What if Jason Chaffetz is stepping down to prevent russian black-mail? [View all]

[DetlefK]

http://www.salon.com/2017/04/20/why-is-jason-chaffetz-running-away-a-rising-republican-star-just-doesnt-retire-from-congress-for-nothing/
Controversial commentator Louise Mensch, one of the most vocal proponents that there had been a wide-ranging Russian plot to put Donald Trump in the White House, recently floated the idea that Vladimir Putin’s people have “kompromat” (or compromising information) on Chaffetz that they are using to blackmail him.

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So there's your problem:
A foreign power has kompromat on you.
If they publish it, your career is dead.
They won't publish it, if you do something treasonous.
If that treason never comes out, you have damaged your country.
If the treason does come out, your career is dead.

The only way out is to prevent that foreign power from publishing the kompromat.
How?
Become useless as an asset.
If they don't publish the kompromat out of spite, your career is saved.
If they do publish the kompromat out of spite, you can still claim that you stepped down because you didn't want to be used against your country.