[PhiKapMom]

The IG does not take anyone's charges and launch an investigation. There has to be proof before a formal investigation is launched.

Anyone that thinks a spouse should sit in on Top Secret briefings without a clearance is wrong. I never discussed Top Secret with my husband years ago when I had access and never would. What stays in a briefing, stays within those walls, spouse or no spouse.

General Franks knows all the regulations regarding what a spouse can and cannot do. Whether he did this or not the investigation will point out -- the problem I see is that he left himself open to this and that should not have happened.

[Mo1]

I unsderstand and yes you are right .. I am just questioning the timing of all of this ..

[gov_bean_ counter]

Perhaps a link to the stories regarding Pentagon infighting over Iraq has been identified?

[Aliska]

Anyone that thinks a spouse should sit in on Top Secret briefings without a clearance is wrong. I never discussed Top Secret with my husband years ago when I had access and never would. What stays in a briefing, stays within those walls, spouse or no spouse.

ABSOLUTELY! Same here, and we didn't even cajole or pry to get information because we had RESPECT for government security. Maybe those rules were just for peons, ya suppose? I have know idea what wives of the top brass knew.

NO government official should divulge classified information to anyone who is not authorized, even the president of the US.