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Title: Barack Obama: Afghanistan leaks firing offense Post by: JohnBrowdie on November 18, 2009, 12:43:03 PM I doubt he is willing to fire rahn emanuel, and that's were the leaks are coming from. emanuel is leaking to create momentum for the "cut and run" faction within the administration. if we learned nothing from his tenure in the clinton white house, we should have learned that he considers leaking a valid political weapon.
Quote Barack Obama: Afghanistan leaks firing offense BEIJING — President Barack Obama says he is angry about leaks from his deliberations on more troops for Afghanistan, and said he considers such disclosures a firing offense. Obama, during a round of four network interviews before he left China for South Korea, told Chip Reid of CBS News: "[W]e have these deliberations in the Situation Room for a reason – because we are making decisions that are life-and-death, that affect how our troops will be able to operate in a theater of war." With Obama nearing an announcement on whether to deploy additional troops to Afghanistan – within the “next several weeks,” he told NBC — numerous news reports have speculated where he is headed, with information from officials about the options he is considering. More (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29659.html) |