Rep. Rogers: DOJ leak inquiry a "good start, maybe"

(CBS News) On "Face the Nation," the Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Mike Rogers, R-Mich., said the Department of Justice's appointment of two U.S. attorneys to look into national security leaks is a "good start, maybe."

Rogers said he will be watching the process and the outcome of the investigation to determine if an investigator independent of the Obama administration should be appointed.

"We need to find out if they will have that independence," Rogers said. "Can you have a U.S. Attorney assigned... through the Attorney General, investigate something that is clearly going to be most senior levels of all of the security, the DoD, Attorney General's office and even the president?"

His counterpart on the Senate Intelligence Committee, California Democrat Dianne Feinstein, said, "Hopefully it's enough to get to a relatively quick disposition."

Members of Congress expressed concern last week about national security leaks after an article in The New York Times detailed an American and Israeli cyber-attack against Iran. Republican Senator John McCain openly questioned the White House's involvement, suggesting that the leaks were for President Obama's political gain.

Feinstein told host Bob Schieffer that the investigators "have an opportunity to do the investigation quickly, and if there were unauthorized leaks, to get to the bottom of it."

Rogers said he wants to "get to the bottom of this" because "we know that sources' lives are in danger and operations importantly going forward are in danger. That is a serious blow to national security."

Feinstein agreed on the importance of the investigation. "We know that there are groups that if they can will attack us. And therefore, the intelligence is related to the nation's security, and I think that's an important point," she said.

In response to a question by Schieffer on whether the White House itself leaked information to "make the president look good," Feinstein said, "I have no idea. No, I do not believe that."

[Puma6]

Pardon me if I don't get all excited about appointing two in-house prosecutors to investigate who leaked the information. If and when anything comes out of this (which I doubt) the election will probably be two years previous. This will be another goat rope where simply going through the motions will postpone release of any info and when everyone has forgotten about it, they will quietly shut it down and disappear. Yippee.

[Puma6]

Pardon me if I don't get all excited about appointing two in-house prosecutors to investigate who leaked the information. If and when anything comes out of this (which I doubt) the election will probably be two years previous. This will be another goat rope where simply going through the motions will postpone release of any info and when everyone has forgotten about it, they will quietly shut it down and disappear. Yippee.

[SilverBirds-RevSlappy]

Maybe isn't even close.
They are going to have to get a special prosecutor because this investigation by Fast and furious stonewaller Eric Holder will be nothing more than a sham.
The abuse of Obama's power rivals that of Richard Nixon.

[fiddlestickawshucks]

The DOJ inquiry may also NOT be a "good start".!

It's been God-only-knows how many years and how much money they have wasted attempting to convict Roger Clemens of lying to Congress.

You would think they would have better things to do like prosecuting those responsible for the economic collapse.

What Clemens did really did not have that much of an effect on a huge number of people.

Those responsible for the economic collapse were not made to face the consequences of their actions; actions that not only affected the lives of huge numbers of people; but GENERATIONS to come.

There is absolutely nothing stopping them from doing it again.

They knew what they were doing was wrong, but they went ahead and did it anyway.

I can't think of another country where the President rewarded so many thieves with so much money.

Where has the DOJ been all this time.??