H/T to Allah for this story of House Intelligence Chairman Peter Hoekstra.
House Intelligence Chairman Peter Hoekstra has suspended a Democratic staff member because of concerns he may have leaked a high-level intelligence assessment to The New York Times last month.
In a letter obtained by The Associated Press Thursday night, Rep. Ray LaHood, R-Ill., a committee member, said that an unidentified staffer requested the document from National Intelligence Director John Negroponte three days before the Sept. 23 story about its conclusions.
The staffer received the National Intelligence Estimate on global terror trends on Sept. 21.
“I have no credible information to say any classified information was leaked from the committee’s minority staff, but the implications of such would be dramatic,” LaHood wrote Hoekstra, R-Mich., late last month. “This may, in fact, be only coincidence, and simply ‘look bad.’ But coincidence, in this town, is rare.”
A spokesman to Hoekstra, Jamal Ware, confirmed that a committee staff member was suspended this week. He said the staff member is being denied access to classified information pending the outcome of a review.
“Chairman Hoekstra considers security highly important, and the coincidence certainly merits a review,” he said.
An aide to California Rep. Jane Harman, the committee’s top Democrat, did not have an immediate comment Thursday night.
The New York Times did not immediately answer a telephone message seeking comment
This is a very good start!
Who says Democrats aren’t socialists or communists? To them, achieving power at any cost, the ends justify the means, including causing the loss of a war.
PCD you got that right.
The Demo’s are so morally bankrupt, that if they thought it would bring Bush and the Republican’s down, they would look the other way if Islamic terrorist snuck a nuclear device into this country, with intentions of destroying a US city. They don’t care one iota about security of the US, get Bush is thier first cry. The New York times, and the Washington Post, would be waiting in the wings to lablast Bush and the Republican’s and blame it all on them.
Because, you kow the CoC (Culture of Corruption) on the Hill is strictly a Rpublucan problem.
You know, “vote for a change”, and all that crap…
I think it is time we vote for a change. It’s time we vote in a filibuster proof majority in the Senate and get on with getting things done instead of having to deal with the idiotic Democratic “we’re going to force a cloture vote on a bathroom break.” actions.