Posted by Tina
Did Feinstein Reveal War Secrets? – Washington Times Editorial
** When reporters asked President Franklin Roosevelt where Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle’s raiders launched their daring 1942 raid on the Japanese mainland, he puckishly answered, from our new secret base at Shangri-La. *** Contrast Roosevelt’s slyness with Sen. Diane Feinstein’s recent comment regarding the secret location of the launch sites for Predator hunter/killer drones As I understand it, these are flown out of a Pakistani base. *** Sen. Feinstein’s defense for discussing this highly sensitive information, that she was only repeating what she read in the papers, is greatly unconvincing. *** It is true that The Washington Post first reported Predators operating out of bases in Pakistan, and the senator’s flak catcher Philip J. LaVelle says that this report was what she was referring to. But there is a difference between making an allegation in a local paper and having the chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence confirm it. After all, her remark was as I understand it, not according to the papers. *** Presumably Sen. Feinstein knows the truth of the matter. Will she go on the record saying the reporting was wrong? The CIA will not, and the Pentagon has no comment. **