Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the United States is in a "different kind of war" and has an obligation to defend itself - ie f*ck the constitution and bill of rights when it prevents george w hitler from doing something Original Article CIA to probe prison leak It wants to know how 'Post' obtained secret Associated Press Nov. 9, 2005 12:00 AM WASHINGTON - The CIA took the first step toward a criminal investigation of a leak of possibly classified information on secret prisons to the Washington Post, a U.S. official said Tuesday. The agency's general counsel sent a report to the Justice Department about the Post story, which reported the existence of secret U.S. detention centers for terror suspects in Eastern Europe. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the issue deals with classified information, said the referral was made shortly after the story was published Nov. 2. The Justice Department will decide whether to initiate a criminal investigation. On Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and House Speaker Dennis Hastert called for a congressional investigation into the disclosure of the existence of the secret prisons. Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, said Republicans "should be focused on the illegality of these prisons, not the revelation of the illegality." Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sidestepped questions on secret prisons, saying the United States is in a "different kind of war" and has an obligation to defend itself. The newspaper's story of a week ago said the CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al-Qaida captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, part of a covert prison system set up by the agency four years ago. At various times, the system has included sites in eight countries.