Issa’s Benghazi document dump exposes several Libyans working with the U.S.

[flamingdem]

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/10/19/issa_s_benghazi_document_dump_exposes_several_libyans_working_with_the_us


House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) compromised the identities of several Libyans working with the U.S. government and placed their lives in danger when he released reams of State Department communications Friday, according to Obama administration officials.

Issa posted 166 pages of sensitive but unclassified State Department communications related to Libya on the committee's website afternoon as part of his effort to investigate security failures and expose contradictions in the administration's statements regarding the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi that resulted in the death of Amb. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.

"The American people deserve nothing less than a full explanation from this administration about these events, including why the repeated warnings about a worsening security situation appear to have been ignored by this administration. Americans also deserve a complete explanation about your administration's decision to accelerate a normalized presence in Libya at what now appears to be at the cost of endangering American lives," Issa and Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) wrote today in a letter to President Barack Obama.

But Issa didn't bother to retract the names of Libyan civilians and local leaders mentioned in the cables, and just as with the WikiLeaks dump of State Department cables last year, the administration says that Issa has done damage to U.S. efforts to work with those Libyans and exposed them to physical danger from the very groups that had an interest in attacking the U.S. consulate.

"Much like WikiLeaks, when you dump a bunch of documents into the ether, there are a lot of unintended consequences," an administration official told The Cable Friday afternoon. "This does damage to the individuals because they are named, danger to security cooperation because these are militias and groups that we work with and that is now well known, and danger to the investigation, because these people could help us down the road."

[hedda_foil]

1. What a f@#ing a-hole. nt

[Angry Dragon]

2. Issa is a traitor and should be arrested for treason

you would be arrested if you did this

[upi402]

3. These sociopaths dumbfound me

they whine like scalded piglets when some hero blows the whistle on them.
phonies!

[left on green only]

4. The thing that the American people *most* deserve nothing less than a full explanation for is......

....who is behind the effort to disenfranchise so many of our American voters to prevent them from voting. And after that, we all deserve to know what Darrell Issa is going to do to bring them to justice. For him to be speaking about any other topic is just a distraction that is designed to confuse the American public about what really matters.

[flamingdem]

5. Why can't the Democrats slam him with something

this guy is a criminal!

[young_at_heart]

6. Who will be responsible for the "unintended consequences"?

I bet Issa won't have to worry.

[JDPriestly]

7. From what I know of Wikileaks, it was nothing. The events were in the past.

This, on the other hand, is betrayal of secrets that re of current importance, essential to an ongoing investigation and conflict.

[Spider Jerusalem]

8. Hardly

"events were in the past"...so Taliban informants in Afghanistan where the US was still (and is still) engaged have absolutely nothing to fear from their names being revealed? I hardly think so. See THIS, for instance.

[The Doctor.]

9. From the article:

“I have been talking with various people who have a better sense how the real situation is in Afghanistan,” she said. The identity of the informants would “already be known to everyone who cared to know in the villages.” The fact that their names were also revealed in American military reports released by WikiLeaks “wouldn’t make any difference whatsoever,” she said.

The Pentagon's attempts to paint Wikileaks as having compromised national security or the lives of intelligence assets is merely part of the petty campaign of retaliation against Assange and Wikileaks.