Well, it looks like the investigation into who leaked the NSA surveillance program against Al Qaeda members overseas (and as a by product, who they talk to here in the US) has added a new member. Mac Ranger picked up on Sen Jay Rockefeller when his name appeared in the original NY Times story last December. I felt the FISA Judge who resigned in protest, without uttering any protest, was also part of the leaking. Recently Sen Dick Durbin’s name had been added to the list. Why is anyone surprised that another Democrat’s name has been linked to the leak?

In a February 17th letter to Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte, Rockefeller wrote, “Given the administration’s continuing abuse of intelligence information for political purposes, its criticism of leaks is extraordinarily hypocritical.” This is a reference to the speech the president gave, in which he detailed a 2002 al-Qaeda hijacking plot against the Library Tower in Los Angeles. “The president and other senior members must set an example for others to follow,” the letter continued.

How convenient, that he should lay all disclosures of classified information at the president’s feet. That must mean that Rockefeller, along with fellow Democrat senators Dick Durbin and Ron Wyden, were not responsible for leaking details of a secret CIA satellite program to the Washington Post, which they did in 2004. They outed the program in an effort to kill it, supposedly because it was too expensive. Leave it to a group of Democrat senators to wait until our national security is at stake to have a sudden attack of frugality.

Now I have no clue as to the veracity of this man’s sources, except that the story sounds plausible and links up with other rumors flying around behind the scenes. But what is interesting is where some of the push to investigate is coming from. Initially it was assumed the Dept of Justice was the initiator (see here, where another former Democrat Senator, Bob Graham, is named as well) but this article is claiming the CIA is the force behind this investigation:

The CIA has prodded the Justice Department to investigate the senators, which must be one of the things that Rockefeller finds hypocritical.

Read the entire piece – it is damning strike against Rockefellers loose-lips-logic.