>Congressmen on select committees have clearance, but cannot tell you what they know. This isn't exactly true. Congressmen have an explicit Constitutional prot

>Congressmen on select committees have clearance, but cannot tell you what they know. This isn't exactly true. Congressmen have an explicit Constitutional protection for anything they say in the House. This was most famauslly used by Senator Mike Gravel to leak the Pentagon Papers, and set the precedent of Gravel v. United States that doing so is legal. In reality, attempting to do so would cost significant political capitol, and will likely make it difficult for the Congressmen to get onto such committees in the future.