The chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is investigating whether comments made by presidential candidate Ted Cruz during Tuesday night's debate contained classified information.<br /><br />"The question had been raised, therefore I asked my staff to look at it and see if there was any validity to it. Anytime you deal with numbers, and I think it dealt with numbers, the question is, is that classified or not?" U.S. Senator Richard Burr told reporters on Wednesday, as quoted by Politico.<br /><br />Burr's comments followed a tweet from Burr's spokeswoman, Becca Watkins, who tweeted during Tuesday night's Republican debate that "Cruz shouldn't have said that."<br /><br />The controversy centers on a comment made by Cruz during an exchange with Senator Marco Rubio about the National Security Agency's surveillance programs. "[Rubio knows] that the old program covered 20 percent to 30 percent of phone numbers to search for terrorists. The new program covers nearly 100 percent," he said.
