The Rep. Murphy scandal points to another harrowing possibility:

[haveahart]

How many Congressional staffs are infiltrated with Russian plants or alt-right plants"
He said his anti-abortion statements were not written by him but by his staff. Made me go hmmm...

How much control to Congressional staffers really have over policy and positions by our elected officials. And who are these staffers really? Lobbyist plants, Russian infiltrators, alt-right and or neo-Nazi surrogates? Just wondering.

[HopeAgain]

1. If you hear the sound of hooves, think horse, not zebra.

Rep. Murphy is just a lying, hypocritical republican trying to deal with getting caught.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Ultimately, the person at the top is responsible...

If he's taking comments from staff and blindly reading them on camera, it's a big problem, regardless of level of gov't he occupies.

If he has Russian agents on staff, he's just as guilty of treason as the staffer.

[zipplewrath]

3. Argument against term limits

It's actually one of the arguments against term limits for legislators. The staff tends to hang around and have all the knowledge and expertise.

[Lint Head]

4. I've known several Russians in my life. One was a woman

whose husband was a professor at a university. He was Russian also. I got into a conversation one day about politics with her and it came out that she was Pro Stalin. I couldn't believe it. I gave her the statistics on the people he put to death and she replied that it was all American propaganda and not true. If someone like that with those ideas can navigate Society in the US, can you imagine how much easier it would be for someone trained as a spy to fit in would be. I think it's not only Facebook and Twitter or the internet in general but also it's very easy for subversives to get into the USA and foment devisive paranoia. To think there are no spies among us is folly. We are focused on technology when human contact results in better intelligence.

[mopinko]

5. how many staffers have kompromat on the boss?