If he did do the leaking-put him behind bars(and I'm a conservative). I'm sick of this crap.
If I remember correctly, the Justice Dept. has already declined to indite Shelby. The worst he could probably get is censure from the Senate and losing seniority rights.
At issue are two messages intercepted by the National Security Agency on the eve of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Those messages contained the words "the match begins tomorrow" and "tomorrow is zero day" but they were not translated from Arabic until Sept. 12.
The Justice Department has investigated whether Shelby leaked the classified information to news organizations in 2002.
Last month, the department referred the matter to the ethics committee, signaling criminal charges are unlikely. Shelby, the former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who was vice chairman at the time of the leak, has said he has never "knowingly compromised classified information."
If this story was "leaked" to the media, the media didn't do a very good job of reporting it! (at least, I never heard/read any of that "zero day" language reported...)
And Shelby was the "vice-chairman" at the time...does that translate "minority"? Who else is on that committee? Not Leahy, by any chance?
I just don't see anything of significance with this, other than an attempt to ruin Shelby's career and credibility. If I'm wrong about that, he should certainly receive his just desserts, but if this is just another "official Senate ethics investigation" instigated by the Democrat half of a 3 + 3 committee, people of integrity should stand by him. Is that too much to ask of either side?
(on second thought...don't answer that last question...LOL! I'm averse to "Senator" types just on general principle... < sigh > !)