Frist and Hastert Call for Leak Probe

Republicans like to claim they are the party which is distrustful of big government, yet they consistently side with big government against those who exose its excesses. Frist and Hastert have now called for “a congressional leak investigation into who told the news media about previously undisclosed U.S. interrogation centers abroad.”

Neither has expressed any interest into investigating the leak of a covert CIA agent’s identity or the White House policy of retaliating against critics. It took Democrats shutting down the Senate to make any movement towards investigating the government lies which got us into the mess in Iraq in the first place.