM
"But the leak was substantively meaningless. Plame was a CIA desk jockey, not a protected intelligence identity involved in covert operations. According to my intelligence community sources, the CIA damage assessment of the Plame name leak judged that it caused no damage whatever to our intelligence community's ability to gather intelligence."
In other words, the Plame leak was a clean leak because it happened during the Bush administrration, but if it had occurred under Obama's watch then you'd consider it dirty?
Skippy| 6.11.12 @ 6:19PM
It was clean because Celebrity Val was already playing the DC cocktail-party game and was not involved in spy-vs-spy stuff.
She was/is a thin blonde kept at her desk to improve the view at the office.
Stkman| 6.11.12 @ 12:22PM
So tell us Jack, was it right for the administration to leak the name of the doctor that led us to Osama Bin Laden? Some things should remain a secret shouldn't they Jack?
Should we have told the Germans that we had an "Enigma" decoder during WWII?
I mean what should be kept secret and what shouln't be? Loose lips sink ships, right Jack?
TLP| 6.11.12 @ 3:16PM
I tried.
JP| 6.11.12 @ 3:18PM
Tell that to the Pakistani Doctor who now sits in a prison for the rest of his life (he will probably not last a year there). It's easy to be brave from 8000 miles away.
TLP| 6.11.12 @ 7:00AM
Read your own story, Jed. Then ask yourself: What will be the end result of all of this?
Correct.
NOTHING.
The Blacks Only, Attorney General's not gonna do anything. He's a GUN RUNNER, with over 1,000 Counts of Accessory to Murder hanging over his head, down in Mexico, just as soon as they shed their Banana Republic status, and become a REAL Country.
He'll NEVER appoint an Independent Counsel, and why should he? The Republicans haven't any Stomach for a fight. Harry Reid will never get the Senate on Board. The Media is too busy with the DISTRACTION OF THE DAY, every day, and Press Outlets, (particularly the fledgling WAPO) in the midst of all of the Sh*t in the World hitting the Fan at the same time, wants us to "Look over here!" with a trip down Memory Lane, with their favorite Bogeyman - Nixon.
Even if he did appoint one. We'd get another Liberal Cotten Mathers wannabe, engaging in another Sleight of Hand Witch Hunt. Another "Republican" like Fitzgerald, who KNEW who had leaked that Lying POS - Wilson's - Whore's name to Robert Novak, and then proceeded to go after EVERYBODY ELSE, but him, in yet another Chapter of the Liberal Theatre of the Absurd.
Our System is Broken, and our Culture has been Corrupted by the very same people we would now ask, to appoint someone to bring their Messiah, to Justice.
Talk about a Greek Tradgedy.
Von Mises Jr| 6.11.12 @ 7:54AM
Here is the irony and travesty that should be exploited: Obama regime used the policies and procedures from the Bush Administration to kill Bin Laden. It was Bush that is responsible for killing the mastermind of 911.
But the Obama regime was so incompetent that they disclosed the intelligence gathered during the raid that rendered it useless as the terrorist now knew to move and hide their tracks, and it got a Pakistani Doctor sentenced to 33 years in prison.
With a Commander-in-Chief that would let countless terrorist escape and cost a patriot his freedom for political gain is not just unworthy to lead this great nation, but until he is gone, we can expect no further help from anyone since they understand that they will be betrayed for political theatre.
TLP| 6.11.12 @ 9:01AM
They're all ACCEPTABLE LOSSES in the War against Freedom, Liberty, and the American Way of Life, being fought for the Greater Glory of "The One We've Been Waiting For".
BARACK the 1st.
"By any means neccessary."
History if replete with this very same Story. The Rise and Fall of Totalitarianism, in once Free Lands. The Leader is carried in to Power, on the Shoulders of his followers. He promises them Hope, and Change, and Glory for the Empire, only to give them none of those things upon taking Power, save: Poverty, Misery, and a life of Servitude to THE STATE, of which means: To HIM, until such a time when the people can take no more, and then the streets run Red with Blood.
One Bullet coulda stopped WWII, before it even started.
I'm just saying.
Von Mises Jr| 6.11.12 @ 9:54AM
"The Age of the Democratic Revolution" (Palmer) 1760-1800 in Europe was based on equality. It was a reaction to serfdom and the Industrial Revolution. Every socialist revolution has ended in bankruptcy or is on the verge of default, and they have wrought misery.
America was founded on property rights, liberty and unalienable rights. Ours worked great until infected with European socialism starting one-hundred years ago. And now we are seeing the result.
I am confident that the tide is changing in America. Hard to be sure yet, but the 2010 elections, Wisconsin recall failure and the demise of Obamaism are very promising.
Purp| 6.11.12 @ 1:48PM
Actually, no, Obama changed the policies used under Bush and the agenda to go after Bin Laden. He didn't use torture, but used human intel on the ground. The fact a Pakistani is in prison, you can blame that on Pakistan. How in the world could Bin Laden just sit there for more than 5 years without Pakistan knowing?
Moreover, Obama has killed more Al Qaeda terrorists and their leaders than Bush dreamed of. Using drone attacks has kept Americans safer, while killing the bad guys.
So, you really should check your facts before you downgrade your president that has kept you safe all these years.
Oldefarte| 6.11.12 @ 1:59PM
And of course, KILLING [instead of capturing] them does away with that messy business of information/intelligence etc concerning THE BROTHERS activities, methods, operations, personnel, locations,etc .......right????????
Oldefarte| 6.11.12 @ 2:05PM
PS: Additionally, the collateral damage of innocents [?] that may be nearby is of no human concern to you morons that previously yelled and screamed about the TORTURE at Gitmo etc. Even better is the genecide being carried out by THE BROTHER OF SYRIA currently using tanks/missles/bombs against rifles/sticks/spitballs [since THE BROTHER is a friend/compatriot of Iran's terrorist regime, all of which is being armed/supplied by THE BROTHERS OF MOSCOW, huh? Are you such a dumbars, or do you think that the resto of are???????????????
Purp| 6.11.12 @ 3:42PM
YOU supported the invasion of Iraq, and NOW you're complaining about collateral damage - that is rich, and total bs. Tell someone that believes you are not completely partisan.
Stkman| 6.11.12 @ 4:43PM
Purp, as usual, you bring up Bush and then you bring up those who "supported: the invasion of Iraq. Let's take a test shall we?
What President and of what political prty was offered Osama Bin Laden not once, not twice, but three times and didn't do a thing to bring him to Justice?
Next question, what President and of what political party sat idly by when Kurds were gassed(gas is considered a WMD by the way) and also did nothing when Sadaam Hussein sent a hit squad to Kuwait to assasinate GHW Bush?
Answer to both questions: Clinton, Democrat.
Shut up Purp. Until you can be objective (that means listen to and weigh both sides) then just shut up.
Here's another tidbit for you. With troops in Afghanistan and Iraq we had Iran in a pincer move (since you don't know what that means, it means we had them on both sides and they we in the middle.
It was the right thing to do, you just don't see it. Clinton should have gone into Iraq when that bastard Hussein tried to asssinate a former United States President, but he didn't, as Democrats always do they leave their messes for someone else to clean up. In this case it George H.W. Bush's son. If someine tried to kill your dad would you just sit by Purp? I retract that question, I already know the answer, your a democrat, thus afraid to face anything, anyone or any issue. The only thing Democrats are good for is blaming others and stealing from them by calling it a tax.
Skippy| 6.11.12 @ 6:23PM
I love collateral damage.
Sixteen square miles of Tokyo in ashes comes to mind.
Notice we have had zero problems from Japan since around then.
I'm just sayin'.
CJW| 6.11.12 @ 6:45PM
The Iraq invasion was authorized by the US Congress, unlike Libya or Central Africa or the drone killings.
Do you approve of a president, dem or repub, having the power to decide who is a terrorrst and ordering his assassinationk, by a drone, or other means?
Von Mises Jr| 6.11.12 @ 2:04PM
Piss off, Jefferson. I have more important things to do than talk to a Soros troll.
Purp| 6.11.12 @ 3:44PM
As cordial as ever, aren't you? Methinks you can't answer the question or argue the point and hide behind rude and boorish behavior. Whatever. You lose.
Occam's Tool| 6.11.12 @ 2:07PM
Pakistan wouldn't have put the guy in jail if it had known that the counter would be merciless. They can't reach us with their nukes---we can hit them with ours.
George Collins| 6.11.12 @ 2:41PM
At the very least, Babbin has written an article that doesn't use the term "double-down", unusual for a Beltway type.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 6.11.12 @ 8:10AM
When the Obama Administration found itself confronted with a policy that was successful but with which it did not agree, it faced a conundrum: should it try a new policy that might fail or try to continue the old one and claim credit.
It appears that it has chosen a more nuanced version of the previous policy. It has largely given up on capturing anyone deliberately, which leads to messy questions about interrogation techniques, Miranda warnings, and venues and types of hearings for those interred. It has doubled down on drone killings, and resurrected the trappings of the body count mentality of the McNamara DOD (if we killed them, they were a terrorist).
Most importantly, they continue to broadcast the intimate details of what we do and how we do it, so the policies that were once successful will not continue to be so. That way, they can claim victory (or at least have a reason to quit) and then end all "overseas contingency operations".
Purp| 6.11.12 @ 1:50PM
Do you really care if terrorists are killed? Kind of a final exit for the terrorists, isn't it? Are you going soft?
Oldefarte| 6.11.12 @ 2:07PM
NO.....not me, I can assure you of that!!!!!!
Occam's Tool| 6.11.12 @ 2:08PM
I do if we could have got them to squeeze them unmercifully.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 6.11.12 @ 2:28PM
I don't mind capturing a few here and there to determine their future plans.
Purp| 6.11.12 @ 3:48PM
I can't say with certainty why they kill and not capture, but I'd just as soon be done with the terrorists and send them on to their 72 vestal virgins in the sky so they don't take any more of us with them.
But we have captured a few here and there, as you say. The latest underwear bomber for example.
Skippy| 6.11.12 @ 6:31PM
Oops!
Wrong example.
He got Miranda'd before any questions were asked.
Try again, fool.
Louis Jenkins| 6.11.12 @ 9:01AM
Obama loves the drone kills. No mess, no fuss, and no one left on base, at least not in the USA. Obama most likely has a drone kill party after each strike. However, one day soon the drones flying overhead in downtown USA, and they will be armed. Then we will see. The beauty of drone attacks is the operator is removed from the scene, like playing a video game. Why is Romney so quiet about leaks? Remember, he will use the same policies once he is in office. To call for an investigation on his part would be to condemn the very techniques he would use.
Alej| 6.11.12 @ 9:44AM
"Remember, he WILL use... ...WOULD use....?" Sorry, Democrat, I can't "remember" what hasn't happened yet.
Purp| 6.11.12 @ 1:52PM
Yes, Obama's policies have been far more successful and with less cost than his predecessor. Who cares if terrorists are killed, not captured. Good riddance.
I hadn't considered your point on Romney, but yes, that could be it. He agrees with the Obama policies, as he does on so many things. What a surprise you may all be in for, if you elect what you call a RINO.
Oldefarte| 6.11.12 @ 2:18PM
No wrong. He won't use drones or anything similar. What he will do instead is to eliminate the domestic terrorists within this country by eliminating governmental welfare and government employees in order to straighten out the economy. As you people like to BS......he likes TO FIRE PEOPLE [and he will begin doing so 2/1/13] believe me!!!!!!!!!!
Purp| 6.11.12 @ 3:49PM
Huh? That's a plan?
Louis Jenkins| 6.11.12 @ 2:46PM
Yes Purp, and a drone has just crashed in Maryland. Look it up.
chuck| 6.11.12 @ 3:42PM
"Who cares if terrorists are killed, not captured. Good riddance."
So according to your thinking, Purp, we should just nuke the bastards, kill 'em all, and let God sort "em out.
Maybe there's hope for you yet!
Purp| 6.11.12 @ 3:56PM
If drones work instead of outright invasions or covert surgical hits like Bin Laden's death works, unless the nuclear card is played by one of them, I don't see the point in using nucs. Doing what we've been doing seems to work without nucs, which would be far more fraught with unintended consequences IMHO.
Warrior| 6.11.12 @ 4:49PM
You gloss over the fact that much of the Bin Laden intelligence was gained through interrogations conducted in the latter Bush years. Most if not all of these techniques have been banned by the current administration. Also, how do you justify the killing of these people when you wanted to charge the CIA and everyone in the Bush administration with crimes for the use of enhanced interrogation techniques that did not resulted in one death or serious physical injuries?
ObamarStomper| 6.11.12 @ 9:34AM
The leaks and the leaking are most certainly for the advancement of Obama's agenda and geared to help him get re-elected. The nation be damned! I seriously doubt if Petraeus or Pannetta will cooperate with congress. They are, after all, Liberal Socialist (Democrat) Party hacks, bought and paid for, by Obama and the Libs. Petraeus is one of the most visibly co-opted Generals to the Liberal Socialist cause. Neither he, nor Pannetta would be in their current positions if they were anything other than POLITICALLY RELIABLE to Obama and his regime.
Purp| 6.11.12 @ 1:54PM
Excuse me? General Petraeus was asked to run for office as a Republican! You're opinions are not worth much, since your research is lacking.
Oldefarte| 6.11.12 @ 2:29PM
No he was not! Anyone who allow themselves to be employed and managed political by these domestic terrorists aka Democrats is worthless. Any self-respecting military general would have resigned instead of agreeing to run a department/agency in political control of these socialists; and thereafter if the political bug bit them too severly thereafter, then run as an independent or Republican. At least Eisenhower had the common sense to do thus; and Swartzkolf stayed out of politics after military retirement!!!!!
Purp| 6.11.12 @ 4:05PM
According to the Weekly Standard he was considering it as a Republican...
http://www.democrats.com/petra.....2-campaign ...
They tried, but he told them no ... they knew they had no good candidates in 2012 ....
http://petraeus2012.com/tag/gen-david-petraeus/
RAM| 6.11.12 @ 11:13AM
It stands to reason that enemies of America would want its secrets leaked.
Purp| 6.11.12 @ 1:55PM
Oh, you mean like the former VP, Cheney's, office leaking Valerie Plame's name to the press? You mean that enemy of America?
Oldefarte| 6.11.12 @ 2:34PM
Fool, that was purely political in nature. She was a desk-jockey, not a in -the-field-spy who could have become eliminated by the enemy over becoming outed. She was in no personal danger from what happened. What these domestic terrorists are doing is extremely detrimental to this country and to our spy network and allies also. this problem will be rightfully be eliminated in November just as recently Wisconsin's governor avoid the unionist thugs' recall efforts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Purp| 6.11.12 @ 4:15PM
It wasn't her that was in danger, but her contacts and associates still in the field. They were all put at risk, thanks to Dumbo Cheney's political wrangling - and his deputy fell on his sword for the Old Fart.
TLP| 6.11.12 @ 5:36PM
Oh, you mean like the Pakistani Doctor, who helped us get Bin Laden?
You mean, like the Muslim's leak to Foreign Policy Magazine, that the Israelis had plans to use Azerbaijan as a Staging Ground, or a Refueling Station, when they Bomb Iran's Nuclear Sites?
You mean the the guy the British used, to stop another Underwear Bomber?
Do you mean his LEAKS about the Stutnix Virus, that slowed up, and Destroyed, a lot of the Mullah's Centrifuges?
Or, are you just talking Sh*t outta your @ss, as usual?
TLP| 6.11.12 @ 5:38PM
By the way.
Your Boy - Colin Powell's - Boy - Dickhead Armitage - was the one who leaked Joe Wilson' Whore's name.
And, everybody knows it.
Skippy| 6.11.12 @ 7:10PM
Fitz knew it when he railroaded Libby.
Fitz should have been shot.
Oldefarte| 6.11.12 @ 11:52AM
The crux of Jed's excellent article is '.... Sources -- including spies in other nations -- can be captured and killed or turned into double agents by their exposure.....'. IOW......LOOSE LIPS SINKS SHIPS!! The PC of this situation is typically pussyfootin around the issue, which is that this country has been effectively-politically captured since the trojun-horsism of 11/4/08. The point of this situation is that our king is being check-mated gradually, ON PURPOSE! It ain't no accident, folks, it's all delibate and intential. This country is slowely being destroyed from various angles,and if we don't take action on 11/6/12, there will be no more USA period. It's not a question of this congressional committee investigating or whatever. The cat's already out of the bag, and the harm has already be caused. Congressional hearings don't matter now, and would accompolish nothing if initiated. This should be combined with non-stimulus to unions, destruction of healthcare, illegal immigration for political benefit, gun running to destroy the right to bear arms, non-issuance of oil drilling permits to benefit our enemies, fat-cat defamation of business executives to promote governmental welfare, etc. It all goes hand-in-hand. WAKE UP AMERICA.....AND DO YOUR DUTY ON 11/6/12!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who Knows?| 6.11.12 @ 1:30PM
Remember, WHATEVER the issue, when it comes to Obama, he is a clone of---
JEREMIAH WRIGHT.
Keep it simple, because the American people, by and large, are STUPID, or ignorant, or uninformed, or misinformed.
Just as a coherent musical piece has a theme, or a key, can’t we all agree when it comes to Obama,
JEREMIAH WRIGHT is about as dominant a one as possible?
Let’s LEAK this hater of America’s name, all over the place!
Oh well, taking the long view, IF America passes through the Long Dark Night of Obama, the people who survive this ordeal will likely find out what a scoundrel BHO was, in detail.
Just think of all the specific scams, criminal acts, and sins of omission, future writers can write books about!
And, here we are, at American Spectator, in the vanguard of this, ALREADY aware of it all.
Lucky us!
Oldefarte| 6.11.12 @ 2:40PM
Nah Wright is about a useless and inconsequential as is Jackson and Sharpton. Remember that STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES [OR SAYS, OR RANTS, OR WHATEVER]. The optimal word is STUPID, which they all are so; but hey it's racism, discrimination, gentrification, disenfranchisement etc to state thus, rught? If we all are to avoid the re-occurrance of STUPIDITY, let's all simply go to the polls in November and do the necessary!!!!!!!
TLP| 6.11.12 @ 5:42PM
You couldn't be righter.
The POS mentor, of our POS PRESIDENT, is just a Tar Baby, in the Briar Patch, that The Muslim is only too happy, to have us waste our time on.
Good job, O.F.
Purp| 6.11.12 @ 1:40PM
First off, Romney doesn't way in because he is clueless.
Second, the point of having an investigation is to find out what occurred, why, and what damage has been done, if any. Apparently, you can't wait to find out the result and have decided all by yourself.
Moreover, why are you not clamoring for investigation of the torture memos and the presidential order to perform torture? Even Bush admits he ordered the torture to proceed. Now, THAT, we have the facts for already.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 6.11.12 @ 2:30PM
"Romney doesn't way in because he is clueless"
Would that be "weigh" in, and would failing to get it right be another example of "clueless"?
Purp| 6.11.12 @ 4:29PM
well, well, aren't we clever to point out a typo ... how English Marm of you ... no comment on the substance however.
TLP| 6.11.12 @ 5:45PM
You have no substance.
Your a Drone.
A Useful Idiot.
An example of why we have to defeat this DISEASE, in the White House.
You're Stupidity, only makes us more determined.
Thanks.
Skippy| 6.11.12 @ 7:12PM
I love torture!
Call it that if you wish, but I love it anyway.
It makes our enemies uncomfortable, as they should be.
George Collins| 6.11.12 @ 6:05PM
You're right, Albert, Purp's community college education is showing through. "Way in" is not a typo, but just more proof that Purp is an uneducated citizen, and an angry one at that.
Oldefarte| 6.11.12 @ 2:46PM
No there is no political advantage to WEIGHING IN, and having professional and educational business knowledge/expertise is not what's defined as 'clueless'. It's called lack of DUMBARSEDNESS which the current domestic terrorists administrators have in spades. An investigation of what? Pieces of tooth enamel and skin frangments in Pakistan or Afganistan. Who cares......not me?????????????
JP| 6.11.12 @ 3:21PM
"Moreover, why are you not clamoring for investigation of the torture memos and the presidential order to perform torture? Even Bush admits he ordered the torture to proceed. Now, THAT, we have the facts for already."
And, don't forget Nancy Pelosi. She visited Gitmo in 2003 and thought the military was doing wonderful work there. She said so in public. So much for nasty torture being wrought by those rascally Republicans
Purp| 6.11.12 @ 4:31PM
She didn't know about torture and said so, but you ignored that. Bush on the other hand, freely admits he ordered it. There's a huge difference there isn't there? And, what of the others on the inside information? It was 8 Congresspeople, not just Pelosi that should/could have known.
Who Knows?| 6.11.12 @ 3:22PM
No way.
Mistral| 6.11.12 @ 2:17PM
CNN would never put anything about Hussein Obama into doubt. It is an obsequious network which illustrates its total dumbness and lack of content. Claptrap & Neutered News (CNN). Only MSNBC is worse.
Mistral| 6.11.12 @ 2:22PM
Indeed, Purp, you are right about Romney. He would probably go along with the CNN good bad leak garbage. He would probably say it is fine to have a good leak but he would be against bad ones.
Mistral| 6.11.12 @ 2:24PM
I still cannot see any difference between Hussein and Mitt. Are there any apart from the obvious physical appearances?
Skippy| 6.11.12 @ 7:13PM
One is an American.
Mistral| 6.11.12 @ 2:26PM
It was Romney who said he was against gay marriage but in favour of gay adoptions! How many times has he flip-flopped on abortion and other issues? He has even denied adamantly on TV that he does not change his views like this. Therefore, he probably does not really know what he thinks about leaks.
Skippy| 6.11.12 @ 7:14PM
He thinks you're a bozo.
He's right.
cicero| 6.11.12 @ 4:11PM
The point of the article was not whether or not O should use drones. It was that Romney had better take advantage of all of the blunders coming out of this White House if he wants to win. He has to go on the attack every time he gets an openning. If he tries to play the same game as McCain or Dole, he will have the same result.
LifeandLiberty| 6.11.12 @ 5:13PM
It’s not a leak if the President wanted the information to hit the headlines!
DTOM| 6.12.12 @ 7:28AM
So the agents who cooperated with us aren't really at risk then?
It's not your lifeandleberty so who cares! Do you often tell people, 'it sucks to be you!'? Do you have a "Mean People Suck" bumper sticker?
You are being used.