September 07, 2007
Hayden: Sources Clammed Up After Media Reports
CIA director Gen. Michael Hayden said today that less than 100 prisoners have been held in secret detention. He said a few other things too.
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Yahoo: He said Friday that such leaks to news organizations harm national security. Hayden said that in one case, news leaks gave a foreign government information that allowed it to prosecute and jail one of the CIA's sources.The fourth estate becomes a third column."The revelations had an immediate, chilling effect on our ability to collect against a top-priority target," he said.
Hayden said other media reports "cost us several promising counterterrorism and counterproliferation assets" because CIA sources stopped cooperating out of fear they would be exposed.
He said "more than one" foreign government's intelligence services have withheld intelligence that they otherwise would have shared with the U.S. government because they feared it would be leaked. "That gap in information puts Americans at risk," Hayden said, according to the written remarks.
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