New Email Release Shows: Peter King Demanded an Investigation To Find Journalist's Sources Like Pete

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New Email Release Shows: Peter King Demanded an Investigation To Find Journalist's Sources Like Peter King
House of Representatives
by Marcy Wheeler | September 8, 2014 - 7:56am

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On May 9, 2012, Representative Peter King called for an FBI investigation to determine who leaked details of the plot to the AP.

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Within hours of the first AP report, Scott Shane, of the New York Times, emailed CIA’s press office asking them to clarify something King told the NYT, based on the briefings King had gotten about the plot. “‘They said that we don’t have to worry about him anymore, that we don’t have to worry about this guy. That was the exact language they used,’” Shane recounted King explaining, on the record. “Can you help me interpret what Rep. King is saying…?”

As King explained to Wolf Blitzer two days after this conversation with NYT journalists – even as he was calling for an investigation into the the people leaking classified information – he had been in a number of Top Secret briefings on the plot. King complained that “so many people are talking about something which is still classified.”

Representative King’s office did not return a request for comment.