Discussion: Top House Dem Wants To Know How Name Of FBI Informant Leaked To Media

Whoever did this has committed treason, full stop.

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Moreover, the intentional disclosure of the identity of a covert agent is a crime under federal law.

As afterthoughts go, thatā€™s not a bad one.

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Why are we giving life to S-P-I-G-A-T?

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Dick Cheney outed a CIA agent, too. The GOP has no moral grounding.

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This is the leakerā€¦

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Is Cheney back on the scene?

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This is even worse - at least that happened on friendly turf. This is basically a gift-wrapped present to the SVR.

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That is an improved look.

Heā€™s ever-present behind the scenes.

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No, itā€™s not treason. Look at the Constitution for the definition of treason. This isnā€™t close.

We donā€™t help our cause by over-stating like the people on the other side.

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Maybe theyā€™ll have time to investigate after theyā€™re done with Uranium One, Pizzagate, Benghazi!!!, & how the hell Bigfoot managed to have twins with an alien.

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I would suggest you ask Devin Nunes. He keeps secrets real well donā€™cha know.

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Remember when such a disclosure by itself was a massive scandal?

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Iā€™ve cut Rosenstein a lot of slack, but on this one, he needs to step up. Nadler has written a compelling letter that the law was broken here. He has also effectively highlighted that we have a major national interest in protecting intel assets, including informants. In a normal, functioning Democracy an investigation must be opened in a situation like this.

If Rosenstein were to cite Nadlerā€™s letter and open an investigation, the GOP would back off. The argument for one is compelling. Wray also needs to back him up and defend his agency.

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Letā€™s seeā€¦THIS DOJ considers it a ā€˜plusā€™ that they ā€˜outedā€™ an agentā€¦itā€™s will interesting to see the ā€˜responseā€™.

Yes, maybe theyā€™ll get into as much trouble as Dick Cheney when he outed an active CIA Agent. I think everyone knows it was Nunes.

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True. For a case of real, honest-to-god, red-blooded American treason refer to Nixon having secret meetings with the Saigon government back in 1968 when he purposely scuttled peace talks in order to help his political chances. LBJ caught his treasonous ass red-handed and even called Nixon to let him know the jig was up. Nixon lied, of course, and claimed he didnā€™t speak with Saigon. Bullshit. This was the real deal; Nixon should have been tried for high treason and executed. Just think of all the soldiers who died because Tricky Dickhead decided to kill the peace talks, talks which would have hastened the end of the war and helped elect Hubert Humphrey. Thatā€™s your GOP, folks. They seem nice.

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You are forgettting the more recent agreement between Dotard 1.0 Ronald Reaganā€™s Presidential Campaign and the Regime of The Ayatollah Khomeini, to keep our hostages extra months in captivity in Iran so that Jimmy Carter could not pull off an ā€œOctober Surpriseā€ before the election. And to leave no doubt that it was Reagan and not Carter who would get the credit for their release, the Iranians cooperated in keeping the hostages until Ronald Reagan was on the podium being sworn in as President. Watergate only exposed the tip of the iceberg, and the iceberg of GOP Dirty Tricks has continued unabated and even more brazen.

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There is treason on the other side though. What do you call selling out American foreign policy interests for cash? This has been happening REPEATEDLY in the Trump administration - and a LOT of them are doing it.

And in this particular instance - leaking the identity of a source to destroy the Mueller investigation makes that person an accessory to that treason.

I hold a great number of them as dirty traitors. Sorry but itā€™s staring us in the face.

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