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Source: TPM
March 2, 2017, 6:49 PM EDT
House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) said Thursday that information about Attorney General Jeff Sessions' conversations with a Russian ambassador "should never have made it to the public domain."
"We cannot overlook the fact that the methodology of the collection and the content of that transcript never should have made into the public domain," Gowdy said in an appearance on MSNBC. "And people may like that it did today, because it hurts Republicans, but what it really does is it hurts our country because you are leaking classified information."
He said that "all facets" of Sessions' contacts are important, but the leak particularly so.
"I'm not focused on the leak, but the leak is really, really, important," Gowdy said.
Gowdy also said that "Congress is not equipped to investigate crime."
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He called for an investigation of "every facet" of Russia's attempts to interfere with anything "from elections to ..................................................................................
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