Republicans Seeking Investigation Into Covert Prisons Leak?
By Rob on Domestic Issues
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American Spectator - Word out of the Senate is that some Republicans are looking to Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman, Sen. Pat Roberts, to open a full investigation into the leak by CIA staffers of so-called “black sites” overseas. These facilities house captured al Qaeda and other terrorists, and are maintained by the CIA.
The Washington Post reported on the sites, using information gathered from sources inside the CIA, both the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, and the group, Human Rights Watch, which, according to an HRW source, has been getting inside information from Democratic staff on both House and Senate Committees.
Although Post withheld the locations of specific “black sites,” the London Times quickly followed up. Citing the human rights group as a source, it identified not only the nations where they might be located — both of which are staunch allies in America’s War on Terrorism — but also the flight plans used by the CIA to transport the prisoners.
“This leak not only put CIA operatives at risk by identifying the locations, including ones that are supposedly no longer being used, it put our national security at risk here at home and put civilian lives in the countries that are helping us at risk. Weigh this leak against the one Democrats are all hopped up about and there is no comparison,” says a Republican staffer for a Senator considering making a formal request for the investigation.
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Last week, when this story broke, I called for an investigation into the leak. I’m glad to see that the idea is getting some attention in Washington.
If the leak of the identity of a CIA desk jockey who joined with her husband in a partisan escapade aimed at producing the background for a smear campaign against the President is worthy of two years worth of investigation, countless pages and hours of media scrutiny and tens of millions of America tax dollars than certainly the situation described above is worthy of the same.
Will the situation get it? One would hope so, as the leak was a serious one. Exponentially more serious than the Plame leak. But while the leak may well get an investigation, I doubt it would ever get the type of media coverage the Plame leak got for one simple reason: Investigating this leak doesn’t reflect badly on the President.
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