Five days ago, I wrote a post about how president Obama was allowing high government officials to leak sensitive secret information in order to make himself look good in is re-election effort. I was outraged that the New York Times had run an article describing how unnamed high administration officials were disclosing that the Stuxnet virus that destroyed much of the Iranian uranium enrichment program had been a project of the United States and that America was undertaking further cyber attacks against Iran. Claiming credit for acts of war against Iran in order to bolster the re-election effort is extremely dangerous; it justifies all sorts of counter attacks by the mullahs.
Now, it seems that many senators have realized exactly the same thing.
Here is what John Kerry had to say:
"A number of those leaks, and others in the last months about drone activities and other activities, are frankly all against national-security interests. I think they’re dangerous, damaging, and whoever is doing that is not acting in the interest of the United States of America.”
According to The Hill, "Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Intelligence Committee, said the leak about the attack on Iran’s nuclear program could 'to some extent' provide justification for copycat attacks against the United States. 'This is like an avalanche. It is very detrimental and, candidly, I found it very concerning,' Feinstein said. 'There’s no question that this kind of thing hurts our country.'”
The FBI has opened a probe into who disclosed the information and two GOP senators have called for appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate further.
Hopefully, we have not heard the end of this.
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