Mum on captured spies, WH blasts Iran

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White House Press Secretary Jay Carney refused to comment on reports that CIA operatives have been captured in Iran and Lebanon, but he volunteered strong criticism of Iran almost as a proxy answer to the question about CIA captures.

“I’m not going to comment on intelligence matters from here,” Carney said at the press briefing when asked about the CIA peratives, but he volunteered to comment on “Iranian behavior in general.”

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