Republican who wants journalists jailed for publishing leaks revealed classified intel during...
Source: RawStory
Republican who wants journalists jailed for publishing leaks revealed classified intel during Russia hearing
DAVID FERGUSON
24 MAR 2017 AT 13:26 ET
Republican U.S. Rep. Peter King (NY) leaked classified information during Monday’s public hearing on the FBI investigation into connections between Pres. Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and the Russian government.
According to Ryan Lizza at the New Yorker, in a little-noticed moment of the five-hour hearing, King revealed to the world what members of the House Intelligence Committee could only read in a classified report, “that historically Russians have supported Republicans.”
A Democrat on the Intelligence Committee told Lizza that this revelation has been the subject of a major debate among the 16 spy agencies that are known collectively as the intelligence community or IC, but that debate has been kept out of the public eye. Republicans, the House member said, would not want the public to know that Russia considers the U.S. a weaker adversary under GOP rule.
“I was really taken aback that it came up in the hearing,” said the representative. “I might just observe to you, if there was such a conclusion, you can bet that the Republicans would have pushed back very, very hard about such a conclusion. And I don’t want to say more than that.”
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