[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 12913]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        STOP INTELLIGENCE LEAKS

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. The New York Times, you know, the actions of that 
storied paper certainly are the subject of much discussion. Mr. 
Speaker, it is a sad discussion, because it is a discussion about those 
who chose to leak information and those who chose to print that leaked 
information that is harmful to this great Nation's security.
  It is unfortunate, and it does add to the level of distrust of 
bureaucracy and of government. It is sad. It is disappointing.
  The perpetrators of those actions, Mr. Speaker, can rationalize all 
they want. But the point is this: Those actions, leaking that 
information, printing that information, make our intelligence 
community's job a little harder.
  They make defunding terrorists and their activities more difficult, 
and they make our American communities less safe and less secure. It is 
a sad action, and it is an action with unfortunate consequences.

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