House staffer suspended over leak - Politics - MSNBC.com
Amber Swift  |  by www.msnbc.msn.com. All rights reserved. 6.11 | 20:41

WASHINGTON - The Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee has suspended a Democratic staff member pending an investigation into whether he leaked a high-level intelligence assessment to the news media.
The staff member, who was not identified, was suspended this week by Chairman Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., his spokesman said Thursday evening.

The aide is being denied access to classified information pending the outcome of a review, said the spokesman, Jamal Ware.


The leak to The New York Times of a National Intelligence Estimate on global terror trends caused a political uproar last month.

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