Yesterday Jim Addison blogged about the Democratic staff person who was suspended for leaking national security informaton. The identity of that Dem staffer has now been revealed.
The aide was identified by other congressional officials as Larry Hanauer. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of a pending investigation into the leak, said Hanauer had held positions with the departments of Defense and Homeland Security before joining the professional staff of Democrats on the House intelligence panel about two years ago.
A spokesman for Harman said Hanauer was not available to comment. His attorney, Jonathan Turley, expressed anger that Hanauer was named in news reports Friday and said there was no evidence the aide leaked the intelligence report.
Turley wrote to committee leaders, “When a staffer can become fodder for politics in this way, it discourages qualified people from seeking to join public service.”
Other Democratic aides said Hanauer was familiar with rules surrounding classified materials and said they were skeptical he would leak information.
The Squiggler has a good roundup, as does Michelle Malkin, who points to some scandals no one is talking about — including how Jane Harman retained her position as top Dem on the House Intelligence Committee.
I am with Macranger:
This is going to get good. “Democrat Spies on the House Intelligence Committee during a time of war”…..
Foley who?….
I doubt this will get anywhere close to the amount of coverage Foley is still getting (all these weeks later), and the headline written by the MSM will never come close to Macranger’s, but this issue obviously has bigger implications to the safety and security of American citizens than Foley’s instant messages. Especially since Foley is gone, but Harman is still there. Unfortunately, sex scandals, even ones that don’t involve actual sex, provide better material for the late night comics than national security does.
Update: Flopping Aces is connecting the dots.
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Brian,
Of course your going to say that. Your a stupid lying democrat. Exactly which Republicans and how many Brian? Don’t bother I already know your answer. It’s the same as the lies the Rats and their media have been spewing for two weeks now.
The Democrat Party is a “PERPETUAL FRAUD” , one big lie. You support the party of lies irregardless of the facts. That makes you a liar not to mention the democrat/liberal Media standard opperating procedure of telling half truths, white lies and lying by omission.
So by Your rational the repubs let the cat out of the bag to hurt their chances in the election?
Can’t say. You’ll have to find the Republican who let the cat out of the bag to ask him his motivation. But, I guess we don’t go after Republican leakers.
Your a stupid lying democrat. Exactly which Republicans and how many Brian? Don’t bother I already know your answer.
Here’s one. Here’s some more. But I guess you already knew that answer.
You support the party of lies irregardless of the facts. That makes you a liar not to mention the democrat/liberal Media standard opperating procedure of telling half truths, white lies and lying by omission.
Please identify the lies. Please identify the half truths. Please identify the white lies and omissions. Oh, don’t bother, I already know your answer.
“The first Web report of the relatively tame e-mails appears to have prompted someone to share the explicit IM messages. After ABC News obtained those messages, in which Foley discussed sexual acts with the second former page, a scandal mushroomed on Capitol Hill, and Foley resigned.
The source who provided the e-mails that ABC News first reported on its blog, denied sharing the more explicit IMs.”
“The creator of stopsexpreditors.blogspot.com is unknown. An interview request e-mailed to the site was not returned.”
The real scandal is that of the phony outrage of the democrats and the two week long repeating of the same information day after day. With Liberal Media Democrat Hacks pretending to be so stupid or maybe they are just that stupid as to not know the difference between “E-MAILS” and “INSTANT MESSAGES”. You MINORITY SORE LOSERS cry scandal every time the wind blows.
The TRUE SCANDAL “IS” the timing of the Instant Messages , the nonstop coverage of this non-NEWS for two straight weeks 24 hrs a day with plenty of phony democrat outrage while at the same time going to court to make sure that Foleys name remain on the ballot.
So Brian, Supporter of the democrat party whose member actually did rape a 17 year old in the page program after committing the crime of serving alchohol to a minor and not only do not resign , he thumbed his nose at the entire Country and was rewarded with dozens of more years in public. service and given chairmanship in a commitee.And your party’s other criminal queer Barney Franks and his scandal yet he still sits or maybe bends over in office like a good criminal democrat.
“The FBI also is investigating, trying to determine whether any crimes were committed by Foley.”
How about that?
Sorry Brian but a staffer saying it came from a GOP AID DOES NOT MAKE IT FACT!
Try a little more kool-aid.
maybe they are just that stupid as to not know the difference between “E-MAILS” and “INSTANT MESSAGES”.
It’s very clear what the difference is.
E-mails: Provided by a Republican staffer, probably too disgusted to keep quiet any longer.
IMs: Provided by the pages themselves, the day AFTER the e-mail story broke, in direct reaction to seeing the story in the news.
The TRUE SCANDAL “IS” the timing of the Instant Messages
Oh yes, how incredibly suspect that the IMs would come to light the day after a story about the e-mails broke. Why, they must have been sitting on the IM story for several hours!
If there were any other points in your post, I didn’t comprehend any of them.
Sorry Brian but a staffer saying it came from a GOP AID DOES NOT MAKE IT FACT!
LOL! Ignore those public statements! Ignore those news reports! Ignore those Republicans who have not disputed or challenged the reports! From now on, all suppositions are to be vetted by 914’s superior “intuition” before being declared “facts”!
The day after? Nice try , the e-mails were known long before the IM’s were made public. The e-mails weren’t that big a deal months ago until they had more damning stuff to print. By the way , has there been a crime commited in this democrat desparate smoke screen?
The day after?
Yes, the day after.
Nice try , the e-mails were known long before the IM’s were made public.
Well duh, of course they were. The timeline is very clear. What’s your point? No one has claimed otherwise. Nice try.
The e-mails weren’t that big a deal months ago until they had more damning stuff to print.
This is an uncontested and documented fact to the story, but I’ll say it one more time. The IMs were provided to the news media AFTER the e-mail story appeared in the news, by the pages themselves WHO SAW THE REPORT IN THE NEWS. There has never been anyone who claimed otherwise, nor has anyone suggested that the media knew about and sat on the IMs. If you think otherwise, your tinfoil hat is pulled too tight.
Wow Martin, that was by far the most intelligent thing I’ve ever read from a Republican. Let me ask you, do they let the mentally retarded vote? or will you be making popsicle stick art on election day?