(CNSNews.com) - Classified documents allegedly leaked by a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman indicated that 14 U.S. Special Forces troops were operating in Ukraine, something that came as a surprise to some members of Congress.

But over the weekend, two Republican congressmen downplayed the information:

"We -- without getting into classified -- at the classified level, it has been publicly stated by John Kirby and it's been reported that there are essentially 70 or so NATO forces, special operators, 14 American, to provide oversight on the military aid that's going into Ukraine to ensure fidelity that it goes to the right place," Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) told "Sunday Morning Futures."

"So that'd be oversight and accountability for weapons going into Ukraine.

"Also, when I was in Kyiv at the embassy, they also provide protection to the embassy and visitors, like delegations like my delegation, when we went through.

"They're not in a combat mode there, just simply ensuring accountability and oversight on the weapons going in."

Likewise, Rep. Mike Turner, chairman of the House intelligence committee, told CBS's "Face the Nation":

"First off, let's be clear, there are - there are no U.S. troops on -- on the ground in Ukraine, other than there are troops that are normally at an embassy protecting the embassy.

"We do not have the boots on the ground," he said.

Host Margaret Brennan repeated, "They're not on the battlefield."

"We do not have -- have -- have troops on the ground," Turner repeated. "So it's absolutely incorrect assumption from the documents that -- that this individual leaked."

Turner described the leaked material as "static documents, meaning they're pictures of an exact period of time. And mitigation can happen, people can change their strategies, and -- and that can change the outcome."

In other words, Turner was saying that concerns expressed in those leaked documents may subsequently have been addressed.

Turner's committee will hold hearings on the leak by someone who, he said, should never have had access to such sensitive information.

"He had no reason -- there was no need to know for him of the information that he was accessing. And the Department of Defense admits in the affidavit that they had the ability to track him. That's going to be the questions my committee is going to be having.

"So, we're going to be having hearings on this. And what we need to do - and from the 9/11 Commission we learned that we needed to more widely disseminate classified information so that people had actionable intelligence that they could piece together puzzles.

"Clearly, we've gone too far. And where we have an instance where someone in Massachusetts who's looking at documents with respect to war plans in Ukraine, and the Department of Defense knows, and that's what our committee is going to be looking at is, how do we make certain we make changes."