Watergate wasn’t the problem. Deep Throat was the problem.
At least that’s the position of the House Oversight Committee under Jason Chaffetz and the Judiciary Committee chaired by Bob Goodlatte. After spending years of the committee’s time pursuing Hillary Clinton despite a singular lack of evidence, Chaffetz has unleashed the committee over the Trump regime’s Russia connections — but not against Trump. They want to know who is telling the American public the truth about Trump. So they can stop it.
In a letter to the Inspector General, Chaffetz and Goodlatte note their committees’ awesome powers to investigate anything at any time.
The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is the principle oversight committee of the House of Representatives and may at “any time” investigate “any matter” as set forth in House Rule X. The Committee of the Judiciary has jurisdiction over the Department of Justice and the nation’s criminal and surveillance laws.
How is this massive authority to be used? In protection of Donald Trump.
We have serious concerns about the potential inadequate protection of classified information here. … In light of this, we request that your office begin an immediate investigation into whether classified information was mishandled here.
It’s news that’s being celebrated at the high-ish levels.
That’s quite a flip from Trump during the campaign.
This just came out. Wikileaks! I love Wikileaks! I love em. … That’s right, crooked Hillary Clinton. She’s crooked folks. She’s crooked as a three dollar bill.
That’s right, lock her up.
Okay, here’s one that just came out.
Trump pauses at that point to smirk his way through a “lock her up” chant.
And of course there was Trump’s plea to Russia, and to the press, to both hack and leak even more.
It would be interesting to see. I will tell you this.
Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.
Leaks of information, both private and government, are a deep concern. Both for privacy reasons and for reasons of national security. But the difference in how the information is being treated then and now is astounding.
The information coming out now is information that the FBI sat on for months and which Harry Reid begged Comey to release to the public before the election.
The pugilistic Reid, who plans to retire after finishing out this term in Congress, penned a blistering letter to Comey Sunday, accusing the FBI chief of holding back “explosive” information about Donald Trump’s close Russian ties while possibly violating the Hatch Act by reviving the Clinton email investigation.