{"id":247,"date":"2009-11-12T02:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=247"},"modified":"2009-11-12T02:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T10:51:00","slug":"gop-sweetheart-%e2%80%93-11122009-%e2%80%93-pete-hoekstra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/12\/gop-sweetheart-%e2%80%93-11122009-%e2%80%93-pete-hoekstra\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Sweetheart \u2013 11\/12\/2009 \u2013 Pete Hoekstra"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today\u2019s GOP Sweetheart is the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee.  He loves to compromise our nation\u2019s classified material for political gain.<\/p>\n

\"GOPHypocrites\"<\/a> Last night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow accused Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee and current gubernatorial candidate, of leaking sensitive intelligence information to the press. Hoekstra told the Washington Post this week that Maj. Nidal M. Hasan had<\/font> e-mail conversations<\/a> with a<\/font> radical<\/a> Yemeni cleric, Anwar al-Aulaqi. Maddow excoriated Hoekstra for letting Aulaqi know that his e-mail is<\/font> being monitored<\/a>:<\/p>\n

MADDOW: Why is it Pete Hoekstra who\u2019s taking it upon himself to tell the press that this radical cleric is having his email read by U.S. intelligence agencies? The FBI had not said publicly that this cleric had been emailing Hasan. The CIA, the NSA, the White House \u2014 nobody else had reported this cleric was e-mailing Hasan. This is just Pete Hoekstra letting us know \u2014 and letting the radical cleric who is under surveillance know \u2014 that he\u2019s under surveillance\u2026<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

This is not a lone incident.  Hoekstra has a long history of compromising US intelligence for political advantage.  Here is Rachel\u2019s coverage on this GOP pig.<\/p>\n