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Bush admin. won't say if Boehner will be investigated for leaking classified info.

Today's NY Times intimates that Representative John Boehner, the Republican Minority Leader, gave information about a classified ruling to FOX News.  CREW wants an investigation of Boehner to determine if he did, in fact, violate the law by releasing that classified nformation:

The calls for legislation were made more urgent last week by the disclosure that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the secret tribunal whose warrants are ordinarily required for the government to eavesdrop domestically in a national security case, issued a classified ruling some months ago saying interception of foreign-to-foreign communication passing through American soil could require such a warrant. Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, the House Republican leader, alluded to the ruling last week on Fox News in arguing for swift passage of the surveillance legislation as a way of fixing that intelligence gap.

A private watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, called on the Justice Department on Monday to investigate whether Mr. Boehner improperly disclosed classified material during his television appearance. But administration officials declined to say whether they would pursue an investigation.

 

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