President
Barack Obama's campaign strategy, at least as it regards foreign
affairs, consists almost entirely of boasting of the various covert
operation successes that occurred on his watch, and leaking government
secrets to buttress these boasts.
This strategy began just days after the successful elimination of arch-terrorist Osama Bin laden in May of last year. Instead of being an operation cloaked in mystery and "no comments," almost every detail of the raid was almost immediately released, from the unit which conducted the daring operation to the CIA operation to successfully track Bin Laden to his Abbottabad compound. That particular leak cost a Pakistani doctor, Shakil Afridi, his freedom, and may also cost him his life. Ironically the only secrets that the administration has attempted to protect from that day are the photos showing the deceased Bin Laden, lest pictures of the dead terrorist offend Islamist sensibilities, and which details about the raid the administration provided to Hollywood filmmakers so they could produce the story of the raid, coincidently to get it in theaters before the election.
And there have been plenty other leaks from this Administration. During the State of the Union speech, President Obama publicly congratulated Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta regarding another Navy Seal operation, even while it was still under way. The Obama administration also surely was behind a leak to the New York Times that exposed the American and Israeli allied efforts to conduct cyberwar against the Iranian regime, in an effort to delay Tehran's nuclear weapons program. Further, the article in the Times may only a tip of the iceberg -- it was an excerpt of a newly released book, "Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power," by David Sanger, which has recently been released, once again, coincidently just in time to influence the election.
This strategy began just days after the successful elimination of arch-terrorist Osama Bin laden in May of last year. Instead of being an operation cloaked in mystery and "no comments," almost every detail of the raid was almost immediately released, from the unit which conducted the daring operation to the CIA operation to successfully track Bin Laden to his Abbottabad compound. That particular leak cost a Pakistani doctor, Shakil Afridi, his freedom, and may also cost him his life. Ironically the only secrets that the administration has attempted to protect from that day are the photos showing the deceased Bin Laden, lest pictures of the dead terrorist offend Islamist sensibilities, and which details about the raid the administration provided to Hollywood filmmakers so they could produce the story of the raid, coincidently to get it in theaters before the election.
And there have been plenty other leaks from this Administration. During the State of the Union speech, President Obama publicly congratulated Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta regarding another Navy Seal operation, even while it was still under way. The Obama administration also surely was behind a leak to the New York Times that exposed the American and Israeli allied efforts to conduct cyberwar against the Iranian regime, in an effort to delay Tehran's nuclear weapons program. Further, the article in the Times may only a tip of the iceberg -- it was an excerpt of a newly released book, "Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power," by David Sanger, which has recently been released, once again, coincidently just in time to influence the election.
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