Whoops! @WhiteHouse pool report on #Obama trip to #Afghanistan includes the name of the #CIA station chief in Kabul. — Matthew Rosenberg (@mrosenbergNYT) May 25, 2014

President Obama made a surprise appearance in Afghanistan on Sunday.

There is now buzz that the White House revealed the name of the CIA station chief in Kabul to a pool of reporters:

White House breaks with protocol by publicly identifying name of CIA station chief in Kabul to pool reporters. — Rajiv Chandrasekaran (@rajivscribe) May 25, 2014

A huge blunder, if the reports are accurate.

Good grief RT @rajivwashpost: White House breaks with protocol by publicly identifying name of CIA station chief in Kabul to pool reporters. — T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) May 25, 2014

Who need Wikileaks? MT "@rajivwashpost: White House breaks protocol & publicly identifies name of Kabul #CIA station chief 2 pool reporters” — CIA Spy Girl (@CIAspygirl) May 25, 2014

Sigh, how do you "inadvertently" disclose the identity of the CIA station chief in Kabul? How many layers of review did that slip past? — Bradley P. Moss, Esq (@BradMossEsq) May 25, 2014



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Face palm! "@rajivwashpost: White House breaks with protocol by publicly identifying name of CIA station chief in Kabul to pool reporters." — M. (@malasqalani) May 25, 2014

Twitchy will update this story if more details become available.

Updates:

Accidentally outing your CIA station chief is…less than ideal. http://t.co/YHfRqC0lbm — Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) May 26, 2014

Like many other reporters, I do have the name of the "Chief of Station" on an email that's sitting in my Inbox. — Niels Lesniewski (@nielslesniewski) May 26, 2014

@nielslesniewski not a small list of recipients either. At all. Crazy. — Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) May 26, 2014



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