Senator Sends Warning on GOP Offensive Against Ex-DNC Consultant
WASHINGTON (CN) — Late last November, overshadowed by the daily spectacles of dramatic impeachment testimony in the House, Senate Republicans launched a little-reported offensive against a former Democratic National Committee consultant.
At the center of the storm of the Republican’s investigation is Alexandra Chalupa, a former Democratic consultant who has been vilified in conservative media to advance a conspiracy theory that Ukrainians interfered in the 2016 presidential elections—against President Donald Trump.
After the Russian government’s hack into the Democratic National Committee’s servers, Chalupa reported the breach to federal authorities, who extracted her laptop and smartphone in service of their investigation.
Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., warned on Thursday that the Republicans’ investigation echoes Russian disinformation, and if they succeed, the repercussions could be chilling for private citizens who are victims of a crime.
“The Senators’ request will have a chilling effect on the victims of nation state cyberattacks, and would discourage them from seeking law enforcement assistance, thereby jeopardizing our national security, limiting our ability to respond to sophisticated cyberattacks, and undermining the civil liberties of American citizens,” Wyden wrote in a three-page letter addressed to Attorney General Bill Barr and FBI Director Christopher Wray.
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Under the radar, several Senate committee chairs have been aggressively investigating the Trump theory of the case—to the point of asking DOJ to produce all of Alex Chalupa’s personal info collected by the Russia investigation. A new letter from Wyden calls that “outrageous.”
12:30 PM - Jan 16, 2020
