CNN 2012-06-14

 We begin tonight with breaking news. We have just learnt that attorney general Eric Holder¹ has assigned two US attorneys to lead investigations³ of the possible leaking of classified information. The pressures have been building over the US leaks for a couple of days. Senator John McCain has claimed White House officials leak information about US counter terrorism efforts overseas to try to boost the president Obama's national security credentials⁴. The leak resulted in a wave of news report recently. Today, Obama once again deny the White House deliberately⁵ leaked the state secretes⁶. She, White House correspondent, Justine Yale is joining us now with the breaking news. The administration has been felling clearly, feeling by # and pressure for several days, now just account its leaks. What do we know?

 

Hi, Anderson. Well, look at the time-test Washington strategy, leak unpleasant news on Friday night and hope the Medias all drinking and too busy to pay attention over the president also. I am joking a little bit. The president also was under a lot of pressure after his answers at press conference today. When he didn't definitively⁷ say whether or not the administration was investigating its leaks. Here is the president.

 

What I am saying is that we consistently whenever there is classified information that is put out into the public. We try to find out where that came from. Ok, thank you very much everybody, thank you.

 

Well Anderson, the president someone in the Hill have as you say accused White House deliberately leaking this information to make president look like a strong commander achieve in the election year and the White House has emphatically denied that charge. And the question is, was anybody in the administration involved in sharing any of this information and that's this investigation² is helping⁸ to get to the bottom of. 

 

And clearly if you read some of these reports such as this article in New York Times about the program of computer virus use against Iran. I mean it does quote administration officials whether or not they were leaking classified information. I guess that what investigators⁹ will look into. Now someone in the Capitol Hill, senator McCain among them had called for officially independent investigation and a special council to be appointed. Clearly the White House is not going down that road. Do you think it is going to satisfy the critical sound of the Hill. We say that the White House, you know, the justice department should not have been investigating the White House.

 

Although some who are probably not going to be satisfied, but this is according to attorney general Holder's standard procedure and from this point of view, you have the state, two very senior prosecutors¹¹ were investigating them. Each is the US attorney. There is Ronald Machen who was nominated by president Obama a democrat¹², who is leading one of the investigations. But the other investigation is being led by a man named Rod J. Rosenstein and he was appointed by Gorge¹³ W Bush regionally. And he actually at one point served with Kantar, you remember him because he helped to investigate white water Monica Lewinsky affair. So hardly, you know, hardly a democrat, hardly a neutral, not to be you could say it is going to be president back pocket. And both are graduates of Harvard Law School, interestingly because the president was as well. And attorney general Holder has said that he has notified members of congress about this investigation but will continue to update them both members of the Intelligence Committee and # committee. So that should satisfy the members of congress who do insist on being captured # this sort of things, Anderson.

 

I mean you have been covering the White House for a while. How seriously the White House is taking this? How bad I mean, how much did they worry about this heavy blow back in president?

 

Well, look, this administration points out that it is true. They take leaks seriously and they have actually investigated it and prosecutors more leakers than other administrations which is someone ...

 

You take that all administrations combined they have another six ongoing¹⁴ cases.

 

Right, and they take a lot hit from the left forward because it is not something that is used to back democratic administrations. So they say they take it seriously and the president pointed¹⁰ that out today. He has yet tolerance¹⁵ for this. You know, let us think about this sort of investigations. Once they start, you never know where they lead and how long they last. So the political implication could be potentially damaging for this administration in the election year and I'd also finally add this is not going to be a good week for the president, not just leak story but here disappointing job's number is also a political damage with the campaign this week. So it has just been a tough one for the president I think he won't be glad for the weekend to come.

 

Yeah, and a difficult day, just stay around because I want to talk you more about that in just a moment another keep # report that president Obama really gave Republican today what some are calling it a gift when they said this at Friday press briefing.

1 holder   

n.持有者，占有者；(台，架等)支持物

参考例句：

• The holder of the office of chairman is reponsible for arranging meetings.担任主席职位的人负责安排会议。
• That runner is the holder of the world record for the hundred-yard dash.那位运动员是一百码赛跑世界纪录的保持者。

2 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

3 investigations   

（正式的）调查( investigation的名词复数 )； 侦查； 科学研究； 学术研究

参考例句：

• His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing. 他进行了深入彻底的调查，但没有发现什么。
• He often sent them out to make investigations. 他常常派他们出去作调查。

4 credentials   

n.证明，资格，证明书，证件

参考例句：

• He has long credentials of diplomatic service.他的外交工作资历很深。
• Both candidates for the job have excellent credentials.此项工作的两个求职者都非常符合资格。

5 deliberately   

adv.审慎地；蓄意地；故意地

参考例句：

• The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。
• They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。

6 secretes   

v.（尤指动物或植物器官）分泌( secrete的第三人称单数 )；隐匿，隐藏

参考例句：

• The pineal gland secretes melanin during times of relaxation and visualization. 松果体在放松时分泌黑色素是明白无误的。 来自互联网
• For example, the archegonium (female organ) of the moss Funaria secretes sucrose. 例如藓类颈卵器（雌性器官）分泌蔗糖。 来自互联网

7 definitively   

adv.决定性地，最后地

参考例句：

• None of the three super-states could be definitively conquered even by the other two in combination. 三个超级国家中的任何一国都不可能被任何两国的联盟所绝对打败。 来自英汉文学
• Therefore, nothing can ever be definitively proved with a photograph. 因此，没有什么可以明确了一张照片。 来自互联网

8 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

9 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

10 pointed   

adj.尖的，直截了当的

参考例句：

• He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
• She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。

11 prosecutors   

检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 )； 告发人； 起诉人； 公诉人

参考例句：

• In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
• You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。

12 democrat   

n.民主主义者，民主人士；民主党党员

参考例句：

• The Democrat and the Public criticized each other.民主党人和共和党人互相攻击。
• About two years later,he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.大约两年后，他被民主党人杰米卡特击败。

13 gorge   

n.咽喉，胃，暴食，山峡；v.塞饱，狼吞虎咽地吃

参考例句：

• East of the gorge leveled out.峡谷东面地势变得平坦起来。
• It made my gorge rise to hear the news.这消息令我作呕。

14 ongoing   

adj.进行中的，前进的

参考例句：

• The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
• The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。

15 tolerance   

n.宽容；容忍，忍受；耐药力；公差

参考例句：

• Tolerance is one of his strengths.宽容是他的一个优点。
• Human beings have limited tolerance of noise.人类对噪音的忍耐力有限。