CAVUTO: So let me ask you, Governor, it's hard to trace the steps that producers took when they released this report and told the world about it. But from what we understand, they did run this up sort of like the CIA flagpole — the White House flagpole just to let them know about it. And no one said, don't run it. What are you to make of that?
ROMNEY: Well, that was not what I heard but I'm not going to report on any conversations held directly with the ABC News folks who I did speak with. But I think that you have to have a process and we have to expect that the media in this country during a time of war when we have this war against violent jihad going on, now six years later, that we need to have the leaders of media either individually or come together and talk about responsible rules of reporting, and how to assure that nothing is reported that could be damaging to our national security.
This is — if there is a fault in the government, then we need to improve communications from the government. And if there is a fault in the reporting, then we have to do it there. But this strikes me as a very clear example of a decision to publish information which has the potential of being very damaging to our nation.
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