President Obama senior campaign adviser David Axelrod on Wednesday insisted the president did not authorize anyone at the White House to leak the classified national-security information that has led to congressional anger and a Justice Department probe.
“I can tell you that the president of the United States did not leak classified information, as Mitt Romney suggested yesterday, and he didn’t authorize the leak of information, as Mitt Romney suggested yesterday,” Axelrod told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
Axelrod’s statements are a shift from previous remarks where he denied that the leaks originated from anyone at the White House. “There were obvious leaks, but they weren’t from the White House,” he said in an interview in June.
On Tuesday, in a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) national convention in Reno, Nev., Romney accused President Obama of putting the nation at risk through politically motivated intelligence leaks and called for a special counsel to investigate the national-security disclosures.
Republicans have seized on comments from Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who suggested Monday that some of the classified leaks were coming from inside the White House.
“The White House has to understand that some of this is coming from their ranks,” Feinstein said during an address at the World Affairs Council.
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The buck stops where?
Axelrod, I believe you as much as I believer your lying boss
Of course he didn’t authorize anyone to leak information – he did it himself!
What are you afraid of Axelrod; the truth. I also want an investigation to why is the government buying jet fuel at $59 a gallon from a friend and donator to obama’s previous election versus $3.50 from the normal channel. This also must be investigated before elections
I didn’t realize one “authorizes” a leak.
Gotta love liberwacky double speak.