Clapper, Feinstein Ask For Leniency For Senate Staffer Implicated In Leaking Probe
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Former Obama Director of National Intelligence James Clapper wrote a letter asking for leniency for the Senate Intelligence Committees former security director who pleaded guilty to lying to investigators about his contact with a reporter.
James Wolfe lied to FBI agents in a December 2017 interview in connection with the FBIs probe of leaks of information regarding the activities of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to various reporters, his lawyer wrote. It is a decision, along with his breaking his marital vows and violating his former employers rules regarding contacts with the media, that he deeply regrets.
Clapper submitted a handwritten letter to the judge supporting Wolfe, saying knowing Jim as I do, I know this whole experience and its exposure in the media has been very traumatic for him already. I would hope the court would consider his long and faithful service, as well as what he has endured so far in sentencing and would recommend minimal confinement.
Republican intelligence committee chairman Richard Burr and with Democratic ranking member Dianne Feinstein also wrote to seek leniency in the sentencing of Mr. James Wolfe
we do not seek to diminish the seriousness of the allegations against Jim, nor diminish the significance of misleading federal agents
but we ask that the totality of his service and career be taken into consideration.
The sentencing documents were first reported by BuzzFeed News, which once employed Ali Watkins, a reporter with whom Wolfe had a relationship.
Separately, Feinsteins driver was outed as a Chinese spy, something she quietly swept under the rug.
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