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The top lawmakers on the House and Senate intelligence panels vowed Sunday to keep vigilant watch over the Obama administration's investigation into a slew of potentially damaging national security leaks.

Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday appointed two U.S. attorneys to investigate and criminally prosecute “possible unauthorized disclosures of classified information” regarding U.S. cyberattacks against Iran, a “kill list” of terror suspects and the infiltration of al Qaeda in Yemen. 

Some Republicans have called for an independent counsel instead of relying on political appointees.

“We're going to have to see what their reporting structure is,” House Intelligence committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) told CBS's Face the Nation. “My question to the attorney general is: Good start, maybe, but we need to find out if they'll have that independence. And this needs to be fair; it shouldn't be a partisan thing.”

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