Special Forces scandal as officers are held 'for trying to leak secrets'

From The Daily Mail.

By STEPHEN WRIGHT, DAVID WILLIAMS and IAN DRURY
Last updated at 8:39 AM on 9th April 2011

Two senior Special Forces officers suspected of leaking details of highly sensitive covert operations have been arrested under the Official Secrets Act, the Daily Mail can reveal.
The unprecedented arrests came as members of the SAS and SBS were deployed in Libya in preparation for airstrikes and to liaise with rebels and identify stranded British oil workers for rescue.
It was unclear last night what the officers are suspected of leaking, but it is understood it involves attempts to pass it to a major broadcaster.
The investigation is focused primarily on information relating to the war in Afghanistan against the Taliban and Al Qaeda. But it is also looking at secret information the men had access to about Libya and other countries where Special Forces have been operating.
Such is the sensitivity of the case that the Cabinet Office, the Ministry of Defence and the Home Office are being regularly briefed on its progress by anti-terrorist officers. Whitehall officials last night described the allegations against the men, who would have had a high security clearance, as ‘extremely serious’.


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"Operation LeakS" Releases Initial Bank Of America Emails Indicating Premeditated Intent To Deceive Government And Auditors

From Zerohedge


From Operation LeakS' site, http://bankofamericasuck.com, here is the initial release of what appears to be a whistleblower's (former employee) disclosure that Brian Moynihan's firm is lying to the Federal government. The punchline is that this appears to be a concerted effort from the ground up to hide foreclosure data from auditors and the Fed in order to obtain select preferential treatment in a variety of housing related axes, in many instances to accelerate foreclosures...

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Oil Well Fixed? Yeah right.

Give me a break. It's a PR move like everything else. They want the stock market to go up or who knows what, so they claim they finally plugged it. I am not inclined to believe it. And now they say there is a seep. Just a little seep.

From Bloomberg.

July 19 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. government officials demanded to see BP Plc’s plans for opening its sealed Gulf of Mexico well after tests found a suspected leak seeping from the seabed...