Ex-CIA Officer Arrested in Continuing Obama Attack on Alleged Leakers

[The Straight Story]

Ex-CIA Officer Arrested in Continuing Obama Attack on Alleged Leakers

Like no other presidential administration before it, the Obama administration is cracking down on government officials who leak classified information to the media. The latest case has been brought against Jeffrey Sterling, an ex-CIA officer who disclosed details last decade about an operation to undermine Iran’s secret nuclear weapons program to a New York Times reporter.

Sterling, who worked at the CIA from 1993 until he was fired in 2002, was arrested Thursday in St. Louis. He is charged with 10 felony counts, including obstruction of justice and unauthorized disclosure of national defense information.

The information provided by Sterling was not published by The New York Times, but in a book written by journalist James Risen. The book portrayed the CIA operation as having inadvertently helped the Iranians gain nuclear technology.

Risen was twice subpoenaed to divulge his source, once by the Bush administration and then by Obama’s Justice Department. He reportedly never revealed the name of the person he spoke with.

http://www.allgov.com/Controversies/ViewNews/Ex_CIA_Officer_Arrested_in_Continuing_Obama_Attack_on_Alleged_Leakers_110110

[xchrom]

1. oh well. -- what are you going to do?

obama = the status quo.

[The Straight Story]

2. On some issues, very true (nt)

[Bragi]

3. He's worse than just "status quo"

The article sys the Obama admin's crackdown on whistleblowers is unprecedented. So he isn't just status quo, he is more hard-core pro-secrecy than his predecessors.