‘Zero Dark Thirty’ leak investigators now target of leak probe

McClatchy ^ | December 20, 2013 | By Marisa Taylor and Jonathan Landay

[Brad from Tennessee]

WASHINGTON — More than two years after sensitive information about the Osama bin Laden raid was disclosed to Hollywood filmmakers, Pentagon and CIA investigations haven’t publicly held anyone accountable despite internal findings that the leakers were former CIA Director Leon Panetta and the Defense Department’s top intelligence official.

Instead, the Pentagon Inspector General’s Office is working to root out who might have disclosed the findings on Panetta and Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Michael Vickers to a nonprofit watchdog group and to McClatchy.

While the information wasn’t classified, the inspector general’s office has pursued the new inquiry aggressively, grilling its own investigators, as well as the former director of its whistle-blowing unit, according to several people, including a congressional aide. They requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issues surrounding the 2012 movie “Zero Dark Thirty.”

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t was in his speech that Panetta disclosed classified information to Mark Boal, the “Zero Dark Thirty” screenwriter. Boal was the only audience member who didn’t have top-secret clearance.

The speech contained classified NSA intelligence and top-secret military information, including the protected identity of the ground commander of the Navy SEAL unit that staged the bin Laden raid, according to a Defense Department Inspector General’s Office document that Judicial Watch obtained.

Members of the raiding party sat in the front row in uniform, wearing name tags. They and the then-commander of U.S. Joint Special Operations Command, Adm. William H. McRaven, were “surprised and shocked” that a Hollywood screenwriter had been invited to the top-secret event, said a draft report on the Pentagon Inspector General’s Office probe.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

KGB is not happy.

[null and void]

A lot of somebodies have had quite enough.

The instant they realize just how many somebodies there are, this administration is doomed.

[darkwing104]

Looking for a scapegoat to discredit the initial cover-up.

Obama doesn't like leakers

[Uri’el-2012]

Leon Panetta could not be that stupid.

I'm sure he was acting on the direct orders
of pRESIDENT Valerie Jarrett.

[bill1952]

I’m still annoyed that its called ZERO dark 30.

Stupid.