Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert fired off a letter to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees demanding an investigation into the "leak" of classified information regarding the CIA's holding of prisoners in secret prisons overseas.

Frist and Hastert made a big show and whined that this leak could damage national security. What they apparently didn't expect was Republican Senator Trent Lott to call them on their bluff: the leak came from within the Republican Party (thanks to DailyKos for this). From the Kos:

Lott just said, Tuesday afternoon, that he thinks it was a GOP Senator who leaked the info to the Washington Post last week. He says the details had been discussed at a GOP Senators-only meeting last week, and that many of those details made it into the WaPo story.

Money quote from Lott; "We can not remain silent. We have met the enemy, and it is us."

All just reported on CNN. We are, folks, witnessing the full-on implosion of the national Republican Party. And not a second too soon.