Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill don’t agree on much these
days, but they agree that the Obama administration has a serious problem
with leaking classified information.
And
with national security in the balance, a group of congressional leaders
says there’s an urgent need to get things back in line.
“A special prosecutor can take years. We don’t have
years. We need to legislate, and we need to do things quickly,” Senate
Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said Thursday at a press conference of chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate intelligence committees.
(See also: 5 leaks that have Congress steamed)
The four legislators — Feinstein, Sen. Saxby Chambless (R-Ga.) and
Reps. Mike Rogers (R-Mich) and Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) — said they
met Thursday morning with James Clapper, the director of national
intelligence, and will receive a briefing from FBI Director Robert
Mueller later in the day.
But after a glut of stories about secret U.S. operations overseas –
from an Associated Press reports of foiled Yemeni bomb plots to drone
strikes in Pakistan to last week’s New York Times story confirming
long-suspected U.S. involvement in development of the computer virus
Stuxnet – they say it’s become clear that there’s a problem that the
administration hasn’t been able to address on its own.
Last month’s
revelation by Judicial Watch that the White House, the Pentagon and the
Central Intelligence Agency allowed filmmakers unusual access to people
involved in the planning and execution of the raid that killed Osama
bin Laden has also caused concern.
We needed a special prosecutor to investigate who leaked Valerie Plame's identity. This is much more serious.
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