Leaky ship of Congress must be plugged

When the former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee,Sen. David Durenberger (R-Minn.), has to be questioned by the SenateEthics Committee for publicly revealing the secret Americanrecruitment of a foreign official, it is time for the U.S. Congressto recognize that its committee structure for overseeing sensitiveintelligence operations is leaking badly at the top.

When the former vice chairman of the Senate IntelligenceCommittee, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), is forced to resign because ofhis unauthorized disclosure to the press of a committee document, itis time for a bipartisan majority to consider seriously the oneinstitutional change in congressional …