"We really have got to make sure it never does happen again," Lieberman said of the scandal.

Democrats and libertarian-leaning Republicans are pushing to strip provisions allowing the military to hold terror suspects captured in the U.S.

“We do know that the CIA was trying to stop the story," said the House Intelligence chairman who is ordering an investigation.

“The leak really did endanger sources and methods,” she said on Fox News Sunday. 

House Armed Services Committee chairman Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) wasted no time in responding to a scathing critique by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta of his panel's version of the fiscal 2013 defense budget. 

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is leading a bipartisan delegation of five women to Qatar to discuss global security issues and celebrate Mother's Day with U.S. troops, her office announced Friday.

The delegation met Friday with Foreign Affairs Minister Khalid al-Attiya and discussed “U.S-Qatar relations and security issues in the Middle East, Asia and Africa,” Pelosi's office said in a statement. Qatar is home to the Al Uleid Air Base and other facilities that serve as hubs for U.S. Central Command and has offered to host an office for the Taliban to hold reconciliation talks with the Afghan government.

Traveling with Pelosi are Reps. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio), Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Terri Sewell (D-Ala.). 

The full text of the statement is below:

A pilot Pentagon program to help defense industry firms protect their networks from being hacked by foreign adversaries is the newest part of the Defense Department's evolving cyberwarfare strategy. 

The administration has been reluctant to label the Haqqani Network terrorists as it pursues negotiations with insurgents in Afghanistan.

There have been more than a dozen instances of Afghan commanders refusing to act on U.S. intelligence to go after high-value targets in night raids, The Washington Post reported.

U.S. forces shifted control of night-raid operations to the Afghans as one part of the deal that led to the strategic partnership agreement announced by President Obama this month.

Night raids, which have been used to pinpoint enemy targets, have been unpopular among civilians in Afghanistan due to civilian casualties, something U.S. officials have argued does not occur in most raids.