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Senate Intelligence Leaders Say House G.O.P. Leaked a Senators Texts
WASHINGTON The Senate Intelligence Committee has concluded that Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee were behind the leak of private text messages between the Senate panels top Democrat and a Russian-connected lawyer, according to two congressional officials briefed on the matter.
Senator Richard M. Burr of North Carolina, the committees Republican chairman, and Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat, were so perturbed by the leak that they demanded a rare meeting with Speaker Paul D. Ryan last month to inform him of their findings. They used the meeting with Mr. Ryan to raise broader concerns about the direction of the House Intelligence Committee under its chairman, Representative Devin Nunes of California, the officials said.
To the senators, who are overseeing what is effectively the last bipartisan investigation on Capitol Hill into Russias interference in the 2016 election, the leak was a serious breach of protocol and a partisan attack by one intelligence committee against the other.
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Copies of the messages were originally submitted by Mr. Waldman to the Senate committee. In January, one of Mr. Nuness staff members requested that copies be shared with the House committee as well, according to a person familiar with the request who was not authorized to talk about it publicly. Days later, the messages were published by Fox News, the person said. Foxs report said that it had obtained the documents from a Republican source it did not name.
More: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/us/politics/senate-intelligence-nunes-leaks.html?smid=pl-share
WASHINGTON The Senate Intelligence Committee has concluded that Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee were behind the leak of private text messages between the Senate panels top Democrat and a Russian-connected lawyer, according to two congressional officials briefed on the matter.
Senator Richard M. Burr of North Carolina, the committees Republican chairman, and Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat, were so perturbed by the leak that they demanded a rare meeting with Speaker Paul D. Ryan last month to inform him of their findings. They used the meeting with Mr. Ryan to raise broader concerns about the direction of the House Intelligence Committee under its chairman, Representative Devin Nunes of California, the officials said.
To the senators, who are overseeing what is effectively the last bipartisan investigation on Capitol Hill into Russias interference in the 2016 election, the leak was a serious breach of protocol and a partisan attack by one intelligence committee against the other.
... snip
Copies of the messages were originally submitted by Mr. Waldman to the Senate committee. In January, one of Mr. Nuness staff members requested that copies be shared with the House committee as well, according to a person familiar with the request who was not authorized to talk about it publicly. Days later, the messages were published by Fox News, the person said. Foxs report said that it had obtained the documents from a Republican source it did not name.
More: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/us/politics/senate-intelligence-nunes-leaks.html?smid=pl-share
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Senate Intelligence Leaders Say House G.O.P. Leaked a Senators Text Messages to Fox News. (Original Post)
MelissaB
Mar 2018
OP
Yes. But I must say that so far Sen. Nunn has exceeded my expectations of him n/t
Tom Rinaldo
Mar 2018
#6
blake2012
(1,294 posts)1. These GOP ratfuckers are pure evil
Tom Rinaldo
(22,912 posts)6. Yes. But I must say that so far Sen. Nunn has exceeded my expectations of him n/t
HipChick
(25,485 posts)2. Nunes fingerprints..
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)3. Absoutely!
Copies of the messages were originally submitted by Mr. Waldman to the Senate committee. In January, one of Mr. Nuness staff members requested that copies be shared with the House committee as well, according to a person familiar with the request who was not authorized to talk about it publicly. Days later, the messages were published by Fox News, the person said. Foxs report said that it had obtained the documents from a Republican source it did not name.
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)5. I updated the OP with this info.
world wide wally
(21,742 posts)4. We call them law"makers" ?
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)7. From Clint Watts
This is a big deal. House committee undermining a Senate Committee that has done the best job so far at examining Russian interference in 2016
Link to tweet
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)8. "A serious breach of protocol"
So, not illegal? No worries, then. All to be swept under the rug, and let us speak of it no more.