In the wake of alleged thefts of classified documents from the State Department, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has launched a comprehensive investigation of the agency's security and counterintelligence programs, Committee Chairman Porter Goss (R-RL) announced yesterday. "The current security breakdown within State is both egregious and unacceptable," Goss said in an April 18 statement. "If the Department of State cannot safeguard our nation's most important secrets, then its senior officers should not be granted access without the...
