Gates Irked By Recent Leaks: ‘Everybody Out There Ought to Just Shut Up’

Obama promised to have the most transparent administration ever.
Someone has to keep the promise. Obama isn’t.
Is Gates afraid that Obama’s incompetency will be discovered-we already know.

I agree with Gates but leaks having been going on since the Bush administration. Seems we cannot keep anything secret.

This demonstrates just how weak this administration is and his actions make all of us feel our country is in good hands to keep us safe. We really do have dumb,dumber and dumbest running this country. I surely trust them running our health care…not!

The leaks are making the press look like idiots more than the administration. I think I’ve heard three different decisions attributed to Obama at this point. How could we possibly tell leaks from a bored reporter making something up at this point?
Obama has already doubled the American lives on the line in Afghanistan. I have no problem with a complete review being done – especially one that takes the time to work out the very complicated question of the exit strategy. A question that McCrystal’s report did not address at all. Nor should it – it’s not the military’s job to figure out the diplomatic, government structure, and social condition required for exit. It is Obama’s. American troops shouldn’t be deployed on a whim or for a nice photo shoot.

What a big cry baby.
Chris Wallace was right.

“American troops shouldn’t be deployed on a whim or for a nice photo shoot. ”
Unless they’re coming out of the back of a C10 in Dover in caskets, apparently.
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Stop insulting the fallen soldiers who were returned. The President showed them great honor – for you to cheapen it to push your (ever so important opinion) and partisan political interpretation is shameful. Let the fallen have their honor.

Mr. Scrubbed Quote from the NYTimes,
“The images and the sentiment of the president’s five-hour trip to Delaware were intended by the White House to convey to the nation that Mr. Obama was not making his Afghanistan decision lightly or in haste.”
I’d like you to meet Ms. Tierra
“The President showed them great honor – for you to cheapen it to push your (ever so important opinion) and partisan political interpretation is shameful.”
It’s not my partisan political interpretation. It’s a disgusting, craven, political act by this president.

“The images and the sentiment of the president’s five-hour trip to Delaware were intended by the White House to convey to the nation that Mr. Obama was not making his Afghanistan decision lightly or in haste.”
Do you know what the words “images”, “trip”, “Delaware”, “White House”, “intended”, “convey” mean?

Oh, no, this guy’s an idiot, just like Obama.

“No its just your partisan interpretation of what the NYT wrote. ”
What’s your intepretation? I’m open to other views. Just not straight denials like others have been doing.

“What’s your intepretation? I’m open to other views. Just not straight denials like others have been doing.”
Its pretty simple.
He wanted to go down to see the troops coming back from Dover.
He knew his presence would mean media coverage (far more than has occurred since the first casualties returned where the media was allowed if the family agreed which is a sad reflection on the media and ourselves if you ask me) so they asked family members.
Some families realizing the President would bring more media coverage that usual declined to have the media cover their family members return.
Do you really think a President standing in front of a flag draped coffin is a good photo op?

“Clearly, according to the NYT, he and his handlers thought it would convey to the country that he wasn’t taking any troop decisions lightly.”
Or maybe not since they removed that.
Perhaps an editor asked the writer to back up the statement and the writer had none.
The whole thing obviously became an embarrassment to the right wingers as they have tried every way they can to undermine the appearance.
Poor Liz Cheney had to make up a lie about Bush going to Dover all the time to try and execute some CYA.

Scrubbed in the exact way that Obama’s “shout-out” was removed from video clips and completely ignored.
You’re not being realistic at all if you can’t recognize that there are some people who work in the media who actively try to protect Obama’s reputation.

Here’s one way the President can stop the leaks….MAKE A FRICKIN DECISION!!!

“That is most likely. Good journalism does’t rely on rumor or guess work or innuendo, but rather on facts.”
The same NYT that put out that hit piece about McCain and that lobbyist? You know the one, the one that was nothing but guess work, rumor and innuendo.
The Grey Lady doesn’t have the sterling reputation it used to.

“nor journalistic ethics and application. ”
That’s just rich. Yeah, Billy, today’s NYT are pillars of ethics and “journalistic application”.
You’re living in a fantasy world. I understand the necessity to create this false construct, the cognitive dissonance must be approaching some physical pain threshold. It’ll all feel better once some of that mental pressure is relieved. Have you considered trepanation?

“I have been appalled by the amount of leaking that has been going on in this process.”
This is hysterical. These guys reveled in the leaks that brought grief to Bush.
Schadenfreude!
Calling Mr. Schadenfreude!

This is hysterical. These guys reveled in the leaks that brought grief to Bush.
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Hogwash. Gates was also Bush’s Secretary of Defense – you mean he used to revel in the leaks before? I don’t think so.

And speaking of the slobbering media, they all rushed out there in April to take pictures and write stories. Now the only one who takes pictures is the Associated Press who provides photos to 4,000 media outlet. The rest can’t be bothered so they just buy them from the AP. That’s disgusting.”
Very much agreed.
The media should cover casualties if the family says its ok.
That they have not bothered to do so beyond a single photographer until Obama was in Dover is reprehensible.

From reports of soldiers at the scene, we’ve learned that there was no entrance to the killing room for about an hour after the shooting, no ambulances, and no medical personnel allowed in. This caused even more soldiers’ deaths. Why were soldiers allowed to lay there dying for an hour with no medical assistance and very few policemen?
Sources said that only civilian helicopters were used, no military. WHY? Where were the ambulances and military police? Where did the other 2 shooters disappear to, and were never heard about since. How did Hasan “arise from the dead” after 8 hours?
I believe the top military brass knew about Hasan’s beliefs and used him as a “patsy” to gin up American support for these awful wars we hate. The military is HOPING WE ALL TELL OBAMA TO SEND MORE TROOPS!
And yes, we hear that Bush Sr. was there to get money stashed there 15 years ago. He and the Clintons know where all the stolen taxpayer funds are — their offshore accounts and illegal trading platforms.
and DON’T TAKE THE H1N1 VACCINATION!
Why isn’t Napolitano at Homeland Security, Dept of Justice, and the FBI arresting these criminals and Muslim jihadist in U.S. mosques. Seems they’d rather focus on returning veterans and tea-party folks.