To: longnshort who wrote (683170 ) 11/5/2012 12:09:04 PM From: joseffy Respond to of 1576600 Acting US Ambassador To Pakistan Met With Code Pink, Discussed ‘Classified’ Drone Casualty Counts The Daily Caller By Charles C. Johnson 11/05/2012 Excerpt: Richard Hoagland, the acting U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, discussed with Code Pink and anti-Israel activists what he said was classified information, during an October 3 meeting with the groups in Islamabad. Code Pink, a liberal anti-war organization known for disrupting Republican and conservative public events, uploaded a video of the meeting to an Internet video sharing website on Oct. 5. “I looked at the numbers today before I came here, and I saw a number of civilian casualties — officially U.S. government classified information,” Hoagland said at the meeting. “Since July 2008 it is in the two-figures. I can’t vouch for you that that’s accurate, in any way, so I can’t talk about the numbers. Alright. I wanted to see what we have on the internal record. [It's] quite low.” Realizing what he had said, Hoagland told the activist gathering: “I probably just, you know, got into big trouble with what I just said.” The left-wing delegation to Pakistan included Medea Benjamin , the co-founder of Code Pink, and Robert Naiman, the policy director of a left-wing group called Just Foreign Policy, whose board members include Julian Bond , the former NAACP chairman, and Tom Hayden , the 1960s radical and former California politician. During the five-minute video, Naiman hands the ambassador a petition, which he claims was signed by more than three thousand people, calling for an end to U.S. military drone strikes in Pakistan. Naiman also is seen giving Hoagland an anti-drone letter from left-wing American activists, including Alice Walker, Noam Chomsky, Juan Cole and Oliver Stone. *snip* Full Article