How Dare You Accuse Obama Of Leaking Secrets

He finds the accusation offensive.

"The notion that my white house would purposely release classified national security information is offensive. It's wrong. And people I think need to have a better sense of how I approach this office and how the people around me approach this office. We're dealing with issues that can touch on the safety and security of the American people. … We don't play with that … it is a source of consistent frustration when this stuff happens… we will continue to let everybody know in government or after they leave government that they have certain obligations that they should carry out."

Gee! Why would anyone think that the White House is intentionally leaking for its own political advantage - just because they opened up national security secrets to a film company making a movie meant to benefit Obama?

Judicial Watch posted what it said were 153 pages of Pentagon documents and 113 pages of CIA documents about the film project. The group said it had obtained the documents through a lawsuit it filed under the Freedom of Information Act, which can be used to force government agencies to release some undisclosed information.

Among the disclosures were that the filmmakers had access to top White House officials, were given the identity of a SEAL team member involved in the raid and taken to the top-secret "vault" where the raid was planned.

The group said the documents lay out contacts between White House, CIA and Pentagon officials and Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal, the director and screenwriter of "The Hurt Locker," a 2008 film about the Iraq war that won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

The film project, titled "Zero Dark Thirty" about the May 2011 raid on bin Laden's compound in Pakistan, became a focus of controversy last year when a New York Times columnist reported that its producers planned to release it weeks before the November 6 election in which President Barack Obama is seeking re-election. That has been pushed back to December.

Neither the CIA nor the Pentagon disputed the authenticity of the documents.