Thread: Feinstein Leaks Classified Info-- US Drones Flown From Paki

Brilliant.

Senator Dianne Feinstein (Dem-CA) leaked classified information to the press yesterday damaging US and Pakistani operations against Taliban radicals.
The Chicago Tribune reported:


A senior U.S. lawmaker said Thursday that unmanned CIA Predator aircraft operating in Pakistan are flown from an airbase inside that country, a revelation likely to embarrass the Pakistani government and complicate its counterterrorism collaboration with the United States.

The disclosure by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, marked the first time a U.S. official had publicly commented on where the Predator aircraft patrolling Pakistan take off and land.

At a hearing, Feinstein expressed surprise at Pakistani opposition to the ongoing campaign of Predator-launched CIA missile strikes against Al Qaeda targets along Pakistan's northwest border.

"As I understand it, these are flown out of a Pakistani base," she said of the planes.

The basing of the pilotless aircraft in Pakistan suggests a much deeper relationship with the United States on counterterrorism matters than has been publicly acknowledged. Such an arrangement would be at odds with protests lodged by officials in Islamabad and could inflame anti-American sentiment in the country.

The CIA declined to comment, but former U.S. intelligence officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information, confirmed that Feinstein's account was accurate.
Nice work, senator.

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/ ... fo-us.html

Good grief!! How stupid is the woman! Of course Pakistani has to create the impression they are opposed to the Predator-launched CIA missile strikes against Al Qaeda targets along Pakistan's northwest border! It's called self preservation Senator!!!!!!!

Well, since Clinton allowed missile targeting technology to be sold to China, what else can we expect from Democrat politicians?

She should be brought up on charges and removed from the US Senate. That is 100,000 times worse than Ted Stevens not reporting "gifts" he didn't even know he got.

Didn't Scooter Libby leak classified information regardign a CIA operative Vallery Plame and then was later tried for obstruction since he lied about releasing classified info under oath/

Not that I care about Scooter Libby, but Feinstein should atleast be investigated for leaking classified information.

Maybe she ought to act like a responsible American and an adult with information she is given, UNLESS, there was a need to start a war inside Pakistan and topple the new government, and they chose her as the leaker. I don't put anything past anyone inside the Beltway, or out in Langley.