U.S. Rep. Will Hurd, former CIA officer, says Trump remark could hurt intelligence employees' morale

[TexasTowelie]

AUSTIN — Neither the Trump administration nor House Democrats properly handled a whistleblower’s complaint about President Donald Trump’s conversation with the leader of Ukraine, U.S. Rep. Will Hurd (R) said late Thursday.

The complaint should have been shared with Congress after seven days, as a federal law designed to allow intelligence officers to report wrongdoing requires, and not after nearly a month, Hurd said at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin.

And Trump’s remark Thursday that spies in the country’s early days were better handled — an apparent allusion to execution for treason — was unfortunate.

“I wouldn’t have said it,” said Hurd, a former CIA officer and Republican from the San Antonio suburb of Helotes.

Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2019/09/26/u-s-rep-will-hurd-former-cia-officer-says-trump-remark-could-hurt-intelligence-employees-morale/

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1. Hurd was one of the few repugs I could listen to yesterday.

He's not totally rw fascist Russian Repug like Nunes and Jordan. I gave the other repugs a shot, but they were quickly so brown nosing to Maguire and the administration or some went directly to batsshit land so I quickly muted them - they got 1-2 min. at most then silence until the following Dem came up. My blood pressure really appreciated this tactic.