US lawmaker quizzes top US spy on Europe prison claim

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2007

WASHINGTON (AFP) — 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...

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