DOD Reviewing Release of Sensitive Info to Media

Rep. King calls it vindication of his call for investigation into DOD collaboration on bin Laden raid film

By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 9/28/2012 9:09:53 AM

The Department of Defense's Inspector General is expanding its review of how the department "interacts with the media" when it comes to the handling of sensitive or classified information, and how that information is released.

That is according to a memo released by Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security.

King called it an expansion of the probe he requested in August 2011 into leaks about the Osama bin Laden raid and the military's collaboration with the Sony Picture film Zero Dark Thirty.

King saw it as vindication of his concerns about that collaboration. "I commend the Department of Defense Inspector General for taking so seriously the concerns I raised beginning last year about the Obama Administration's extremely close, unprecedented, and potentially dangerous collaboration with these Hollywood filmmakers working on this election-year film."