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The quietest Senate investigation ever
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Last Edited | ArmyDem Jul 29, 2005 01:10pm |
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News Date | Friday, July 29, 2005 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | Posted 1:53 pm | Printer Friendly
Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) got into a little trouble last August when he divulged classified intercepted messages to the media while serving on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Specifically, Fox News' Carl Cameron confirmed to FBI investigators that Shelby verbally divulged information to him during a June 2002 interview, literally minutes after Shelby's committee had been given the information in a classified briefing.
Shelby was chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee for over five years. He, of all people, knows all about legal restrictions on passing classified information over to the media, leaving him no excuse for this kind of recklessness. Hell, it didn't even meet Fox's standards — Cameron did not air the information Shelby gave him. What's more, the leak even led to a low-key federal criminal investigation of Shelby.
And when I say "low-key," I mean practically invisible. We're talking about a sitting senator becoming the subject of two investigations, one of them criminal, and no one has talked about it. Someday, someone is going to have to explain to me how Republicans are able get away with so much. (Imagine, just for a moment, if a Dem senator was under a similar investigation. Do you suppose we might hear about it on Fox News?)
Nevertheless, the investigation into Shelby's conduct will wrap up in a couple of months. Care to guess why it's taking so long? |
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