It's more than 8. I think they're all dems except for Warner, and Lawson said right on tv today the names and that they included Warner because he's the chairman, and Rockefeller-a dem but not on the Armed Forces committee. I can't recall why Rockefeller was included but he was, and the response from his office was that since the uncle was writing about a nephew and not his immediate family they could not help him.
But the uncle most definitely said they contacted dems because they would be most sympathetic, they expected, to their plight. Perhaps he was serious (dope) or if he included some interesting info, perhaps the dems had some heads up to formulate a plan on how to use it at some point in the future (we're witnessing possibly that plan). It really depends on what the letter said.