of this members of the national security team with him in meetings in the situation room. question for you, senator lieberman, do you have any thoughts about who was leaking the stories and why? i don t have any thoughts about who was leaking the stories but we ought to try to find out and that is what the investigation and the justice department ought to do. there is nothing new here about leaks in washington. this happened during the clinton, bush and earlier obama administration and bob woodru f woodruff s books for instance. the recent series of leaks are the worse in the a long time. people think there is no accountability if you leak. and we have to change that. i think we to change the law that is applied here. the last person to be convicted of a crime for leaking to the media was more than 25 years ago. we are are still using a 1917 espionage act that requires some showing of intent, a knowledge that it leak would
the articles but specifically with the quotes about the details it says members of the national security team. well, listen, i see the capitol behind you right now. part of what is going on here are the republicans in congress are pretty clear at the beginning of the year what did they say one of the core strategic priorityies was? was to engage in investigations to damage this president politically. republicans in congress talked openly about this. you have a situation where an investigation has been announ e announced by two united states tears including an appointee of president bush. we will let the investigation proceed rather than turning into into a game of distraction because what we really need to focus on here is continue to fight against al-qaeda and continue the progress we made and turn our attention as for e forcefully as we can to the economy and creating jobs. what you are seeing in wall there was an amazing article the other day i believe it it was in the wall stree
of this members of the national security team with him in meetings in the situation room. question for you, senator lieberman, do you have any thoughts about who was leaking the stories and why? i don t have any thoughts about who was leaking the stories but we ought to try to find out and that is what the investigation and the justice department ought to do. there is nothing new here about leaks in washington. this happened during the clinton, bush and earlier obama administration and bob woodru f woodruff s books for instance. the recent series of leaks are the worse in the a long time. people think there is no accountability if you leak. and we have to change that. i think we to change the law that is applied here. the last person to be convicted of a crime for leaking to the media was more than 25 years ago. we are are still using a 1917 espionage act that requires some showing of intent, a knowledge that it leak would
the articles but specifically with the quotes about the details it says members of the national security team. well, listen, i see the capitol behind you right now. part of what is going on here are the republicans in congress are pretty clear at the beginning of the year what did they say one of the core strategic priorityies was? was to engage in investigations to damage this president politically. republicans in congress talked openly about this. you have a situation where an investigation has been announ e announced by two united states tears including an appointee of president bush. we will let the investigation proceed rather than turning into into a game of distraction because what we really need to focus on here is continue to fight against al-qaeda and continue the progress we made and turn our attention as for e forcefully as we can to the economy and creating jobs. what you are seeing in wall there was an amazing article the other day i believe it it was in the wall stree