{"id":45830,"date":"2013-06-27T18:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T17:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/cias-plan-to-crush-leaks-gets-leaked\/45830\/"},"modified":"2013-06-27T18:00:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T17:00:37","slug":"cias-plan-to-crush-leaks-gets-leaked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/cias-plan-to-crush-leaks-gets-leaked\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA&#039;s Plan to Crush Leaks Gets Leaked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A CIA memo detailing the agency&#8217;s plans to crush leaks has itself been leaked.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"image-right\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/commondreams.org\/files\/imagecache\/headline_image\/article_images\/cialeakcrackdownleaked.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"imagecache imagecache-headline_image imagecache-default imagecache-headline_image_default\" width=\"275\" height=\"217\" \/><span class=\"caption\"> CIA director John Brennan <\/span><\/span>The <em>Associated Press<\/em> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/cia-cracks-down-its-own-stop-leaks\">reported<\/a> Wednesday evening that it had &#8220;obtained&#8221; a memo written by CIA director John Brennan\u2013a man <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.emptywheel.net\/2013\/05\/14\/if-undiebomb-2-0-is-one-of-the-worst-leaks-of-holders-career-why-is-john-brennan-cia-director\/\">tied to leaks of his own<\/a>\u2013describing a new campaign to keep CIA officials from leaking information to the media.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign is called &#8220;Honor the Oath,&#8221; the news agency reports, and aims to &#8220;reinforce [the CIA&#8217;s] corporate culture of secrecy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As Firedoglake&#8217;s DSWright <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.firedoglake.com\/2013\/06\/27\/cia-anti-leaking-campaign-memo-leaked\/\">notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For generations people have been saying that the CIA, mostly run by the elite and children of the elite, were gangsters for corporate capitalism. Now we know they view themselves more in a business context as well.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>AP<\/em> reports that the campaign was created as a result of a review of the agency&#8217;s security initiated by former CIA director David Petraeus last summer following a series of leaks.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">_________________________<\/p>\n<p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2013\/06\/27-1\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"CIA&#039;s Plan to Crush Leaks Gets Leaked\">Common Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A CIA memo detailing the agency&#8217;s plans to crush leaks has itself been leaked. CIA director John Brennan The Associated Press reported Wednesday evening that it had &#8220;obtained&#8221; a memo written by CIA director John Brennan\u2013a man tied to leaks of his own\u2013describing a new campaign to keep CIA officials from leaking information to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-45830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}