Secret report mislabelled: US intelligence chief

April 19, 2013 01:42

The top US intelligence official today disclosed that a congressman inadvertently revealed classified information when he read aloud a passage from a Defence Intelligence Agency report that said North Korea had the knowhow to put a nuclear warhead on a missile.

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the paragraph read out loud by Rep. Doug Lamborn, a Republican, at a House hearing last week was "miscategorised as unclassified".

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