credit for the leak went to Keith Urbahn, the chief of staff for Donald Rumsfeld
How is this not "state secrets" ?
If they do not prosecute him for the leak, it's a double-standard.
How is this not "state secrets" ?
If they do not prosecute him for the leak, it's a double-standard.
Mr. Urbahn quickly added, “Don’t know if it’s true, but let’s pray it is.” He was credited by many on the Web with breaking the news, though he did not have first-hand confirmation.
Within minutes, anonymous sources at the Pentagon and the White House started to tell reporters the same information. ABC, CBS and NBC interrupted programming across the country at almost the same minute, 10:45 p.m., with the news. “We’re hearing absolute jubilation throughout government,” the ABC News correspondent Martha Raddatz reported.
Seems like the leak was planned, or at least, unpreventable.
http://twitter.com/keithurbahn/status/64989522378764288
it wasn't a 'state secret' at that point
besides, i thought most people here supported government leaks of this kind not being treason/state secrets/whatever
"Hey, this special President speech tonight... this mood, is it Osama?"
silence
The media guys then call up every old defence contact they have, old generals, the like, who probably got the news a little earlier. They get something, and run with it.
Things don't need to 'leak', sometimes the gravity and mood just tells the story.
> The news that Osama bin Laden had been killed (...) was broken via Twitter (...).
> (...) credit for the leak went to Keith Urbahn, the chief of staff for Donald Rumsfeld (...)