Attorney General Eric Holder has appointed two prosecutors to head a probe into recent leaks of information on classified government programs. Holder announced the investigation after bipartisan anger over published reports revealing President Obama’s secret “kill list” as well as the U.S.-Israeli use of cyberweapons to target Iran’s nuclear program. The FBI had already announced a probe of the cyberweapons operation last week. In appointing the prosecutors, Holder rebuffed calls from lawmakers to appoint an independent special counsel outside of his office’s control. At a White House news conference on Friday, President Obama rejected suggestions the leaks may have come from his administration to bolster his re-election bid.

President Obama: “The notion that my White House would purposely release classified national security information is offensive. It’s wrong. And people, I think, need to have a better sense of how I approach this office and how the people around me here approach this office.”