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Anansi1171

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3. Sorry WillyT..you are persistent, but I call bull-shit!

Reply to WillyT (Original post)

Thu May 16, 2013, 11:59 AM

May 2013

The fact that the agency handlers had control of the operation and the device does not mean that the Leak was not itself illegal, threatened placed sources, future intelligence or vital interest(if not lives). Besides, you and this reporter fail to provide the context that clearly this was an intelligence win(as opposed to say the Boston Bombings) while the AP was editorially bending over backwards to both preempt its announcement and cast it in a negative light in the same breath.

So this may undercut the DOJ's case just as the sun may fry us to a crisp by day's end.

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4 paragraphs only- the above is 7 graham4anything May 2013 #1

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+1 uponit7771 May 2013 #7

Sorry WillyT..you are persistent, but I call bull-shit! Anansi1171 May 2013 #3

"Within hours *after* the AP published its May 7, 2012 story..." CJCRANE May 2013 #4

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The original AP story was sparce on details re the double-agent. Those were provided later by WaPo & leveymg May 2013 #6

True but it looks like the REAL issue is the AP shouldn't have had it at all!! uponit7771 May 2013 #8

BINGO DearAbby May 2013 #9

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It's pretty sweeping by the standards of other leaks. leveymg May 2013 #13

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