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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,036 posts)
Sat May 19, 2018, 08:43 PM May 2018

Schumer: GOP efforts to identify FBI informant 'close to crossing a legal line'

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 Mueller’s 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."




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.




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.
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Schumer: GOP efforts to identify FBI informant 'close to crossing a legal line' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2018 OP
Why is it only "Close"? Cha May 2018 #1
Cut the mealy mouth gratuitous May 2018 #2
Oh for gawd sake Schumer, just say they crossed the line. NT jrthin May 2018 #3
Devin Nunes in a just world would be stripped of congressional immunity. Enoki33 May 2018 #4
Remember Valerie Plame? Maraya1969 May 2018 #5
And as someone posted said, Wellstone ruled May 2018 #8
It was a stupid Democratic mistake to not prosecute those people. eom Maraya1969 May 2018 #9
GOPers do not care about the USA . . Iliyah May 2018 #6
The moment that they even questioned who it may or may not be Sherman A1 May 2018 #7
+1000 pazzyanne May 2018 #10
I have given up the pretense of a patriotic GOP. Thunderbeast May 2018 #11
Dudes, our legal system considers someone "innocent until proven guilty." Nitram May 2018 #12
Amen fountainofyouth May 2018 #13
He's been identified RandomAccess May 2018 #14
WTF is he thinking? triron May 2018 #15
I know, right? RandomAccess May 2018 #16

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
2. Cut the mealy mouth
Sat May 19, 2018, 08:50 PM
May 2018

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.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
8. And as someone posted said,
Sat May 19, 2018, 09:27 PM
May 2018

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.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
7. The moment that they even questioned who it may or may not be
Sat May 19, 2018, 09:25 PM
May 2018

they crossed the line. They are not close to doing so, they left that in the rearview mirror long ago.

Thunderbeast

(3,417 posts)
11. I have given up the pretense of a patriotic GOP.
Sat May 19, 2018, 10:47 PM
May 2018

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)
12. Dudes, our legal system considers someone "innocent until proven guilty."
Sat May 19, 2018, 11:08 PM
May 2018

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)
13. Amen
Sat May 19, 2018, 11:19 PM
May 2018

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)
14. He's been identified
Sun May 20, 2018, 04:05 PM
May 2018

and I was shocked and thoroughly disgusted that it was Ken Delanian who wrote the article --




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
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