[GeorgiaDawg32]

the MSM..spilling the secrets normal americans won’t..

[Thane_Banquo]

Is turn-about fair play?

[silverleaf]

rent-a terrorist?

Is this another Halliburton service?
sarc

[Bernard]

So is this the media giving away actual secrets, or the government testing to see if the "leak" would show up in the media? Interesting chess game.

The real test would be, who would leak it faster, the NYT or Patrick Leahy?

[Paige]

WOW, who is the leak this time? Oh wait, I bet that darn lame stream media has a couple of credible Terrorist lined up to give credence to this story, right?

[elfman2]

"carried out a series of terrorist attacks inside Iran. The group, called Jundullah, has carried out raids, resulting in the deaths or kidnapping of Iranian intelligence and military officers."

They're not "terrorist attacks" if they target "intelligence and military officers".

[M Kehoe]

And?

My Lord, I think our country is going soft...

5.56mm

[ExTexasRedhead]

Why not tell the enemy everything you plan to do? Idiots! Put allies lives in jeopardy. Sounds like a Liberal plan led by Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Jack Murtha.

[neocon1984]

This is probably disinformation. Cheney doesn’t trust the CIA enough to let them know what’s going on. Why would a Pakistani group be needed? There are plenty of Iraqi Sunnis we could pay to do the same thing. Hopefully we are.

[airedale]

It seems the Pakistani government is on the record denying and condemning the ABC report as false. Brian Ross who is the original source also now has the denial at:http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/04/pakistan_denoun.html
Personally I find it amazing that ABC is even bothering to print the denial. Of course it won’t get the air time and if it is mentioned on the air it will be heavily discounted and as you can see at the end ABC stands by its original reporting.

“The Pakistani government had sharp words Wednesday for an ABC News report detailing U.S. and Pakistani support for an Iranian tribal militant group working to destabilize its country’s government.

Calling the report “tendentious” and an “absurd and sinister insinuation,” Pakistan’s Foreign Office said the Pakistani government “will never allow its territory for carrying out acts of terrorism and violence against any country.”

“We condemn any attempt to create misgivings between the two brotherly countries,” the statement read.

The story, citing Pakistani and U.S. intelligence sources, said the Iranian guerrilla group known as “Jundullah” operates out of the Baluchistan province of Pakistan with the advice and encouragement of American officials and has taken responsibility for the kidnapping and murder of several Iranian officials. The report appeared on ABC News’ The Blotter, “World News” and “Nightline” earlier this week.

For its part, the Iranian government appeared to embrace ABC News’ reporting that the United States was backing anti-government forces in its country. “There is no doubt in our minds that the United States spares no effort to put pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran,” said Gholamali Haddadadel, speaker of the Iranian parliament, on Thursday, in response to the story.

But he too played down the notion of any involvement by its neighbor, Pakistan, in the U.S. effort. “We don’t have any reason to believe that the military establishment in Pakistan is also supporting such militants groups,” Haddadadel said via an interpreter, according to Reuters.

On Thursday, a spokesman for the Pakistani military also disputed the ABC News report in an interview with ABC News. “It is totally untrue to say our intelligence agencies have anything to do with Jundullah,” said General Wahid Arshad, Pakistan’s chief military spokesman. “We know of the man (Jundullah leader Abd el Malik Regi) quoted in your story, and he is nothing more than a criminal and a drug dealer.”

But according to ABC News consultant Alexis Debat, who just returned from the region, Pakistani intelligence recently facilitated the payment of $1.3 million by Iran to Jundullah to obtain the release of kidnapped Iranian border guards, “They (the Iranians) are escorted by Pakistani intelligence into Pakistan to meet with Jundullah officials and probably Regi himself to make the exchange to give the money and get the hostages back. So Pakistani intelligence in many ways is involved in that.”

ABC News stands by its reporting on this story.”

The original story is at:http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/04/abc_news_exclus.html
The ABC video of the Brian Ross original video is at:http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3006029

[rman04554]

About time.

[outofstyle]

Maybe this Pakistani terror group could knock off a few ABC executives.

[andy58-in-nh]

One of these days, there will be a "sting" operation to unmask the source of leaks in Washington, and it cannot happen soon enough. It's rather a simple matter, really; you identify four or five likely suspects and feed them each a similar story, but each one with a distinctive character or twist, and then see which variation gets reported, and by whom. Then you sit the guilty party down in a dark room and tell them the bad news; preferably with a sidearm visible. Unless of course all variations make the evening news, in which case you've got a bigger problem. And we just might.

[tillacum]

It’s nice to know ABC is still on the job telling the enemy the name of the group. It’s a good thing they don’t know where the group is.