Further evidence of the close working relationship between the two countries came last week, when Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat who is chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the Predators are flown out of a base in Pakistan, not U.S. bases in Afghanistan, as many counterterrorism analysts had believed.
Her spokesman, Phil LaVelle, later said she was referring to a "front-page Washington Post story in March." But she made no reference to news reports in her remarks. Pakistan has since denied Ms. Feinstein's account, but former U.S. intelligence officials confirmed that it was accurate, lamenting the fact she stated it publicly. "It was a big mistake on her part," said one.
Why is this woman giving up American secrets so freely? I hope it is just simple incompetence and not some pathological need to weaken American foreign policy. Maybe she meant to say Afghanistan and accidentally said Pakistan. Whatever the case, a person with loose-lips like this should not be allowed to handle Top Secret information at all.
What is even worse is she is the head of the committee that has Top Secret information as its lifeblood. She should be quietly shown the door because she is not up to the job of protecting American secrets.
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