(CNSNews.com) - The leak of classified documents "puts our intelligence officers at risk," and it should result in "criminal prosecution," Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) told "Mornings With Maria" on Friday:

Some of the leaked documents indicated that the United States has 14 Special Forces troops on the ground in Ukraine, a war zone. That news apparently surprised Khanna and his fellow members of Congress:

"I am all for transparency," Khanna said:

"The appropriate place to have that is in hearings with the Armed Services Committee" (of which he is a member).

"Now I do not know, and we will be asking, if there are actual American troops on the ground, in Ukraine. That should be the subject of an Armed Services hearing, but that doesn't justify in any way someone stealing American classified information and leaking it."

Khanna said he has been "a strong proponent that Congress needs to authorize any military involvement in conflict. I have said that in Yemen; I said that in some of our operations in Africa; I have said that about interventions in the Middle East.

"And so we will have hearings, on the Armed Services Committee, and certainly I would take the position that before any American troops should be on the ground in Ukraine, it needs to come to Congress for authorization."