{"id":3178,"date":"2016-10-02T21:18:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T21:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=3178"},"modified":"2016-10-02T21:18:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T21:18:43","slug":"congressionally-requested-action-released-department-defense-information-media-june-14-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/congressionally-requested-action-released-department-defense-information-media-june-14-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressionally Requested Action on Released Department of Defense Information to the Media, June 14, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>In a letter dated August 9, 2011, the Honorable Peter King, Chairman of the Committee\u00a0on Homeland Security, U.S. House of Representatives, cited concerns involving\u00a0&#8220;ongoing leaks of classified information regarding sensitive military operations.&#8221;\u00a0Chairman King referenced an August 6, 2011, New York Times op-ed column that claims,\u00a0&#8220;Administration officials may have provided filmmakers with details of the raid that\u00a0successfully killed Usama Bin Laden (UBL).&#8221; According to this article, filmmakers\u00a0Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal received &#8220;top-level access to the most classified mission\u00a0in history.&#8221; Chairman King requested that Department of Defense (DoD) and Central\u00a0Intelligence Agency (CIA) Inspectors General explore related matters and respond to the\u00a0following questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;What consultations, if any, occurred between members of the Executive\u00a0Office of the President, and Department of Defense and\/or CIA officials,\u00a0regarding the advisability of providing Hollywood executives with access to\u00a0covert military operators and clandestine CIA officers to discuss the UBL\u00a0raid?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Will a copy of this film be submitted to the military and CIA for prepublication\u00a0review, to determine if special operations tactics, techniques and\u00a0procedures, or Agency intelligence sources and methods, would be revealed\u00a0by its release?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;How was the attendance of filmmakers at a meeting with special operators\u00a0and Agency officers at CIA Headquarters balanced against those officers&#8217;\u00a0duties to maintain their covers? How will cover concerns be addressed going\u00a0forward?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;What steps did the Administration take to ensure that no special operations\u00a0tactics, techniques, and procedures were compromised during those meetings?&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This report responds to specific questions posed by Chairman King. In conducting this project, we focused exclusively on DoD equities and interests. Additionally, we reviewed applicable laws, regulations, DoD Directives and Instructions; reviewed and analyzed numerous documents and emails obtained from DoD components; and interviewed numerous personnel from DoD components.<\/p>\n<h3>The Investigation<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/ig\/DODIG-2013-092.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" \/>\u00a0Congressionally Requested Action on Released Department of Defense Information to the Media, June 14, 2013<\/a> [19 Pages, 1.5MB]<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/ig\/DODIG-2013-092.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background In a letter dated August 9, 2011, the Honorable Peter King, Chairman of the Committee\u00a0on Homeland Security, U.S. House of Representatives, cited concerns involving\u00a0&#8220;ongoing leaks of classified information regarding sensitive military operations.&#8221;\u00a0Chairman King referenced an August 6, 2011, New York Times op-ed column that claims,\u00a0&#8220;Administration officials may have provided filmmakers with details of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,45],"tags":[897,158,170,547],"class_list":{"0":"post-3178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-government","8":"category-government-accountability-i-g-reports","9":"tag-accountability","10":"tag-congress","11":"tag-inspector-general","12":"tag-osama-bin-laden"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-10-02_14-18-16.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}