House Intel Chair Suspends Staff Member

AP ^ | By KATHERINE SHRADER

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WASHINGTON -- House Intelligence Chairman Peter Hoekstra has suspended a Democratic staff member because of concerns he may have leaked a high-level intelligence assessment to The New York Times last month.

In a letter obtained by The Associated Press Thursday night, Rep. Ray LaHood, R-Ill., a committee member, said that an unidentified staffer requested the document from National Intelligence Director John Negroponte three days before the Sept. 23 story about its conclusions

[piasa]

In case you never saw this... noticed this old thread when looking up Michael Hayden connection with Negroponte [the guy who classified the once-public Harmony database] after Hayden- who now works for CNN - made his recent comments bringing up the 2007 NIE in an effort to play down Netanyahu’s intel haul.

A freeper [DarthVader] on the Hayden thread linked an article from 2017 where anti-Trumpers were upset at being blacklisted from work in the Trump admin... both Hayden and Negroponte were on it and Hayden used to work under Neroponte. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/never-trump-national-security-republicans-fear-they-have-been-blacklisted/2017/01/16/a2fadf54-d9a3-11e6-b8b2-cb5164beba6b_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.624342a6a24a]

Anyway, the scheme using the 2007NIE and smears timed for the election where Pelosi would rise to power in this thread I’m posting on is worth a read in that light and in light of Hayden coming out now to bash Netanyahu, it is familiar and interesting.