-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via CQ Politics.
[snip] A congressional trip to Iraq this weekend was supposed to be a secret. But the cat's out of the bag now, thanks to a member of the House Intelligence Committee who broke an embargo via Twitter. A delegation led by House Minority Leader John A. Boehner , R-Ohio, arrived in Iraq earlier today, and because of Rep. Peter Hoekstra , R-Mich., the entire world — or at least Twitter.com readers—now know they're there. "Just landed in Baghdad," messaged Hoekstra, a former chairman of the Intelligence panel and now the ranking member, who is routinely entrusted to keep some of the nation's most closely guarded secrets. Before the delegation left Washington, they were advised to keep the trip to themselves for security reasons. A few media outlets, including Congressional Quarterly, learned about it, but agreed not to disclose anything until the delegation had left Iraq. Nobody expected, though, that a lawmaker with such an extensive national security background would be the first to break the silence. And in such a big way. [snip] More: http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000003026945 - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFJjP0+q1pz9mNUZTMRAho6AJ9wZm2A9ywDAwH9yvVGuPJySZzADwCg+S5M pLyIRwgsoOAkf2fJcvN+iOg= =6RBd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
