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Sen. Bond: N.Y. Times CIA Story Spotlights Need for Leak Law

The New York Times' disclosure that the brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai allegedly is a CIA asset pinpoints the need for new legislation to make it easier to prosecute government employees who leak classified information, Sen. Kit Bond tells Newsmax. Without confirming the Times' story, the Missouri Republican and vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence said he has discussed the possible need for new legislation with congressional leaders during the past week. Bond said he also has raised the issue previously: with Eric Holder when he was nominated as attorney general, with CIA Director Leon Panetta, and with their predecessors. 'Everybody said yeah, we're going to prosecute somebody,' Bond told Newsmax. 'Until you see somebody in an orange jumpsuit, people are going to regard it as a great sport for which there's no penalty.' In years past, newspapers would reveal such secrets only
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