Whoops! @WhiteHouse pool report on #Obama trip to #Afghanistan includes the name of the #CIA station chief in Kabul.
— Matthew Rosenberg (@mrosenbergNYT) May 25, 2014
President Obama made a surprise appearance in Afghanistan on Sunday.
There is now buzz that the White House revealed the name of the CIA station chief in Kabul to a pool of reporters:
White House breaks with protocol by publicly identifying name of CIA station chief in Kabul to pool reporters.
— Rajiv Chandrasekaran (@rajivscribe) May 25, 2014
A huge blunder, if the reports are accurate.
Good grief RT @rajivwashpost: White House breaks with protocol by publicly identifying name of CIA station chief in Kabul to pool reporters.
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) May 25, 2014
Who need Wikileaks? MT "@rajivwashpost: White House breaks protocol & publicly identifies name of Kabul #CIA station chief 2 pool reporters”
— CIA Spy Girl (@CIAspygirl) May 25, 2014
@CIAspygirl @rajivwashpost Un-freakin-belieavable!
— The 6-fingered man (@DavisMountains) May 25, 2014
Sigh, how do you "inadvertently" disclose the identity of the CIA station chief in Kabul? How many layers of review did that slip past?
— Bradley P. Moss, Esq (@BradMossEsq) May 25, 2014
https://twitter.com/CustosDivini/status/470673316852682752
Face palm! "@rajivwashpost: White House breaks with protocol by publicly identifying name of CIA station chief in Kabul to pool reporters."
— M. (@malasqalani) May 25, 2014
Twitchy will update this story if more details become available.
Updates:
Accidentally outing your CIA station chief is…less than ideal. http://t.co/YHfRqC0lbm
— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) May 26, 2014
Like many other reporters, I do have the name of the "Chief of Station" on an email that's sitting in my Inbox.
— Niels Lesniewski (@nielslesniewski) May 26, 2014
[email protected] White House inadvertently identifies CIA station chief in Kabul http://t.co/0XgXpV2cgX via @washingtonpost”
— Lisa Myers (@LisaMyers) May 26, 2014
@nielslesniewski not a small list of recipients either. At all. Crazy.
— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) May 26, 2014
https://twitter.com/CustosDivini/status/470730755753377792
