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In past cases, you know from the "washington post" and other newspapers, administrations have said to newspapers, this is really serious national security stuff. we are asking you not to publish and sometimes newspapers will do this. as very th investigation goes forward that will be one of important questions, what if anything they tried to do. >> chris: and in the case of computer virus that was trying to sabotage iranian centrifuges, they pulled back information but its a good question. that ...

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The notion that my white house would purposely release kass fi -- classified national security information is offensive. >> welcome back to "hardball." that of course, was president obama on friday. about seven hours later, attorney general eric holder assigned two u.s. attorneys to look into possible leaks. in the past months, major stories involving national security have given rise to leak questions. one, a report on the u.s. effort to damage iranian nuclear capabilities with a computer virus...

Led to the arrest of a pakistani doctor. they had a double agent that penetrated al-qaeda in yemen and foiled a plot to bomb an airliner. president obama personally approved the kill list for drone strikes. u.s. and israel was behind the computer virus that sabotaged irans nuclear program. how damaging are they to our security? >> dianne feinstein thinks they are very damaging and she knows a lot more than i do what our enemy did know before these leaks. now, they know and put two and two togeth...

"washington post" and other newspapers, administrations have said to newspapers, this is really serious national security stuff. we are asking you not to publish and sometimes newspapers will do this. as very th investigation goes forward that will be one of important questions, what if anything they tried to do. >> chris: and in the case of computer virus that was trying to sabotage iranian centrifuges, they pulled back information but its a good question. that raises the big political issue, w...

No one knew about that, the program was leak to the associated press. that had to be such a narrow circle, it has to lead to people very high up in the white house. >> jamie: just as one example, the president announced that he must sign off on every single drone strike. i dont know whether theres protocol, but saying something like that, do you think -- would you classify that as trying to look tough on terror? >> sure he is. no one wants to know what the presidents doing. he is not supposed to...

"washington post" and other newspapers, administrations have said to newspapers, this is really serious national security stuff. we are asking you not to publish and sometimes newspapers will do this. as very th investigation goes forward that will be one of important questions, what if anything they tried to do. >> chris: and in the case of computer virus that was trying to sabotage iranian centrifuges, they pulled back information but its a good question. that raises the big political issue, w...

Led to the arrest of a pakistani doctor. they had a double agent that penetrated al-qaeda in yemen and foiled a plot to bomb an airliner. president obama personally approved the kill list for drone strikes. u.s. and israel was behind the computer virus that sabotaged irans nuclear program. how damaging are they to our security? >> dianne feinstein thinks they are very damaging and she knows a lot more than i do what our enemy did know before these leaks. now, they know and put two and two togeth...

but my sense is that one of them involves this long general election. is the public losing interest in the way we cover the presidential campaign? the justice department is investigating national security leaks to "the new york times" and critics blame the obama team for spilling some of the secrets that put the administration in a favorable light. >> a firestorm today as republicans claim the white house has been leaking national security secrets to the press, to make president obama ...

chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is joining us now with the breaking news. so the administration has been feeling clearly bipartisan pressure for several days now on these leaks. what do we know? >> look, its a time tested washington strategy leak unpleasant news on a friday night and hope the media is out drinking and too busy to pay attention. the president, joking a little bit, the president also was under a lot of pressure after his answers at a press conference today...