What do Republicans do when whistleblowers reveal their evil secrets?

Go after the whistleblowers, of course. Fixing the problem? Not an option.

Officials at the Texas Youth Commission, who earlier promised a new era of transparency at the troubled agency, have undertaken an investigation into who is leaking information to the public and to state legislators.

Two sources familiar with the inquiry said it was prompted by a July 13 article in the American-Statesman disclosing that Youth Commission officials had canceled the release of more than 150 teenage offenders after discovering that many had served little time on their sentences for serious violent crimes such as murder, aggravated sexual assault, aggravated robbery and kidnapping.