Rep. Pete Hoekstra delves into an apparent CIA leak

WASHINGTON: A senior Republican lawmaker called on the top US spy chief to probe claims CIA officers collaborated with a Council of Europe investigation into secret US "war on terror" prisons.
Pete Hoekstra, the top-ranked Republican on the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, told Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell in a letter published Friday that such a finding would represent a serious security breach.

"Every intelligence official swears an oath to protect the people and national secrets of this great land," Hoekstra wrote.

"To willingly discuss the details of any classified government program with an agent of a foreign power without authorization is absolutely unconscionable. This would represent an egregious violation of the public's trust."
(The News)

Why the CIA hasn't started the ball rolling with a complaint to the Justice Department is anyone's guess at this point. We heard about how the investigation into the Plame leak was "mandatory" because secrets were divulged--but no apparent investigation took place into the leaks regarding the NSA surveillance program.

The Department of Justice shares something in common with the CIA. It is almost assuredly dominated by career employees who tilt to the left politically.

Is ideology blocking the complaint that probably should stem from this case?

It's encouraging seeing Hoekstra get involved in this. He and Senator Rick Santorum were effective in obtaining release of a large trove of captured Iraqi documents--some of which appeared to suggest some collaboration between Saddam Hussein and the Taliban/al Qaida (the material remains unverified, to my knowledge).