U.S. General: 2015 lead on ISIS leader al-Baghdadi “went dead” after NY Times leak https://t.co/lNXeGNqRNGpic.twitter.com/mxdZWUuUDz
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The media continues to represent a major national security threat. As was revealed by General Tony Thomas who heads Special Operations Command.
“We have absolutely dismantled his network,” Gen. Tony Thomas, speaking of Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, said at the Aspen Security Forum. “I mean everyone who worked for him initially is dead or gone. Everybody who stepped to the plate the next time [is] dead or gone. Down through a network where we have killed, in a conservative estimate, 60,000 to 70,000 of his followers, his army.”
“That was a very good lead. Unfortunately, it was leaked in a prominent national newspaper about a week later and that lead went dead,” Thomas said. “The challenge we have [is] in terms of where and how our tactics and procedures are discussed openly. There's a great need to inform the American public about what we're up to. There's also great need to recognize things that will absolutely undercut our ability to do our job.”
Thomas appeared to be referring to a New York Times report in June 2015 that detailed how American intelligence agencies had “extracted valuable information.”
Now, unlike a lot of the current leaks, this one obviously was not targeting Trump. But it is part of a pattern of the media undermining national security to run stories with very little concern for the consenquences. The same bubble that leads the media to pursue radical left-wing agendas also distances its people from the consequences of their actions.
It's a long way from the headquarters of the New York Times to the men on the ground risking their lives in Iraq or Syria. It's a long way from the Yazidi victims of ISIS to the media. And so it goes.