Thursday, July 26, 2012

Tom Donilon named as source of those White House leaks

Foreign Policy Romney advisor accuses Donilon of leaking to the New York Times
I predict firings, but expect to see smaller fish to falling on their swords, protecting Obama.
Donilon
"A top advisor to Mitt Romney's campaign on Wednesday accused U.S. National Security Advisor Tom Donilon of leaking classified intelligence information to New York Timesreporter David Sanger.  
"The advisor, former George W. Bush envoy to Sudan Richard Williamson, was speaking during a debate at Washington's Brookings Institution with former senior Pentagon official Michèle Flournoy, who has emerged as one of PresidentBarack Obama's top foreign-policy surrogates on the campaign trail." (emphases in the original)
Donilon worked as assistant secretary of state for public affairs and has served as the Clinton administration's Secretary of State chief of staff. Although he has no military experience and worked as a lobbyist, Donilon was "intimately involved in many major foreign policy issues, including negotiating the Bosnian peace agreement and the expansion of NATO". Donilon figures prominently during formulation of strategy for Afghanistan and associated discussions in Bob Woodward's 2010 book, "Obama's Wars."Donilon was 'criticized' by General Jones who once disparaged Donilon, for his lack of overseas experience, telling him that as a result: "You have no credibility with the military," according to Bob Woodward's "Obama's Wars." Jones said that Donilon was not good in his dealings with his staff at the National Security Council, displaying "too little feel for the people who work day and night....". Donilon did visit Afghanistan March 2010 during President Obama's six-hour late-night visit to the country.
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Yahoo News; Naming Donilon as Possible White House Leak is Important  "All of this adds up to questioning the type of people President Obama has surrounded himself with. .... By naming Donilon as someone who could be connected to the leaks... so the president will have to fight a war on another front and spread his talking time thinner."
2010, Daily Beast prophesied: Donilon: More Feared Than Loved  "According to Bob Woodward’s new book, Obama's Wars, Gates told General Jones that Donilon would be a “disaster” as national security adviser."



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