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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (489406)	6/1/2012 2:02:53 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Respond to of 793914

as he gets more desperate he is going to make more foolish and dangerous decisions. His reaction won't be to rein it in, it will be to go more extreme. I predict that in the next few months that: Jets will be flying Bombs will be dropping Footballs will be spiked Executives will be sacked Big corporations will be attacked and Money will be given away in big paper bags

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (489406)	6/1/2012 3:01:14 PM
From: skinowski	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793914

>>> loose lips sink ships..... <<< So, we owned up to Stuxnet and refused to comment on Flame. What could possibly be the strategic reason for this sudden Glasnost? The question is silly, and the motivation is transparent -- to prop up Mr. Obama's tough guy image. Who needs Julian Assange (and his traitors informers) if we have the New York Times? Interesting that they waited with these latest disclosures until after the Memorial day. The editors must have felt that it will be less annoying this way.

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (489406)	6/1/2012 5:38:21 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793914

*White House Didn’t Ask New York Times* Not to Publish Classified Information** When the New York Times published a detailed story by chief Washington correspondent David Sanger today confirming the U.S. as the co-author of the Stuxnet virus and outlining Barack Obama's role in directing a highly classified digital monkeywrenching program against Iranian nuclear facilities, many observers noted that the story couldn't have been written without White House support. Which is odd, considering how much energy the White House has been putting into prosecuting leaks it doesn't like. Sanger's story contains a wealth of presumably Top Secret data about the Stuxnet program—dubbed "Olympic Games" by the CIA—including a direct quote from Vice President Joe Biden during a Situation Room meeting about the operation. Not to diminish Sanger's reporting—one man's hard-won scoop is another man's "official leak"—but it's impossible to imagine that Sanger could have gathered the level of detail that he did about the classified program if the White House didn't want at least some of the information to reach the public. Considering the fact that Obama's Justice Department has relentlessly pursued even the most innocuous leakers of classified information that it didn't want reaching the public, from NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake to former CIA agent Jeffrey Sterling, who allegedly leaked details of a failed CIA operation against Iran to Times reporter James Risen, the story reeked of White House hypocrisy