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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Saturday said Republican lawmakers efforts to uncover the identity of an FBI informant in order to obstruct special counsel Robert Muellers investigation comes close to "crossing a legal line."
Schumer was tweeting his support of a statement from the Senate Intelligence Committee's top Democrat, Mark Warner (Va.), who warned Republican lawmakers against exposing the identity of the informant who gave investigators information about possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Warner said in a separate Twitter thread on Friday, "It would be at best irresponsible, and at worst potentially illegal, for members of Congress to use their positions to learn the identity of an FBI source for the purpose of undermining the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in our election."
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Exposing sources makes it that much harder for every part of the intelligence community to gather intelligence on those who wish to do us harm, Warner wrote.
The next day, Schumer said Warner's statement was "on the money" and serves as a severe warning to GOP representatives who are trying to tamper with the investigation.
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http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/388476-schumer-gops-efforts-to-identify-fbi-informant-close-to-crossing-a-legal-line
They're talking to you Devin Nunes.
Cha
(297,314 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)It is way over the line, well into illegal territory. The Republicans had no compunction about calling NSA Susan Rice out for doing her job. She was perfectly within the purview of her position to ask that identities of Trump campaign operatives an intelligence report be unmasked. Yet the wingnut-o-sphere went ballistic. Congressmen using their position to out intelligence operatives is totally irresponsible and illegal. Say just that.
jrthin
(4,836 posts)Enoki33
(1,587 posts)Maraya1969
(22,483 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)nothing ever happened to Dick Cheney did it. Libby took a hit over his lying,but not for his real role as the one who created a false Narrative to provide cover for Bush,Cheney,Karl Rove and of course,Judy Miller.
How many more people have to die in order for the Rethugs to try to come up their Crimes.
Maraya1969
(22,483 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Party over Country.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)they crossed the line. They are not close to doing so, they left that in the rearview mirror long ago.
pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)Thunderbeast
(3,417 posts)They are ALL either corrupt syncopats or enablers of the same. Every Republican president since Nixon got there by colluding with enemy rival states, or outright stealing elections through malice and conspiracy. President Dennison is just the current Republican criminal to serve the kleptocracy.
Unified government has produced a criminal looting of the work and industry of future generations sold as a stimulus tax cut. When it fails to deliver the promised jobs, who will hold th accountable?
They are criminals. Their racist supporters deserve no quarter.
Nitram
(22,822 posts)You are playing the right wing game calling our Democratic representative "mealy mouthed" for sticking to our constitutional protections. What Schumer and Warner are saying is exactly the right call within our rule of law system. Try to catch up guys. This is not an autocracy yet. They have made serious accusations, and very appropriate legal warnings, even if they don't meet your impatient calls for a lynching on the spot. Read the constitution and get with the democratic agenda please.
fountainofyouth
(409 posts)The courts don't take kindly to people who shoot their mouths off ahead of the facts. The GOP keep acting in total befuddlement that no court has convicted an Obama administration official of all their crimes, forgetting of course that their accusations are based totally on emotion and not any understanding of law.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)and I was shocked and thoroughly disgusted that it was Ken Delanian who wrote the article --
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Ken Dilanian @KenDilanianNBC
The professor who met with both Page and Papadopoulos is Stefan Halper, a former official in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan administrations who has been a paid consultant to an internal Pentagon think tank known as the Office of Net Assessment.
TWEETUBGl Was there really a spy inside the Trump campaign, as the president says?
The president's claim of a "spy" inside his campaign has been dismissed as absurd, but the FBI has been known to send informants to speak to suspects. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna875516
triron
(22,007 posts)RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)Very very disappointing