Senate Intelligence Leaders Say House G.O.P. Leaked a Senators Text Messages to Fox News.

[MelissaB]

Senate Intelligence Leaders Say House G.O.P. Leaked a Senator’s 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 panel’s top Democrat and a Russian-connected lawyer, according to two congressional officials briefed on the matter.

Senator Richard M. Burr of North Carolina, the committee’s 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 Russia’s 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. Nunes’s 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. Fox’s 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

[blake2012]

1. These GOP ratfuckers are pure evil

[Tom Rinaldo]

6. Yes. But I must say that so far Sen. Nunn has exceeded my expectations of him n/t

[HipChick]

2. Nunes fingerprints..

[MelissaB]

3. Absoutely!

Copies of the messages were originally submitted by Mr. Waldman to the Senate committee. In January, one of Mr. Nunes’s 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. Fox’s report said that it had obtained the documents from a Republican source it did not name.

[MelissaB]

5. I updated the OP with this info.

[world wide wally]

4. We call them law"makers" ?

[MelissaB]

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]

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.