By: E&P Staff The Justice Dept. continues to investigate possible criminal charges in the leaking of secret information to The New York Times concerning the domestic spying program.
This emerged late this morning in the contentious questioning of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on the spy program before the U.S. Senate's Judiciary committee.
The information emerged in questioning from Republican Senator Charles Grassley, who was outraged that the issue had retreated from public view lately.
"The department has initiated an investigation into the possible crimes there," Gonzales replied. "Consistent with our practice I'm not going to talk about ongoing investigation," he added. "But we will look at evidence and if the evidence shows that a crime has been committed we will move forward with prosecution."
Grassley then responded, "We do not hear as much public outcry as we did with the Valerie Plame case." He added that the leaking of a covert CIA operative's name "was a two-bit nothing compared with this issue -- with this information [on the spy program] being leaked to the press."
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