Intelligence Panel Chief Moves to Prevent Leaks

The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee clamped new security restrictions on senators and staff members Monday to prevent further leaks of sensitive information from the panel’s files.

The action, by Sen. David L. Boren (D-Okla.), the committee’s new chairman, is intended to prevent the release of committee documents to the news media and others.

Boren and Sen. William S. Cohen (R-Me.), the panel’s new ranking GOP member, repeated in statements on the Senate floor that a document obtained late last week by NBC News apparently was a preliminary draft report on the findings of the panel’s inquiry into the secret sale of U.S. weapons to Iran.

Boren said he directed that no committee documents be made available to senators and staff members except inside the committee’s security-enhanced meeting room.