Santorum wants severe punishments doled out to those who leak information to other countries/organizations, and he's willing to throw the "traitorous, liberal media" into the mix for doing their jobs by reporting the news.
Loose lips sink ships, right?
"We are not going to defeat Islamic fascism by garrisoning America or our allies, but by having effective intelligence," Santorum, the No. 3 Senate Republican, said during a teleconference.
"I think it is vitally important for us to understand that the compromises that have been made of American intelligence over the last few months were serious and that the traitors within the intelligence community who leaked that information, for whatever purposes, must be pursued aggressively," Santorum said.
The programs that were the subject of leaks "were important for us to be able to confront an enemy in time of war," Santorum said. "When people leak that kind of information, to me, that is traitorous activity."
News organizations, he said, should take a "much more responsible approach" in dealing with such leaks.
"If leaking this information is traitorous, then publishing it is also complicit with that activity," Santorum said.
Santorum acknowledged that he did not know whether techniques such as the warrantless surveillance program were involved in heading off the alleged terrorist plan to smuggle explosive components onto passenger airliners.
"What is important is we have all the tools necessary within the intelligence community to foil these plots before they're actuated," Santorum said.
Critics, he said, give the administration no credit for the fact that the country has not suffered a second terrorist attack in the nearly five years since Sept. 11, 2001.
"We must be doing something right," Santorum said. "It's not like these people don't want to attack us."
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