By Claudia Rosett On May 24, 2013
Chilling as it is to read the search warrant for the emails of Fox News reporter James Rosen, we can at least say this much regarding the relevant officials of the Justice Department [1]: They were thorough. The 36-page document goes into all sorts of detail about Rosen’s cultivation of a source, and the comings, goings, phone calls, and messages potentially related to his June 11, 2009 story reporting information on North Korea leaked from a CIA report.
By contrast, the leaked CIA report itself appears to have contained a remarkable amount of slop, to judge by Rosen’s account [2].
He reported that “the Central Intelligence Agency has learned, through sources inside North Korea” that there were four actions the North Korean regime planned to take in response to a United Nations sanctions resolution that was expected to pass later that week. These four actions:
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By contrast, the leaked CIA report itself appears to have contained a remarkable amount of slop, to judge by Rosen’s account [2].
He reported that “the Central Intelligence Agency has learned, through sources inside North Korea” that there were four actions the North Korean regime planned to take in response to a United Nations sanctions resolution that was expected to pass later that week. These four actions:
1) Another nuclear testWhat’s wrong with this collection of CIA secrets about North Korea?
2) Reprocessing all North Korea’s spent fuel rods into weapons-grade plutonium
3) A major escalation in North Korea’s uranium enrichment program
4) The launch of another Taepodong-2 intercontinental ballistic missile
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