###For the Record
Washington Post columnist Marc A. Thiessen: "Leaks have consequences. Just ask Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan, who was kidnapped in retaliation for allowing the United States to carry out a special operations raid in Tripoli that captured a senior al-Qaeda leader, Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, known as Abu Anas al-Libi. How did the kidnappers know that the prime minister had approved the raid? ... [T]he Obama administration exposed the Libyan government's cooperation in a top-secret covert action in order to bolster the president against domestic political criticism. It gets worse. ... [T]he [New York] Times revealed that a second raid had been planned, but not carried out, 'to seize a militia leader suspected of carrying out the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on the United States diplomatic mission in Benghazi.' ... With the leak that the Libyans approved both raids, and the kidnapping of the Libyan prime minister, his government probably will not authorize more such operations for the foreseeable future. ... Even when this administration gets something right, it can't seem to get it right."
