Pentagon Looking Into Leak of Classified Intel to New York Times (FauxNews!)

[jefferson_dem]

Silly story below...

:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:


Pentagon Looking Into Leak of Classified Intel to New York Times

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is looking into how classified information indicating Iraq is moving closer to chaos wound up on the front page of Wednesday's New York Times, and is not ruling out an investigation that could lead to criminal charges.

A spokesman for U.S. Central Command, which has responsibility for operations in Iraq, confirmed to FOX News that a chart published in The Times is a real reflection of the thinking of military intelligence on the situation in Iraq as of Oct. 18, adding that an effort is underway to find out who leaked the chart and if the breach of operational security constitutes a crime.

The published report includes a classified one-page slide show from an Oct. 18 military briefing. The slide show is titled: “Iraq: Indications and Warnings of Civil Conflict,” and shows spiraling violence in Iraq and a worsening position for American efforts.

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The Times reports the analysis was prepared by the command’s intelligence directorate, which is headed by Brig. Gen. John M. Custer.

The New York Times had not yet responded to a request for comment by FOX News about how it obtained the chart, but a spokeswoman for the newspaper said it will.

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http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,226832,00.html

[LynnTheDem]

1. That "classified intell" was on the internets.

By the way...when will the Pentagon look into that leaking of the identity of an undercover op?

:eyes:

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. They have to read the NYT to find this out? Hello? Anyone home? Hello?

Please.

[LynnTheDem]

3. Oh and gee, that's the same "classified report" that BUSH DENIES.

US dismisses leaked Iraq chaos report
http://www.andnetwork.com/index?service=direct/0/Home/top.fullStory&sp=l55151

:rofl:

rightwingnuts; the stupidest MFers in history.

[Connie_Corleone]

4. They need to be looking into a plan to get the fuck out of Iraq!!

[lcordero2]

5. Seems that Gen.Custer may not

want to repeat the same mistakes as another Gen.Custer

[54anickel]

6. Do they mean this chart and article

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/01/world/middleeast/01military.html



WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 — A classified briefing prepared two weeks ago by the United States Central Command portrays Iraq as edging toward chaos, in a chart that the military is using as a barometer of civil conflict.

A one-page slide shown at the Oct. 18 briefing provides a rare glimpse into how the military command that oversees the war is trying to track its trajectory, particularly in terms of sectarian fighting.

The slide includes a color-coded bar chart that is used to illustrate an “Index of Civil Conflict.” It shows a sharp escalation in sectarian violence since the bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra in February, and tracks a further worsening this month despite a concerted American push to tamp down the violence in Baghdad.

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In the Oct. 18 brief, the index moved still another notch toward “chaos.” That briefing was prepared three days before General Abizaid met in Washington with President Bush, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Gen. Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to take stock of the situation in Iraq.

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[Az_lefty]

7. Maxwell Smart to the rescue...

fucking C.H.A.O.S!!!!!!!! :grr:

"Don't tell me...I asked you not to tell me that!!!!"