Obama leak 'scandal' is wildly overblown - CNN

Taking excerpts from this article (esp when limited to four paragraphs, which seems to be the acceptable limit) cannot really can't provide a good representative sample of the article. there is so much in the article, it really needs to be read in it's entirety.

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http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/20/opinion/bergen-washington-leak-scandal/index.html

Peter Bergen

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Have those leaks, as Romney claimed on Monday, "put American interests and our people in jeopardy"?

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But did this really hurt U.S. national security? After all, the Iranians know that their problems with the centrifuges at Natanz are caused by cyberattacks and have publicly said so for the past two years. On November 29, 2010, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told reporters in Tehran, "They succeeded in creating problems for a limited number of our centrifuges with the software they had installed in electronic parts."

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The irony of all the ruckus about the recent leaks is that the Obama administration, which came to power promising more government transparency, has been the most aggressive administration in U.S. history in its prosecution of alleged leaks to the press. It has invoked in six cases the rarely used 1917 Espionage Act to go after Americans not working for foreign intelligence services but who have leaked to the media.

By and large, the leaks are a Washington pseudoscandal that hasn't really harmed national security but have instead helped to foster a legitimate debate about the future of drone warfare and of cyberattacks that promise to transform warfare as much as fast-moving tanks changed the face of war in the mid-20th century.