Panetta gave classified information to Hollywood
Tman sends us a link to the Associated Press which reports that Leon Panetta, as the Director of the CIA gave a speech to CIA employees which included classified details of the bin Laden raid. Apparently, scriptwriter Mark Boal from the staff working on “Zero Dark Thirty” was in the room;
Panetta said through a spokesman that he didn’t know Boal was in the room.
Judicial Watch filed a request for the more than 200 pages of documents, which the CIA released Tuesday. The documents concerned the internal investigation of its role in the film about the bin Laden raid.
“I had no idea that individual was in the audience,” Panetta said in a statement. “To this day, I wouldn’t know him if he walked into the room.” Panetta spokesman Jeremy Bash said Panetta assumed everyone in the audience had the proper clearance to hear the speech.
OK, that’s good excuse. No one knew that that this script writer was in the audience? Someone who didn’t have the clearance to be in the room? The documents that Judicial Watch FOIA’d still have portions redacted, so, yeah I still have loads of confidence in this administration and their ability to keep secrets.
Category: Dumbass Bullshit
So how did a person without proper clearance to hear the briefing, get into the room in the first place? But since Panetta wouldn’t know him if he saw him, I guess that makes it okay. This gives me loads of confidence in the CIA, Panetta and whomever was checking credentials at the door. Maybe I should try to get into the next briefing. Doesn’t seem to be that hard.
“To this day, I wouldn’t know him if he walked into the room.” That’s precisely why you STHU. If you didn’t know everone in the room–oh, what’s the use. Whatever.
Where was the FSO, SSO and or RSO?
Where is the visitor request for this person?
How does a civilian gain access to a briefing with DIR CIA?
Because, it was facilitated by WH.
This is kinda old news … And I am glad it back in the news.
Apparently, names of the operators were handed to this tool and Bigelo.
Where is Adm “Pipe Down” McRaven on this? Swift, silent, and deadly? Well just silent. Typical of him.
This is my surprised face. 😉
Apparently need-to-know covers a lot more turf now than it used to – “OK, we only tell the essential minimum: operational personnel, operational support, planners and policy, as well as any extraneous Hollywood types who may bid on the rights.”
ADM McRaven was furious over this breech. The new SPEC OPS PAC will certainly have something to say about this as they have in the past.
Right. So, if we really want to learn the details, we need to see the forthcoming movie. If that isn’t a scream, in a pathetic sort of way, I don’t know what is. For utter stupidity, this rivals Clinton’s boy, Sandy Berger, stuffing docs in his pants at the National Archives.
Panetta is a Clintonista, and expected to serve in Hillary’s cabinet in 2017. So is this the Progressives taking out a very loyal lieutenant of the Clintons as a message, like Sonny Corleone, or an up-&-comer within Hillary’s krewe taking down Slick Willy’s man to remind Bubba to keep it zipped for the next campaign season?
Security breech? Uhm. There are so many things which were circumvented on this one that it should be obvious to anyone who has ever had anything to do with secure briefings that it was no accident.
What a bunch of loons.
It’s standard procedure that anyone attending a classified briefing is checked for proper clearance before being allowed into the room, usually a few days in advance. I have a TS clearance and I still wouldn’t be allowed to hear that particular speech. Either the person who organized that briefing royally screwed up or Panetta is lying. How did a Hollywood screenwriter know to even show up to a briefing at Langley?
@11 I am with you in that someone is for sure lying their ass off. I believe this was organized and approved by the WH staff and Panetta new full well who would be there. A Hollywood screenwriter would only know of such a briefing if they were invited. Just some more of the Obama Administration’s lies about EVERYTHING, under the sun. They even lie when the truth would work just as well.
meh
FBI routinely invites known terrorists to their anti terrorism center calling it moderate muslim outreach.
Maybe the flashing red lights in the SCIF were sent out for calibration while all of this was going on. Did anyone bother to ask him if he had a cell phone on him?
you’re kidding…right?
“Bueller…Bueller…Beuller….?”
“McRaven… McRaven….McRaven….?”
Looks like they both go to the same school.
Just curious if this will have any affect on Matt Bissonnette’s status, considering the DoD hammered him for writing his book “No Easy Day”?
@17 A little ironic there. I Googled “Panetta Bin Laden Speech” and instead of any articles about this screw up it offered half a dozen that led with Panetta and Obama being upset about the disclosures in the book from last year.
@18 – I haven’t read Bissonnetts book, but this comment made me think of my previous post:
“George Little, spokesman for Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, told reporters this week: “When it comes to sensitive special operations missions, such as the operation that took down Osama bin Laden, it is important that those who are involved in such operations take care to protect sensitive and classified information.”
Karma can be a bitch, but not for Panetta in this case.
Found here: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/6/ex-seal-who-wrote-book-on-bin-laden-gets-written-o/?page=all