GOP Lawmaker Calls for Investigation of CIA Director Over Media Leaks on “Russian Hacking”
The handling of this “Russian hacker” situation is appalling.
We have nothing but rumors to go on, however, our dishonest media and the irresponsible White House are reporting the story as fact.
Adding to the mayhem, the CIA is refusing to come forward and testify before Congress on the matter, leaving the American people in the dark.
Now, a senior GOP lawmaker is calling for an investigation of CIA Director John Brennan, for leaking information to the two anti-Trump media outlets.
From ABC News:
A senior Republican congressman called for an investigation into whether the head of the CIA leaked to the media while withholding from Congress the agency’s findings that Russians used hacking in an attempt to help Donald Trump win the presidency.
“We have supposedly [CIA Director] John Brennan leaking information to The Washington Post, to a biased newspaper like The New York Times — findings and conclusions that he’s not telling the [House] Intelligence Committee,” said Rep. Peter King of New York in an interview with ABC News’ Martha Raddatz on “This Week.”
King, a former chairman and current member of the House Intelligence Committee, was referring to news stories on Dec. 9 that cited either unnamed officials or intelligence sources and did not name Brennan as a source.
“There should be an investigation of what the Russians did, but also John Brennan and the hit job he seems to be orchestrating against the president-elect,” Donald Trump, King said.
“I’m not saying it didn’t happen,” that Russia interfered in the election to help Trump. “I’m just saying we’ve been given no evidence on it, when we have these stories mysteriously appearing in the newspaper,” King said.
A Democratic congressman, California Rep. Adam Schiff, his party’s senior member on the House Intelligence Committee, pushed back against the criticism of Brennan over the information about the Russian hacking.
“He has done a remarkable job at the agency,” Schiff said on “This Week.” “I don’t think he’s trying to politicize this in any way.”
Schiff continued, “I do think there’s a consensus among the top leadership in the intelligence community, not only of who was responsible [for the hacking], but why. And I think when the review is released by the administration within the next two or three weeks, I think the American people will see that.”
The California Democrat also cautioned that it is “deeply damaging” to the country for Trump to continue casting doubt on the capabilities of the intelligence community over Russia’s election-related hacking.
“For the president-elect to continue to give the Russians deniability is deeply damaging to the country,” Schiff said. “He is doing damage to himself and to his ability to lead the country when he becomes president. We are going to have a national security crisis at some point. It may be very early in the administration or it may be later but it’s going to come and he is going to need to rely on the intelligence community.”
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Nooooooooooooo! !1st we need to have a gag order put on all this Shit,and that includes all the Biased fucking Newspapers, and The Dumb asset senators & Hof Representatives,and that Bitch Christine Polo since !!get 2 agents from the FBI ,cia,and did homeland Security, & the NSA !!do a real investigation! !!and when they get the real answer to who hacked and who all was involved in all the leaking they need to be charged with TREASON & put to Death in an old fashioned Hanging !! This BULLSHIT has to stop Before the fucking Idiot left causes a 2nd revolution! !And they aren’t going to like it since the military and all the right has guns!!so I think it would be real Smart on killary and all her Fucking CryBabies shut up because they won’t like the End Result of a sudden revolution! !Not to mention the fact that they are opening up the U.S. for an outside From all of our friendly ENEMIES !! Just Sayin !LIBS TREAD VERY CAREFULLY !!!
It’s all rumors and a huge distraction from all of Hillary’s crimes. Once again it’s all about the Clintons. They want total control of USA. She should curl up and drink herself to death. Tell us about all the illegal money she got for her campaign from foreigners who wanted to control USA via the white house. China….Saudi Arabia. Praying she rolls over and kisses this world goodbye. The world has been told she is Islam’s whore.
This is all smoke and mirrors to deflect the investigation into the clintons. Why is the media response to the criminal, pedophile ex-president and old hag president wannabe so tepid? I want that pedo bastard and his complicit wife and all their circle in chains till we can hang them. I did not really vote for “forgive and forget”. Has everyone forgotten the e-mails and the proof found about pedophile island? Think people. Pedophiles mean kids were taken, abused, raped and killed or sold to muslims as slaves. Your sister, child, cousin? Where are those kids? As a nation, we need to find them and make every one of the bastards that run this circus, pay with their lives. As an example, a long, long overdue example, and one that everyone knows will happen to them if they try the same thing. Anything less, makes the USA complicit in this crime of the century. The 20th century had mao,stalin and hitler, our century has the clintons.
John Brennan is dirty and he’s been dirty for a long time.
The shit is about to hit the fan!