Group attacking Obama for security leaks includes past talkers (to press Plame etc)
Source: LATimes
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Rustmann and two other key members of the group, all self-described Republicans, have a history of talking openly to the media about national security, a review of articles and transcripts shows.
Rustmann appeared on Fox News Hannity and Colmes in 2005 to discuss Valerie Plame Wilson, a covert CIA operations officer who was outed in July 2003 by members of the George W. Bush administration. A federal jury convicted I. Lewis Scooter Libby, who was chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, of four felony counts for his role in the crime.
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It isn't a big deal, he said about the illegal disclosure of the covert officers name. It was a light, nonofficial cover.
Scott Taylor, chairman of OPSEC, is a former Navy SEAL. An unsuccessful Republican candidate for Congress in Virginia in 2010, he sat down with NBC News last summer for a documentary titled Secrets of Seal Team Six. The film said the military had urged former SEALs not to talk.
And OPSEC member Chad Kolton, a former spokesman for the director of National Intelligence during the George W. Bush administration, helped make the office more accessible to reporters, including regular off-the-record briefings by senior analysts on global hot spots, according to a newswire report that announced his departure to form a communications firm.
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