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House GOP leaders have launched an internal review into how someone secretly recorded and leaked audio of a private 2016 leadership meeting in which Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) jokes about how Russia is paying off President Trump.
Sources familiar with the review told The Hill that GOP leadership is currently researching what federal statutes or House rules could be applied to hold the leaker accountable. Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has voiced concerns that more audio recordings of sensitive leadership discussions could be leaked.
Leaders are also trying to figure out whether the individual who recorded the meeting passed or sent the audio of the high-level, closed-door meeting to a foreign government or foreign agent. National security and foreign policy implications are being evaluated as well, sources said.
I believe it is important that these questions get answered, said a GOP lawmaker familiar with leaderships review. I suspect this is only going to become more and more common.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/335340-house-gop-leaders-launch-review-into-leak
apcalc
(4,462 posts)Par for the GOP course.
Meanwhile ...Trump leaks? To foreign governments?
Nah, nothing there...
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Gee, that sounds bad.
Republicans: Yes, it is bad; and we intend to find out how anyone learned of it.
ProudLib72
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eleny
(46,166 posts)Haven't they been watching what's happening to Trump & Co?
They must think it'll be like the good old days of going after HRC.
Intel must even know when these guys ask their kids to "pull my finger" during family time.
This can't end well so stock up on popcorn.
Initech
(100,029 posts)eleny
(46,166 posts)They must think it's some lowly staffer. Well, it may be but I'd put money on a staffer here and there being intel. Just saying.
If I were GOP leadership I would go slow about all this and not run around making announcements like this. Look what happened to pinhead Gowdy recently in the hearing. He was left looking like his true ass self. Doi.
Intel folk are way smarter than the likes of McCarthy.
benld74
(9,901 posts)sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Because if McMullin was wearing a wire in this meeting, GOP knows he recorded much worse meetings.