The White House has accidentally outed the identity of the CIA’s top official in Afghanistan, incredibly including the name of the Kabul Station Chief in the initial press briefing for Obama’s visit to Afghanistan.
The initial press pool report, emailed to the entire press pool (some 6,000 recipients), included the Station Chief by name as one of the people taking part in a meeting during the trip. The White House quickly released an “updated” version with the name removed.
The White House press office says that the military sent them the list of people participating, and didn’t think it was a problem, though senior officials later noticed it and removed it. They then asked the recipients not to release the name to the public,
It is unclear if the leaking of his name will force the CIA to withdraw the station chief, who works out of the US Embassy, as the sheer size of the operation in Afghanistan means he likely rarely leaves the embassy grounds anyhow.
so many possible jokes.
sad really.
It won't be long before Snowden is to blame for this…at which point it will become The Narrative and no one except America Haters will disagree with it.
Despite the leak, one is hard pressed to find the name of the station chief. Upon closer examination, it seems that the "leak" was made to press pool reporters. Well, since they're more or less on the FedGov payroll and have been vetted extensively to ensure unwavering loyalty to the regime, that hardly counts as a leak.
Any heads will roll for this? Not in an unaccountable and irresponsible Obama administration.
The same number of heads will roll for this as for those that were on watch Sept. 11
We will of course hold our breaths waiting for prosecution under the Espionage Act.
Actually, its an understandable mistake. Its very natural to put the name of the ruler of the country that the President is visiting into the press release.