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| Ethics Committee to Probe Harry Reid |
| Sunday, May 22, 2005 |
The Senate Ethics Committee will investigate Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid based on two separate complaints filed against the Nevada Democrat, the committee's vice chairman said this week.
On Wednesday the Center for Individual Freedom filed a complaint with the committee based on Reid's decision to reveal confidential information from the FBI file of Henry Saad - one of President Bush's judicial nominees. "All you need to do is have a member go upstairs and look at his confidential report from the FBI, and I think we would all agree there is a problem there," Reid told the Senate last week, in comments that outraged Republicans.
Asked about the CIF complaint, the Ethics Committee vice chairman, South Dakota Democrat Tim Johnson, told Human Events magazine: "Filing does automatically set off a preliminary investigation, which is usually staff-driven."
On Thursday, the American Conservative Union filed a second ethics complaint against Sen. Reid over the Saad incident.
The ACU complaint also cites "improper referencing of confidential materials by Senators Patrick Leahy and Carl Levin."
It's not clear whether the reference to Leahy and Levin will spur additional probes by the Ethics Committee.
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