Is The Senate Intel Staffer Arrested Tonight A DEm?

[Me.]

Don't know his name or I'd look

[manor321]

1. Don't know

I don't know, but I am very nervous about this story. I don't trust Sessions to properly decide when it is OK to obtain private records from reporters. I fear they are trying to shut down investigations from the press.

[Demsrule86]

2. The article I read said the info was not classified?

Who knows.

[hlthe2b]

3. James A. Wolfe, 58, the former director of security for the Senate Intelligence Committee

Not assigned to one specific Senator, but the committee itself, so don't know.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. He's been there for +30 years so could be either, or neither.

[Kajun Gal]

5. Lawrence O'Donnell and Rachel said repub. Who knows. It's all too frickin weird!

[saidsimplesimon]

6. Lawrence was once a

Washington insider. I don't recall he has ever lied or exaggerated on air.

[Me.]

7. Hope He Isn't A Dem

can you imagine the twitters tomorrow if he is?

[Cha]

11. I know.. I googled but nothing comes up

Democrat or Republican.

I'd think one of those stories would have pointed that out.. I even read a fox source.

[Me.]

12. OMG

That's when it's bad, when you have to check out Faux...

[Cha]

13. Yeah, I wasn't

wasn't scared. lol

[Me.]

14. ...

[Cha]

15. Here's something else.. don't know if it's more helpful?..

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[manor321]

8. I didn't hear that

I watched both shows and didn't hear them say that.

[lisa58]

29. I heard Lawrence say...

He didn’t know him but since he has worked for the committee for over 30 years that he was bi-partisan

[Cha]

9. Just saw this in LBN..

Link to tweet

New York Times reporter Ali Watkins had her emails and phone records seized by the Justice Department, the newspaper said Thursday night.

And a veteran Senate Intelligence Committee staffer Watkins had a personal relationship with was indicted on charges of giving false statements during a federal leak investigation.

A federal prosecutor notified Watkins on Feb. 13 that the DOJ obtained information on her Google email accounts and Verizon phone, the Times reported. The seized records spanned years before and after Watkins joined the Times in 2017 to cover federal law enforcement.

According to Justice Department rules for getting information from, or records of, members of the news media, "the approach in every instance must be to strike the proper balance among several vital interests: Protecting national security, ensuring public safety, promoting effective law enforcement and the fair administration of justice, and safeguarding the essential role of the free press in fostering government accountability and an open society."

Read more: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/683548002

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142078333

[Me.]

10. OOOH Mahalo

Good Info

[Exotica]

16. Apparently a Democrat

https://fas.org/irp/congress/2014_cr/ssci-staff.html

[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 150 (Wednesday, December 10, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6529-S6530]


THANKING CURRENT AND PAST DEMOCRATIC STAFF OF THE SENATE SELECT
COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE

Mr. REID. Mr. President, I rise to thank the current and past
Democratic staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for
their hard work and diligence on the Committee Study of the Central
Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program.
Committee staff spent 7 years preparing the report, going through
more than 6 million pages of documents and writing a final report that
is over 6,700 pages, including 38,000 footnotes. Staff worked
incredibly long hours over many years and sacrificed time with their
families and friends. They overcame significant obstacles to put out
this report. They took no short-cuts in their research. And they took
no liberties with the facts.
The staff produced a report of historic importance, which will be
studied for many years to come. Because of their work, the true facts
about the CIA's interrogation program under President Bush are now
available for all Americans to understand. Because of their work, we as
a country can commit that never again will we repeat

[[Page S6530]]

these mistakes. This report, and the work of the staff, is an
outstanding example of the constitutional oversight role that the
Senate can and should play.
I want to particularly thank David Grannis, the committee's staff
director and Daniel Jones, the lead staffer and author of much of the
report. Many other committee staffers past and present participated in
producing the report including: Evan Gottesman, Chad Tanner, Alissa
Starzak, Nate Adler, Jennifer Barrett, Nick Basciano, Michael Buchwald,
Jim Catella, Eric Chapman, John Dickas, Lorenzo Goco, Andrew Grotto,
Tressa Guenov, Clete Johnson, Michael Noblet, Michael Pevzner, Tommy
Ross, Caroline Tess, James Wolfe, and Andy Johnson.

____________________

[Cha]

18. Oh dear.. thanks, Exotica..

Link to tweet

Now when are they going to arrest Fraud for Continually Lying his head OFF to the American People?

[Exotica]

20. I found another link (the official one) that confirms that first link

https://www.congress.gov/crec/2014/12/10/CREC-2014-12-10.pdf

page 177

[Cha]

27. Thanks.. we could have

figured.

Good Luck to Mr James Wolfe!

[Me.]

19. Damn

Thanks

[pangaia]

17. It is an openly blatent attack on a free press.

[triron]

21. Something malevalent may be at work here.

[pangaia]

24. No question....

[Kajun Gal]

22. Watching Rachel rerun to see exactly what she said. Thought I heard repub...not sure now.

[Kajun Gal]

23. Watching Rachel rerun to see if I heard correctly....

[TeamPooka]

25. Now Trumpo thinks lying to Fed Investigators is a crime when he pardoned a guy for it last week.

[Kajun Gal]

26. Guess I heard wrong. Wishful "hearing"? It's all driving me nuts.

[struggle4progress]

28. THANKING CURRENT AND PAST DEMOCRATIC STAFF OF THE SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE

Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 150 (Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Pages S6529-S6530

Mr. REID. Mr. President, I rise to thank the current and past Democratic staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for
their hard work and diligence on the Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program ...

The staff produced a report of historic importance, which will be studied for many years to come. Because of their work, the true facts
about the CIA's interrogation program under President Bush are now available for all Americans to understand. Because of their work, we as a country can commit that never again will we repeat these mistakes. This report, and the work of the staff, is an outstanding example of the constitutional oversight role that the Senate can and should play ...

Many other committee staffers past and present participated in producing the report including .. James Wolfe ...

https://fas.org/irp/congress/2014_cr/ssci-staff.html

So the Dems had hired him as staff. I don'y knoew if that means anything about his actual registration