More Senators Say They Haven't Been Briefed on Clinton Cash
On Sunday night, New York Times reporter Amy Chozick revealed that "members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee" had been briefed on the most rake-worthy muck in the upcoming book Clinton Cash. On Monday and Tuesday, some of that committee's members revealed that they hadn't yet been briefed; author Peter Schweizer had not sat them down to explain what could come out and bloody up the Clintons.
"You know, somebody else asked me that this morning," said Georgia Senator David Perdue, a freshman Republican. "I haven't met with him; I don't have a personal copy of the book."
"I got a lot of books to read," said Perdue's Republican colleague, Johnny Isakson, who had not been briefed by Schweizer. "I don't usually read them about Democrats, unless they're dead–ancient history."
In a statement, California Senator Barbara Boxer said that any briefing that might have occurred excluded members of the minority. "As the longest serving member of the committee," she said, "I was never briefed on the book and I know of no other Democrats on the committee who were briefed on it."
In a short interview, Delaware Senator Chris Coons, a Democrat, confirmed Boxer's story. "That is a concern to me," he said of the selective briefings. "I read the article, and I also had the question: In what context were they briefed? I have to assume that the author individually reached out to Republican senators and offered them a briefing. I have not heard from that author on that briefing."
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