{"id":35007,"date":"2018-12-22T10:46:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T15:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35007"},"modified":"2018-12-22T10:46:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T15:46:38","slug":"who-is-james-wolfe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35007","title":{"rendered":"Who Is James Wolfe?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who is James Wolfe, and why does it matter? On Thursday, American Greatness<\/a> posted an article about James Wolfe, a former staff employee of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI).<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Late Thursday, a federal judge sentenced<\/a> Wolfe to two months in jail for one count of lying to the FBI; the prosecution had asked for 24 months. After a tearful apology to the judge, Wolfe essentially escaped with a slap on the wrist. Outrageous.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wolfe, 58, was a key player in the leaking strategy employed by anti-Trump bureaucrats to seed bogus Trump-Russia collusion stories in the news media during the administration\u2019s early months. Entrusted with safekeeping the committee\u2019s most secret documents, Wolfe was caught<\/a> passing off the information to four reporters. One of the journalists, Ali Watkins, was at least 30 years his junior; their three-year affair began when she was a college intern working for a Washington, D.C. news organization.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The first lesson here is don’t let your daughters be interns in Washington–there are a lot of older men walking around with evil intentions. The second lesson is more serious. James Wolfe was leaking classified information to newspapers with the intention of discrediting the Trump administration. He then lied about his actions when caught. He is looking at two months in jail. General Flynn has agreed to a plea of lying to investigators. He has lost his house, been financially ruined, etc. I realize that there is probably much more to that case than the public is aware of, but it seems to me that General Flynn’s actual crime was agreeing to be part of the Trump administration. His treatment by those in the ‘deep state’ was meant to send a message to anyone who was willing to be part of the Trump administration. The Mafia has been known to use similar tactics.<\/p>\n

The article continues:<\/p>\n

When confronted by the FBI about the affair and the disclosure of classified information to the other reporters, Wolfe repeatedly lied both during a personal interview and on a questionnaire. The investigation into Wolfe\u2019s activities was so critical and risky that \u201cthe FBI\u2019s executive leadership took the extraordinary step of limiting its notification to two individuals\u2014the Chair and Vice Chair of the [committee]. Had this delicate balance not been achieved, this situation could easily have resulted in the possible disruption of information flow\u2014an untenable degradation of national security oversight.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sounds a little bit more consequential than a phone conversation<\/a> about Russian sanctions, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n

But here is the real injustice: While it was clear by both the original indictment and the sentencing memo that Wolfe was responsible for disclosing details about the FISA warrant on Trump campaign aide Carter Page, he was not charged with that crime\u2014a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The investigation into Wolfe began after the Washington Post<\/i> published an explosive story<\/a> in April 2017 confirming that the FBI had obtained a FISA order right before the election to spy on Page.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThere was probable cause to believe Page was acting as an agent of a foreign power, in this case Russia,\u201d the Post<\/i> reported. \u201cThis is the clearest evidence so far that the FBI had reason to believe during the 2016 presidential campaign that a Trump associate was in touch with Russian agents. Such contacts are now at the center of an investigation into whether the campaign coordinated with the Russian government to swing the election in Trump\u2019s favor.\u201d The information was given to the reporters \u201con the condition of anonymity because [the sources] were not authorized to discuss details of a counterintelligence probe.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

James Wolfe belongs in prison for much longer than two months. Until we have equal justice under the law, we will not have our republic. The press is supposed to be holding elected officials and other bureaucrats accountable–not putting their thumb on the scales of justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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