Pentagon's top intel official being probed

WASHINGTON The Pentagon says its top intelligence official, who has been mentioned as a possible candidate to be the next CIA director, is under investigation in connection with information he provided to makers of a movie about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said Tuesday evening that the investigation of Michael Vickers is being conducted by the Pentagon's inspector general.

Vickers is the undersecretary of defense for intelligence.

Little said Vickers only provided unclassified information to the makers of the movie "Zero Dark Thirty," and that the session was arranged in July 2011 by the Pentagon's office of public affairs.

Little said Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has full confidence in Vickers.

[WiseAsOwl]

Anything to divert the attention from Obama and Benghazi. You Libs are going to let Obama get away with it, aren't you???? If a Repub had been responsible, the news media would have already had him ran out of office. He's your man... Enjoy him..

[gbgentleman]

Will you get over it already? GOP has a one track mind. You keep hammering one lie until it's finally proven a lie (and sometimes not even then) and then Rush takes you by the nose and tells you what lie to start going after next.

[lillyhorton]

Benghazi is over. Judges ruled it was a "SYSTEMATIC FAILURE". The people involved acted by the book but Benghazi was special and there wasn't a special plan to protect the embassy.

[askagain]

Sounds a little like a witch hunt. Did Vickers violate the law, ethics, or Pentagon rules or is he being sacrificed for the benefit of other people? There are people who may oppose the truth reaching the public.

[bluejacket2-2009]

Come on Barack... who is watching the hen house if not you... jeez.

[Sax1031]

the truth goes against a certain narrative.

shouldn't whistleblower protections come into place?