Peter King wants the name of journalist, lawyers who got CIA data

Politico:
House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King (R-N.Y.) is urging the Justice Department to name the journalists who allegedly received leaks from ex-CIA officer John Kiriakou and to identify the lawyers who used leaked information to give terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay photographs of their interrogators.
Kiriakou was charged in federal court Monday with disclosing the identitiy of a covert operative and with revealing classified information to people unauthorized to receive it. The criminal complaint filed by prosecutors and the Federal Bureau of Investigation did not name the journalists or lawyers, although the complaint makes clear that one leak was to Scott Shane of the New York Times.
"While the DOJ complaint argues that no crimes were committed by [those other than Kiriakou], I call upon the Justice Department to identify the journalists and lawyers who were involved in this grave breach of wartime national security.  Beyond criminal legal liability, there is the question of moral culpability for these journalists and lawyers," King said in a statement Monday night.
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They facilitated the crime and we deserve to know who they are.   They did not have a problem disclosing this information in a much less serious breach under the bush administration.

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