H/t: Mediaite for the video.
Gawker has an interesting question that could use a good answer:
Did you hear Michele Bachmann at Tuesday's Republican debate saying that terrorists have made six different attempts on Pakistan's 15 nuclear sites? That's not information that's ever been made public! Which raises the question: did Bachmann just leak classified information to a national audience?
Uh, yikes? Or was she just providing another "a woman told me Gardasil causes retardation" moment? In which case, she was lying, so it's a lose-lose for her. For us.
This elected representative is actually on the House Intelligence Committee. Oxymoron much?
As for whether she committed the ultimate no-no, I report, you deride.
Yochi J. Dreazen at The National Journal:
[N]o U.S. official has publicly said that all of the sites were vulnerable to militant attack or confirmed that any of them had previously come under any form of jihadist attack.
But Jeffrey Goldberg at The Atlantic disagrees:
I have to cordially disagree with Yochi's conclusions here. The joint Atlantic/National Journal cover story on Pakistan's nuclear program, written by Yochi's colleague Marc Ambinder and by yours truly, contains the information that Yochi suggests is material declassified on stage by Bachmann.
Either way, the controversy itself drives home the point that Michele Bachmann is a walking gaffe factory who has no business holding office and who hasn't a prayer (no pun) of becoming president.
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