House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., rebuked Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., for suggesting that intelligence leaks within the Obama administration are politically-motivated.
“With all due respect to Sen. McCain, for anybody to say that a leak — and I don’t care [which] party, one way or another — that an intelligence leak is political motivated is really a sad statement,” Pelosi said during her press briefing today.
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“[W]hat is grossly irresponsible is U.S. officials divulging some of the most highly classified programs involving the most important national security priorities facing our nation today,” McCain said of the leaks.
Pelosi turned the issue around on Republicans. “If there is an accidental leak — and by the way, we had an investigation which found that Republican senators were the source of the leaks many years ago; probably accidentally, unwittingly, but nonetheless they were the source,” she said. “So, to say that an intelligence leak which undermines the national security of our country is something that politically-motivated — well, I just can’t agree with that.”
