Michael Scheuer: Media ‘Anti-Agency, Think it’s Fun to Put People at Risk’
Fox News's Steve Doocy and former CIA officer Michael Scheuer took the gossip site Gawker to task Friday for claiming to out the identity of the CIA officer responsible for orchestrating the bib Laden raid in May. “I think most of the media is anti-Agency, and they think it's fun to put people at risk,” said Scheuer. [VIDEO SOON] Scheuer also pointed out that the story was not getting nearly as much coverage as the Valerie Plame scandal. “I think it's much worse. Ms. Plame probably didn't have a lot of enemies around the world that remember going to come looking for them. But this fellow responsible for Osama bin Laden's death or in part for it is certainly at risk.” He further noted that the mainstream media has a history of bias against American intelligence services. “For example, you know, the Pulitzer Prize for treason, if I remember correctly, went to the woman at the Washington Post who exposed the Agency's black sites during the rendition program. So the media and the media establishment rewards this kind of conduct,” said Scheuer. Doocy also pointed out that there was no evidence that the individual highlighted by Gawker is even the agent in question. “Steve, the average high school yearbook staff has more integrity and common sense than Gawker or AP. They might have put an entirely mistaken personality on someone's bull's eye. It's an extraordinarily reckless unprofessional thing to do,” said Scheuer. “The news was bin Laden was killed. The officers in the military and the Agency responsible for that should have been congratulated, end of story. No one needs to know anybody who was involved in that operation.” A transcript of the exchange, which aired at 6:51 a.m. on Friday, follows.
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