your list is missing Schiff
at least. Nunes is the only gang of eight member I trust.\
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/01/obama-expanding-nsa-powers/513041/
Why Is Obama Expanding Surveillance Powers Right Before He Leaves Office?
It could be to prevent Trump from extending them even more.
KAVEH WADDELL
JAN 13, 2017
https://www.aei.org/publication/from-the-gang-of-eight-to-the-gang-of-37/
From ‘The Gang of Eight’ to ‘The Gang of 37’?
Society and Culture
The Los Angeles Times reported on Sunday that the House Intelligence Committee late Thursday approved legislation that would for all intents and purposes eliminate the practice of restricting intelligence briefings to the “Gang of Eight,” a group that includes the party leaders of the House and Senate, as well as the ranking Democrat and Republican on each intelligence committee. The new provision would do away with the existing provision in the intelligence oversight act giving the president the authority to restrict the flow of the most sensitive information to just the senior leadership on the Hill. As a result, the president’s current statutory duty to keep the congressional intelligence committees “fully and currently informed” of U.S. intelligence activities, including any “significant anticipated intelligence activity,” such as a covert action program, would extend to all 15 members of the Senate Intelligence Committee and the 22 members on the House committee without exception.
The change is largely a result of two controversies: First, President Bush’s controversial decision in the wake of the 9/11 attacks to institute the more expansive electronic surveillance program against al Qaeda (the Terrorist Surveillance Program), which bypassed the existing statutory structure for governing such surveillance (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978). Second, his administration’s decision to use advanced interrogation methods (waterboarding, etc.) on a select number of high-value terrorist detainees. Both decisions were briefed to the “Gang of Eight” on several occasions. Once both programs became public, and became front-page news, several members of the “Gang of Eight” complained that they had not been fully informed or that they were in the impossible position of knowing what was going on but not in a position to do anything about it. Other members of the group suggest that they in fact were fully informed and note that there was at the time little, if any, expressed disapproval of the decisions taken by the president.
SSCI= Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
This is the group that Wolfe worked for, and this is the group that all the leaks were coming out of, and this is the group whose members I posted.
If Wolfe was cooperating with someone I assume it would be a senior member of this committee, maybe DiFi, who has been on it as long as he has been employed by them (more than 20 years).
Peter Schiff is a House member, so he wasn't on this Senate committee.
The "Gang of Eight" has the two ranking members from this SSCI committee and the two ranking members from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. (Nunes, the R and Schiff, the D. That makes four. And then the two leaders from each chamber, Majority and Minority.
The Gang of Eight is the group the Executive Branch is supposed to brief on secret spy operations.
They have different information coming in than the SSCI does, and what was being leaked to the press was SSCI specific, which is what eventually led to Wolfe.
It appears that Carter Page complained to the FBI: hey, my testimony is supposed to be secret, but everything that happens there is reported by Brian Ross of ABC the next day. What's up with that?
Possibly the beginning of the end of Mr. Wolfe's little leaking operation.