Posted by Tina
Late on Thursday Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the first indictment in the Russia probe:
Senior Justice Department officials announced late Thursday criminal charges against Senate Intelligence Committee’s long-time director of security James Wolfe.
The indictment charges Wolfe with making false statements to the FBI and details how Wolfe passed classified information, including presumably information related to one-time Trump campaign aide Carter Page, to a series of media outlets, confirming long-standing suspicions of the career intelligence community’s complicity in leaks. The three-count indictment charges Wolfe with separate instances of making false statements to the FBI, not directly charging him for leaking classified information, but appearing to detail how he did allegedly leaked classified information to reporters and then allegedly lied about it to the FBI.
The 11-page indictment does not name the reporters and does not name the person about whom classified information was leaked, but labels them as “Reporter #1,” “Reporter #2,” “Reporter #3,” and “Reporter #4” as well as “MALE-1” respectively. It is presumed that “MALE-1” is Page, the ex-Trump aide, and “Reporter #2” is then-Buzzfeed News now New York Times reporter Ali Watkins.
Watkins broke the Carter Page angle of the “Russia investigation” back in April 2017 with a story called “A Former Trump Adviser Met With A Russian Spy.” In it, Watkins claimed, “The revelation of Page’s connection to Russian intelligence — which occurred more than three years before his association with Trump — is the most clearly documented contact to date between Russian intelligence and someone in Trump’s orbit.”
Once again a romantic relationship is involved. Wolf was having an affair with the NYT reporter and emails reveal he was giving her classified information: “I always tried to give you as much information that I could and to do the right thing with it so you could get that scoop before anyone else…”
See also, Mata Hari journalism? Veteran Senate Intelligence Committee staffer, in romantic relationship with NYT reporter, arrested in probe of leaks, by Thomas Lifson at The American Thinker:
James A. Wolfe, former director of security for the Senate Intelligence Committee, lost everything when he was arrested by the FBI last night. A review of media reports on the background of the arrest suggests that the lure of romance with a nubile female journalism school student was his undoing.
This is a story with at least two compelling themes: the apparent betrayal of national security by a veteran Senate staffer and the rise in a mere four years of a comely female reporter in a romantic relationship with Wolfe from unpaid undergraduate intern at McClatchy to the lofty post of New York Times national security correspondent.
This article contains excerpted portions of the indictment.
There are free speech issues relating to the reporter whose phone and email records were seized. Under normal circumstances I would be against such seizures but when evidence of criminal leaking that could threaten national security is involved and the reporter/news agency doesn’t bother to notify the FBI I think it’s justified. Free speech rights don’t entitle betrayal to ones country.
The damn has broken, can’t wait to see what happens next! Drain that swamp!!!
It’s time for you people to get off the plantation!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCS2b87SbiM
Welcome to the revolution!
Ah, poor Tina …
Would that it had been an OA official and not a congressional employee, you might be granted a tiny crow. And, of course, an indictment is not a conviction. Sometimes it is nothing but smoke. Alas, not even Kiluaia could obscure the fact that The President of these United States went to the G7 Summit and behaved like a two- year-old.
Sigh. And NOT greatness.
Libby your prejudiced impression doesn’t translate to truth but have at it. For the time being at least you are powerless to do little else. I have yet to hear a coherent or substantive idea emanating from those who represent you. In fact I do hear a lot of hate, resentment, and anger. I hear a lot of gibberish…the language of two-year olds!
We’ve been subsidizing the Europeans since WWII. We did it then to help them rebuild after the war…and it became a habit. THEY have been shirking their own duties and responsibilities and taking advantage of our generosity. Trump stood tall and had the stones to tell them, “Enough! It’s time to re-negotiate the relationship.”
Failure to see things as they are is a common trait of the left. So is the adult ability to give credit where credit is due.
Where there’s smoke there’s fire, Libby.
It’s early yet.
And sometime little fish are given lesser charges in exchange for information to get the bigger fish.
Re: “I have yet to hear a coherent or substantive idea emanating from those who represent you.”
I have yet to hear a coherent or substantive idea emanating from Lippy.