Friday, October 20, 2006

House Intel Chair Suspends Staff Member

Should be prosecuted under the Espionage Act and put in prison but not untill the person who coercerd him to do it gets the same.

WASHINGTON -- 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.

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