Republicans On House Intel Leaked Senator Mark Warner’s Text Messages
This is truly without precedent.
An investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee has found that Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee were responsible for leaking the text messages of a Democratic Senator, The New York Times is reporting.
According to two congressional officials who were briefed on the matter, the Senate Intelligence Committee has concluded that Republicans on the House Intel Committee were behind the leak of private text messages between Mark Warner and a Russian-connected lawyer.
The report goes on to note that Senators Burr and Warner were so upset by the leak that they demanded a rare meeting with Speaker Paul Ryan to inform him of their findings.
They also used the meeting with the Speaker to raise concerns about the direction of the House Intelligence Committee under Devin Nunes.
“The text messages were leaked just days after the same House Republicans had taken the extraordinary step of publicly releasing, over the objections of the F.B.I., a widely disputed memorandum based on sensitive government secrets. Taken together, the actions suggested a pattern of partisanship and unilateral action by the once-bipartisan House panel,” The New York Times notes.
Read the full New York Times report here.
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