This one really is just too good. Pissed off about Valerie Plame and trying to shift the focus away from well everything, the GOP leaders are demanding an investigation into how the CIA “black sites” story was leaked to the Washington Post.

Congress’s top Republican leaders yesterday demanded an immediate joint House and Senate investigation into the disclosure of classified information to The Washington Post that detailed a web of secret prisons being used to house and interrogate terrorism suspects.

The Post’s article, published on Nov. 2, has led to new questions about the treatment of detainees and the CIA’s use of “black sites” in Eastern Europe and elsewhere. The issue dogged President Bush on his recent trip to Latin America and has created consternation in Eastern Europe.

So now they get their panties in a bunch, but where’s the outrage about miss-used intelligence? Look, I have no problem with Congress taking on this investigation, they should things like this aren’t supposed to get leaked to the media. However, when the leak happened with Valerie Plame Republicans said the same things, but they also said it provided an opportunity to examine the motives of Joe Wilson. For most their attacks didn’t stick, but with this story, the media is now examining the motives of the government in using these prisons. It is forcing an honest and open debate about torture, and we should be having that debate especially post 9/11.