Senate Intelligence Leaders Say House G.O.P. Leaked a Senator’s
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Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 1 Mar 2018. — The Senate Intelligence
Committee has concluded that Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee
were behind the leak of private text messages between the Senate panel’s top
Democrat and a Adam Waldman, who knew Christopher Steele. The messages show
that the senator tried for weeks to arrange a meeting with Christopher Steele,
the former British spy who assembled a dossier of salacious claims about
connections between Mr. Trump, his associates and Russia. The Senate committee
has had difficulty making contact with Mr. Steele, whom it views as a key
witness. The text messages were leaked just days after the same House
Republicans had taken the extraordinary step of publicly releasing, over the
objections of the F.B.I., a widely disputed memorandum. Fox News published the
text messages, which were sent via a secure messaging application, in early
February.
Senator Richard M. Burr of North Carolina, the committee’s Republican chairman,
and Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat, were so perturbed by the
leak that they demanded a rare meeting with Speaker Paul D. Ryan last month to
inform him of their findings. They used the meeting to raise broader concerns
about the direction of the House Intelligence Committee under its chairman,
Representative Devin Nunes of California, according to two congressional
officials.
