23.12.2013 - 21:27 [ Techdirt ]

Feds Focus Investigation On Who Leaked Report Implicating Ex-CIA Boss For Intelligence Leak… Rather Than On Initial Leak

A couple of years ago, then CIA boss Leon Panetta apparently revealed a bunch of classified information concerning the raid on Osama bin Laden‘s compound to filmmaker Mark Boal, who went on to write the screenplay for the film „Zero Dark Thirty.“ Boal was the lone guest without security clearance at a speech Panetta gave revealing a bunch of details, including the identity of the ground commander of the Navy SEAL unit that executed the raid. And others in the raiding party were at the event, sitting in the front row with name tags.