Ashcroft creates interagency force on security leaks

Washington Times ^ | 12/16/01 | Jerry Seper

[Clara Lou]

Attorney General John Ashcroft has created an interagency task force to review current administrative and legal sanctions governing the leak of classified information.

The review, the first in nearly two decades, will look at current tools to stop leaks and will make recommendations for modifications to administrative policies and regulations, and formulate new statutory remedies, if necessary.

[Clara Lou]

Good idea! Someone needs to share it with those guys in Britain.

[pray4liberty]

Some members of Congress have suggested legislation be drafted to make the release of classified information a felony. The proposed legislation, however, has been rejected by some Republicans and Democrats, as well as many in the news media, civil liberties organizations, unions and historians.

Isn't this already a felony? Our guys have no excuse, either.