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house would purposely release classified national security information is offensive. >> calls grew louder for an inpen did he knows investigation which congress has now ordered. on this saturday eric holder appointing two u.s. attorneys to handle it. some law americas claim they have evidence that some of the leaks intelligence is coming from senior government officials. molly henneberg is live in washington. ninnedcation these leak -- indication these leaks were politically motivated? >> mccain thinks so. he quoted sources as administrative officials and aids to the president. presi...

information is offensive. >> reporter: but one top senate republican suggests the president should look in-house. he talked about the articles that appeared there, and journalists identify some of the sources for their articles as administration officials. aides to the president, members of the president's national security team. mccain wants the president to appoint a special independent council to investigate the leaks. >> heather: thank you very much. molly henneberg reporting live. how significant are these leaks. >> a retired four-star general speaking out today saying the leaks...

leon pen net tpineda after cand comments he made about terrorists in that country. how this is making our tense relations even tougher. and how much would you pay to take the second richest man in america out to lunch? that's right. you have to pay. he is not picking up the tab. >> first tonight two top u.s. attorneys trying to figure out who may have leaked some big national security secrets. intelligence on everything from recent cyber attacks fragainst iran to the president's so-called kill list a terror suspect. there is criticism over how this happened including republican senat...

having anything to do with the leaks and vowed to crackdown on the release of classified information. molly henneberg has the latest information. >> molly: attorney general eric holder tapped a u.s. attorneys to lead separate investigations into several recent leaks. one of the probes have been started by the f.b.i. helder said in statement, i have confidence in their abilities to doggedly follow the facts. but the chairman of house intelligence committee has concerns that these attorneys who will report to holder will be available to investigate freely. he said, quote, i look forwar...

skills don't translate to any sort of certification in the civilian world. and that is totally insane and unacceptable. we fought very hard last year. we worked with the house and senate to pass a bill that is going to be able to quantify that. probably not in the next year but maybe in the year after next we'll actually be able to figure out what standard medic training, what special forces medic training actually means in the civilian. whether that's equivalent to an pa, to an emt, i just don't know. the problem is we've never done that math. we're going to start doing that math no...