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Senator Pat Leahy was annoyed with the Reagan administration's war on terrorism in the 1980s. At the time he was vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. He's got the name "Leaky Leahy,".

Allegedly he threatened to sabotage various classified strategies that he didn't like and he inadvertently' disclosed a top-secret communications intercept during a 1985 television interview. He said that "The intercept ... made possible the capture of the Arab terrorists who had hijacked the cruise ship Achille Lauro and murdered American citizens." The reports cost the life of at least one Egyptian operative involved in the operation and gave information to Egypt that we had penetrated the high levels of Egyptian government.

In July 1987, it was reported that Leahy leaked secret information about a 1986 covert operation planned by the Reagan administration to topple Libya's Gaddhafi. U.S. intelligence officials said he, along with the Republican panel chairman, sent a written threat to expose the operation directly to then-CIA Director William Casey. Weeks later, news of the secret plan turned up in the Washington Post, causing it to be aborted.

A year later, as the Senate was preparing to hold hearings on the Iran-Contra scandal, Leahy had to resign his Intelligence Committee post after he was caught leaking secret information to a reporter.

Leahy should have been indicted, tried and sentenced. (Firing squad at dawn on the Mall.) What did he get ... a raise. Who really believes that 'a Rockefeller' would face any higher authority, like a court. Many elected ongessmen and Senators have done this from both parties.

The law is not in place to make a Member of Congress subject to the laws of the land. Others can be, the military for sure as well as members of the Executive Branch can be held accountable. They can go to jail or pay a fine (like Sandy Burger losing his clearance for 5 years).