GOP Leaders Accused Of Leaking State Secrets...

[bridgit]

Are GOP Leaders Leaking State Secrets?

'For the second time in as many weeks, a senior House Republican may have divulged classified information in the media.

In an opinion article published in the New York Post Thursday, Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., reported the top-secret budget for human spying had decreased -- the type of detail normally kept under wraps for national security reasons.

"The 2008 Intelligence Authorization bill cut human-intelligence programs," Hoekstra wrote in the piece, in which he also criticized "leaks to the news media."

Formerly the chairman of the intelligence committee, Hoekstra is now its highest ranking Republican. In its recent budget authorizations, that committee kept from public view all figures and most discussion of spending on such classified items as human spying. Hoekstra's apparent slip was first noted on the liberal Web site, Raw Story.'

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/08/are-gop-leaders.html

[Eugene]

1. It's national security only when the Repubs say so

and definitely not when they leak it, apparently.

K & R

[bridgit]

2. everyone must see by now the pernicious, two-faced republican game in play...

the next few election cycles will be for the dems to lose themselves

[spanone]

3. if it's to forward the republican agenda, then it's ok.

[tbyg52]

4. That sums up the whole sorry mess

Rules are for other people.