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Yes the Limbacher article is confusing....... The FBI is asking for data on the following group unless this article is in err.....

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 — The FBI has intensified its probe of a classified intelligence leak, asking 17 senators to turn over phone records, appointment calendars and schedules that would reveal their possible contact with reporters.

IN AN AUG. 7 MEMO passed to the senators through the Senate general counsel’s office, the FBI asked all members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to collect and turn over records from June 18 and 19, 2002. Those dates are the day of and the day after a classified hearing in which the director of the National Security Agency, Lt. Gen. Michael V. Hayden, spoke to lawmakers about two highly sensitive messages that hinted at an impending action that the agency intercepted on the eve of Sept. 11 but did not translate until Sept. 12.
The request suggests that the FBI is now focusing on the handful of senior senators who are members of a Senate-House panel investigating Sept. 11 and attend most classified meetings and read all the most sensitive intelligence agency communications. A similar request did not go to House intelligence committee members.

It's very likely that one of the Democraps on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence gave Leaky info they had learned and he in turn spilled the beans to the press.

The request suggests that the FBI is now focusing on the handful of senior senators who are members of a Senate-House panel investigating Sept. 11 and attend most classified meetings and read all the most sensitive intelligence agency communications. A similar request did not go to House intelligence committee members.

The fact that the FBI has not requested the information from the House members is telling. I believe that it was Bill Krystol who said the other day that he believes that the FBI knows just which senator leaked the NSA information but are "casting a broad net" as a ploy.

If so, what are the odds? Republican or DemocRAT?

The request suggests that the FBI is now focusing on the handful of senior senators who are members of a Senate-House panel investigating Sept. 11 and attend most classified meetings and read all the most sensitive intelligence agency communications.

Looks like the Washington Compost even got it a bit wrong. The 17 senators being investigated aren't necessarily "senior senators" - either in age or seniority. They just happen to be ALL of the 17 senators on the senate Committee on Intelligence. Senators Edwards and Thompson are among them and they are both in their first term.