were looked at, e-mail records looked at. that's something that's worrisome. >> ruth marcus i have to say as a former senate staffer myself i am shocked by this in a way that's hard to describe because most committees in the senate, the behavior that's described here of sharing inside information with reporters, there's nothing criminal about it, absolutely nothing, but the intelligence committee is by far the most sensitive. and it's hard to think of any information you could share from the intelligence committee to reporters, where you wouldn't run into crossing a legal line. and those staffers in the senate i know all regard the intelligence committee staffers as the utmost professional examples of senate staffers, the least likely place for something like this to happen. >> it is a really extraordinary set of allegations against somebody who has been working in