I’d like to see his employment application. I can understand that a person of bad character would gather information that could be used for blackmail. What I can’t understand is how he seemed to have free rein immediately.
Congress acts as if it were completely independent of the WH, and the only ones that I think of as supportive of that type of information transfer OUT of the US TO Pakistan is VJ and Huma. I can’t see people in Congress seeing any advantage to that. They all act out of their own self interest. So what was their self interest in letting Awan loose?
I think only a handful of Dems were in on the original Awan spying plot. People like Wasserman-Schultz. Once they got busted, the rest of them saw it as pure politics. That type of thing would damage the Democrat brand, you see. So, rather than do the American thing, they did the Democrat thing and pushed it under the rug to save the party.
That's just how Democrats get down.
In addition to bags’ comment about rats “protecting their brand”, I’d contend that most, particularly over the past ten to fifteen years, are so tightly organized and controlled that they operate in absolute lockstep.
Montana’s very own John Tester has been described as having a Hot Line to the Senate’s Top rat office so he can be told what color and style underwear he’s to wear each day. And I really doubt that JohnBoy’s the only person in DC to whom that statement applies.
I won’t end that with /jk because I (along with a lot of folks I know around here) say that very, very seriously.