This will give you an idea of how
CIA Director Porter Goss feels about intelligence leaks.
Here is what Goss had to say about the Plame investigation in October 2003 right after the investigation into the Plame leak had been made public.
"I would say there's a much larger dose of partisan politics going on right now than there is worry about national security," said Goss, R-Sanibel. "But I would never take lightly a serious allegation backed up by evidence that there was a willful -- and I emphasize willful, inadvertent is something else -- willful disclosure, and I haven't seen any evidence."
Goss said he would act if he did have evidence of that sort.
"Somebody sends me a blue dress and some DNA, I'll have an investigation," Goss said.
He was referring to the infamous blue dress in the Monica Lewinsky scandal that led to impeachment proceedings against former President Clinton.
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Goss said he has no evidence that the controversy is more than a product of "wild and unsubstantiated allegations, which are being obviously piled on by partisan politics during an election year."
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At the time Goss made these comments about the Plame investigation he had been the Republican chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence for seven years.
No house investigation
Goss basically did this interview to say that his Committee would not being holding any hearings on the Plame matter.
Rep. Porter Goss said Thursday that the uproar over allegations that White House officials purposely identified a covert CIA agent appears largely political and doesn't yet merit an investigation by the House Select Committee on Intelligence, which he chairs.
These quotes are from an October 3, 2003 interview Goss did with his hometown paper, the Herald-Tribune of southwestern Florida.
If anyone has a better link please include it in the comments, I can't get past a pay wall. This article was quoted in the Aug. 10, 2004 edition of Slate and my link to the entire article is from a blogger who posted the whole thing.