Did Representative Nunes violate the espionage act or other laws by going to President Trump with secret information about intercepted communications involving Trump associates?
That question is explored by Matthew Schofield in this McClatchy story: Did Rep. Nunes' Disclosure of Secret Intelligence Data Violate the Law?
Who will investigate Nunes’ actions? Certainly not the House Intelligence Committee that he chairs.
Only three days earlier, the chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes of California, had insisted that revealing such information from secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants was worthy of criminal charges under the Espionage Act.
“Did he violate the Espionage Act? I don’t know enough to make that determination right now,” said Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat and a former prosecutor. “But even without knowing all the facts, it’s pretty obvious that he was perilously close.”
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