David Axelrod Says Classified Leaks Not From White House

Yahoo ^ | 6/10/12 | George Stephanopoulos

[Libloather]

David Axelrod Says Classified Leaks Not From White House
By George Stephanopoulos | ABC OTUS News – 5 hrs ago

Obama campaign senior adviser David Axelrod said he is confident that newly launched investigations will show that recent leaks on classified national security information did not come from the White House.

"I think the authors of all of this work have said that the White House was not the source of this information," Axelrod told me this morning on "This Week." "I can't say that there weren't leaks. There were obvious leaks, but they weren't from the White House."

Axelrod said Obama takes all "life or death decisions" on national security seriously, and that the White House would not leak information that may jeopardize classified operations.

"He understands that when he commits people to missions that their lives are at stake, and the safety of Americans are at stake," Axelrod said. "And the last thing that he would countenance or anybody around him would countenance are leaks that would jeopardize the security of Americans on these secret missions, and the success of those missions."

[MHGinTN]

You missed the essence of wht axelgreasy said: the leaks did not come from the building called ‘the White House’. He parsed in such a way as to deny deny deny if exposed for a hack that he is. The leak probably came from Valerie Jarrett, not the building. She may even have been out of the White Hut when she passed the intel on to someone to leak it, so axlegreasy has another parsing out. ... When democrat speak, they lie. You just have to know how they make themselves believe their own lies.

[citizencon]

That is, Axelrod is confident that their hand-picked investigators will NOT show that these leaks came from the WH.

[TribalPrincess2U]

What a blabbering brainless butthole!

[rodguy911]

The bent axel stated all this right after stuffy stephy laid out the question on ABC without David Brinkley "that it had to be on of the people in the room" nothing phases these Chicago mobsters. No lie too big to tell,no stretch of the truth too far out,congenital liars all.

Anyway, its all O.K. attorney Seargeant Holder will investigate he'll get to the bottom!! Possibly not before Nov. but hes get there.

[Verginius Rufus]

Eventually we'll find out that Richard Armitage is the source of the leaks.

I was browsing through David Limbaugh's new book at the bookstore. One topic he covers is the intense pressure the Obama people put on the media. The media people who got the information know who gave it to them, but they may be afraid of what might happen to them if they cooperate with the investigation.

Clamming up between now and November 6 could be a life-saver, or at least a career-saver.

[rodguy911]

ROTFLMAO just too good!!

[rodguy911]

I doubt President Jarrett has the guts to actually do anything as overt as that.She has dozens of little elves who are just lined up to do her bidding. After running shotgun for the Daley Chicago mob she’ bound to be well aware of the concept of plausible denyability and probably uses it well.

[Venturer]

David Axelrod said he is confident that newly launched investigations will show that recent leaks on classified national security information did not come from the White House.
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I think we are all sure that THIS investigation will not show a leak coming from the White House.

That doesn’t mean it didn’t come from the White House, just that this investigation is a friggin joke from beginning to end.

[bill1952]

The Whitehouse said that Nixon wasn’t involved in Watergate

[Lazamataz]

Okay, it's clear Axelrod KNOWS it's not from the White House.

Therefore, he KNOWS where it *IS* from.

Time to get him under oath in front of a Congressional Panel.

[BerryDingle]

Just trying hard to sort this out-—so, all of the intelligence communities are upset about this except the Zippy regime, but it didn’t come from Zippy? You don’t know where it came from, but you do know it wasn’t Zippy? Mr. Axel, exactly who in the NYT says it wasn’t the White House?

[Ann Archy]

Then it must be AXELROD who is the LEAKER!! And he got the info from OBAMA!

[swamprebel]

Where is the Special Prosecutor? To leak cyber tactics, and drone tactics has put us all in danger.

[rodguy911]

Quote from Peter King of NY a couple of threads down from this one. He's got their number. Now to see if anyone else with some horsepower will chime in.(Calling Rush Limbaugh)

This is the most shameful cascade of leaks I've ever heard or seen in government," he said. "It's clear from those stories this came right from the White House, came right from the National Security Council, came right from the Situation Room. ... It has to lead to people very high up in the administration in his White House."

[BerryDingle]

The leak probably came from Valerie Jarrett, not the building. She may even have been out of the White Hut when she passed the intel on to someone to leak it, so axlegreasy has another parsing out.

I'm thinking the same thing. She has the personality for doing that. Hatred of the U.S. and the love for Zippo.

[TigersEye]

If Axelhole is telling Steponallofus the leaks aren’t from the WH I guess it’s pretty sure the leaks were from the WH.

[csmusaret]

I think the authors of all of this work have said that the White House was not the source of this information,” Axelrod told me this morning on “This Week.”

And of course Stephy asked for Axelrod’s sources for that statement.

[RummyChick]

very interesting info on WHI.

Feinstein said

“What we’re seeing…is an Anschluss, an avalanche of leaks. And it’s very, very disturbing. You know, it’s dismayed our allies. It puts American lives in jeopardy. It puts our nation’s security in jeopardy.”

Ulsterman said:
“The term Anschluss is most often associated with Nazi Germany – namely the reunification of Adolph Hitler’s native Austria with the German state – a move that was forbidden by the post WWI Treaty of Versailles. Casual observers of the Feinstein interview were likely confused by the Senator’s use of the term, or simply ignored it altogether.”

And the WHI said about Kam Kuwata..you will have to find it. FR still doesn’t like WHI

But the use of the word doesn’t make sense in Feinstein’s comments..unless it was done on purpose for some reason.

[Gator113]

There are two critical rules about lying.

First, NEVER lie.

Second, if you ever do lie, NEVER stop.

Axelrod lives by the second rule.

[rodguy911]

Everything is in campaign election mode for the regime at the axelrod level.

They need dough, lots of it.

Rumors were last time some 300 mill came from the mid-east.Perhaps some of that dough dried up when the faux ben laden hit supposedly occurred,who knows.

If releasing a few state secrets that will aid terrorists causes and pry loose some dough from say the saudis who play both sides, well why the hell not. Getting caught however was never in the game plan.