(Rep) Rooney: Entire Republican Staff of House Intelligence Committee Is Under Investigation

[MelissaB]

Rooney: Entire Republican Staff of House Intelligence Committee Is Under Investigation

Rep. Tom Rooney says the atmosphere on the House Intelligence Committee is “absolute poison”:

Rooney said one reason for the tension is an erosion of trust, exacerbated by an ongoing ethics investigation into the “entire Republican staff,” including “the woman up front that answers the phone” for alleged leaks. He later added that the matter was being handled by the Office of Congressional Ethics.

Leaks, you say? From Republican staffers? I am shocked.

Link at Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/02/rooney-entire-republican-staff-of-house-intelligence-committee-is-under-investigation/

[Iliyah]

1. Damn, this whole Republican party's WH, administration and congress

are corrupt as hell.

[greyl]

2. On Rooney...

On June 13, 2012, Rooney was one of five members of Congress (including Michele Bachmann, Trent Franks, Louie Gohmert, Lynn Westmoreland) to send letters to the Inspectors General of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and the Department of State seeking investigations into what they claimed was the U.S. government’s involvement with the Muslim Brotherhood.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Rooney

[democratisphere]

3. redumbliCONs have been corrupt for many decades; the current administration and GOP Congress

has taken the corruption to whole new quantum level.

[Hortensis]

4. Wow! Kevin Drum should have ended with "more to come."

Office of Congressional Ethics, though? Wish it were the special investigator, but it's a step.

[doc03]

5. There is an "Office of Congressional Ethics" LOL