men and women who are sworn to protect it. the only conceivable motive for such damaging and classified leaks of information is that it makes the president look good. we re going to talk to senator mccain in just a moment. the white house for the most part is flightily denying the charges. jay carney told reporters any suggestion that this administration has authorized intentional leaks of classified information for political gain is grossly irresponsible. i ll have senator mccain respond to that in a moment. now, all this outrage stems from a wave of news reports about secret operations overseas including a new york times article last week about u.s. cyber attacks on the computers i rarn uses to run the nuclear facilities. the reporter david sanger comes out and says his scoop is, quote, based on interviews with current and former officials involved in the program. now some of the information came from current officials working on the program. this is a direct quote from t