White House Mistakenly Reveals Identity of Afghanistan Top Spy in Email

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White House Mistakenly Reveals Identity of Afghanistan Top Spy in Email
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The identities of the CIA's (http://mashable.com/category/cia/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) top agents in various countries are usually a closely guarded secret, a policy designed to protect their safety. But on Sunday, in a bizarre and unusual slip-up, the White House (http://mashable.com/category/white-house/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) outed Afghanistan's top CIA ******r in a list distributed via email to reporters.

As part of President Barack Obama's (http://mashable.com/category/barack-obama/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) surprise visit to U.S. troops in Afghanistan, he participated in a military briefing with a number of U.S. officials. The White House distributed the full list of participants in the briefing — including the name and title of the CIA's chief of station in Kabul — to reporters traveling with the president, as first reported by The Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/white-house-mistakenly-identifies-cia-chief-in-afghanistan/2014/05/25/ac8e80cc-e444-11e3-8f90-73e071f3d637_story.html?hpid=z1). Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/26/white-house-afghanistan-cia-******r/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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