Rogers: Obama Admin faces prosecution over leaks

Published May 13, 2012 4:00am ET



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.”

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