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Sources: Defense report names deputy SecDef for leaking to makers of “Zero Dark Thirty” filmmakers
Sources tell ABC News that the Inspector General for the Department of Defense has been preparing a report in which Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Michael Vickers is criticized for giving sensitive information to the filmmakers behind “Zero Dark Thirty.”
Specifically, Vickers is said to have disclosed to the filmmakers the identity of a member of SEAL Team Six — though not a member of the team that conducted the raid on Osama bin Laden‘s compound. Names of members of that team are not to be disclosed because of the potential for violent retaliation.
Some in the Pentagon think the Inspector General is holding the report until after the current Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, retires so as to not sully or embarrass him.
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Still looks like a great movie.
YYZ on December 18, 2012 at 8:30 AM
Too late. Would a GOP-appointed SecDef get the same treatment?
Bitter Clinger on December 18, 2012 at 8:31 AM
heh, a bushie.
sesquipedalian on December 18, 2012 at 8:39 AM
Nice set of priorities you have there.
What a nut.
darwin on December 18, 2012 at 8:46 AM
Remember when somebody went to jail, presumably for outing a CIA covert operative (she wasn’t), but actually because he misremembered something in an interview with the FBI?
Good times…good times!
Mitoch55 on December 18, 2012 at 9:15 AM
he is a bushie though, isn’t he?
sesquipedalian on December 18, 2012 at 9:47 AM
Just a quick search on Bing brings me to Wiki where it says he was appointed by President Obama in 2010.
Mitoch55 on December 18, 2012 at 9:56 AM
Don’t bother, the boy has a meme to push, facts be damned.
Wanderlust on December 18, 2012 at 10:41 AM
Our local paper today says “the Justice Department received the case … in September, but so far it has declined to launch a criminal prosecution.” That tells me Holder was protecting Obummer’s reelection, not trying to shield Panetta.
KS Rex on December 18, 2012 at 11:41 AM