Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., faulted the Obama administration for “chest-thumping” about using a double-agent to foil a terrorist plot, and he said that whoever leaked the information faces criminal charges.
“I think there was a little premature chest-thumping in this whole thing and I’ve ordered a preliminary review,” Rogers, the House Intelligence Committee chairman, said on CBS’s Face the Nation.”We will make a determination either a full-blown committee investigation or we’ll refer it to criminal charges to the FBI.”
Rogers indicated that someone in the Obama administration leaked details about a sensitive counterterrorism operation — against the wishes of the CIA — in order to help President Obama’s reelection effort.
“This is not anything that should be used for a headline,” he told CBS’s Bob Schieffer. “Our national security should be exempt from any November at any time in any year.”
