"The notion that my White House would purposely release classified national security information is offensive."
So said Barack Obama following allegations that classified information was being leaked to the media. Why did he say my White House instead of my administration? Was that a Freudian slip telling us what Obama thinks: The White House is his house? Why say release instead of leak? This is a story about the leaking of secret information. This is not a story about the administration releasing information in a Friday evening document dump. Did Obama err and say release because he approves of the leaks? And, lastly, why use the word offensive? Instead of being outraged that someone is leaking cyber warfare intelligence to the media, Obama is more worried about an assumed attack on his character.
What Obama should have been offended by was an audience thinking he would make a morally depraved joke about his own wife. That happened.
I'm waiting, but not holding my breath, for him to tell that audience of supporters how offended he was.
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