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Friday, May 12, 2006

Sen. Kyl: "This [Leak] is Nuts"

While Democratic Senators are having a field day with our leaked national security programs, particularly Sen. Leahy (who is no stranger to leaking classified information), there are still a few Senators who have some common sense. From today's NY Sun:

"This is nuts," Senator Kyl, a Republican of Arizona, said. "We're in a war and we got to collect intelligence on the enemy, and you can't tell the enemy in advance how you're going to do it, and discussing all of this stuff in public leads to that."

And of course, Sen. Roberts (R-KS), Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, stressed that the eight designated members of Congress have been fully briefed on all the workings of the NSA programs. The briefings, of course, were classified, which makes me wonder how we haven't already heard about them.