Senate aide pleads guilty to lying to FBI

And may get off with no jail time. Forget the plea bargain and PROSECUTE him to the full extent of the law. He was head of the Senate Intelligence security!!!!! There needs to be an example made and this needs to be it. Unless he had some great proffer and is going to disclose other crimes and give evidence to other crimes then NO PLEA BARGAIN.

Drain the swamp

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Senate intelligence committee employee pleaded guilty Monday to lying to the FBI about contact he had with a reporter.

James Wolfe, the longtime director of security for the committee — one of multiple congressional panels investigating potential ties between Russia and the Trump campaign — pleaded guilty to a single charge in the three-count indictment against him......

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Though Wolfe was never charged with disclosing classified information, prosecutors alleged that he was in regular contact with multiple journalists who covered the committee, in violation of Senate rules. He also maintained a yearslong personal relationship with one reporter, a relationship prosecutors say he lied about until being confronted with a photograph of him and the journalist.

As part of his plea agreement, prosecutors will seek to dismiss the remaining charges at his sentencing in December. Wolfe, of Ellicott City, Maryland, will likely face a maximum of six months behind bars, according to a plea agreement. But he could also get no prison time....
https://www.yahoo.com/news/senate-aide-pleads-guilty-lying-fbi-194432826--politics.html

 

Liberals sure got quiet. No Russia ... No FBI ... No leaks, lies or GOP witch hunts. So much emerging in October and no one talking about it at all. No Baker, McCabe, Comey, Ohr, Rosenstein, Simpson or Mueller. Pocahontas is 1/512 native American? Sure is quiet.

 

We appear to have different standards for different people

 

The silence is deafening once again.

 

The MSM seem to have figured out that their blue wave is washing out, and suddenly, all of their investments in the execution of that strategy are becoming public knowledge now. All of the obsequious infiltration of organizations is unwinding right before our very eyes, and suddenly, in what must be panic, these organizations are remaining silent. Now? And isn't that amazing.

Let's recount a little. Russia, demonstrates active collusion between both the DNC/HRC campaign and foreign intelligence operatives, active collusion via the distribution of said in the MSM, collusion between the DNC/HRC campaign and the intelligence services of this country, facilitating opening active counter intel ops against a presidential opposition candidate. We have active leaking in violation of the law between infiltrators and the MSM creating national security problems, and now this.

The entire fabric of liberal/progressive power in the nation laid bare for all to see. All premised on insider information trading, massive abuse of power, and purposeful fabrication of facts in an effort to retain their power.

That the MSM have fallen silent now? Remarkable.

 

Of course they are silent.They played and still play integral part in an attempt to undermine the current administration and ruin the president Trump personally.Seriously,in any normal country the heads would be rolling so to speak.Some journalists also deserve to be behind the bars.They"ve been plotting for quite sometime how to overthrow the legitimate president of the USA.It's not a minor crime,it's a high crime.

 

Ive seen Obama tipyy toeing around the US, careful not to preannounce his appearances, you know, on the off chance he needs to get somewhere without extradition again..

 

The criminal justice system revolves around plea bargains. There aren't enough assets to try every crime and plea bargains are a convenience for prosecutors. Your indignation about it won't change anything.

 

That's fine for petty crimes and misdemeanors. I think this is a little more serious with lots more ramifications at the highest levels of the government.

 

I view lying to the FBI as a petty crime. Government lies to the public with impunity.

 

I assure you it is not and then there is the leaking of confidential congressional information concerning a private citizen.

And example needs to be made to ALL congressional staffers and other government employees that we will not stand for this activity.

Of course there is a chance they may be flipping him but usually that is announced in the plea deal that he will be cooperating in other investigations. We'll see.

 

I've gotten not one reply (#2) contradicting the noticeable absence of discussion or even mention of liberals once favorite topics. Just rumors of indictments used to light up this forum daily. The despair is palpable.

 

The next few years could be very interesting in terms of Democrats getting indicted and sent to prison.

 

BFD....

SNIP
Wolfe was never charged with mishandling classified information or leaking to the press, but investigators alleged that he lied to them about his relationships with reporters.
ENDSNIP

People are supposed to be up in arms over this??? Get real, bucko...

 

I would agree. Unfortunatley estimates put plea deals to about 90-95% of the settled cases in US State and Federal Courts. It's kind of ridiculous.

That said, this guy should have had the book thrown at him due to the fact that his position warrants more care and attention considering the scope of information he is privy too.

 

He won't be allowed to own firearms. He can't work for the federal govt again. He lost all his retirement. He was a tool for the left. He will go to prison. Good for him.

 

That is how it works.

 

I will agree as soon as you figure out how to stop government from lying to the public.

 

So its OK to lie to the FBI, no BFD. Its also OK to leak confidential information about an investigation into a private citizen by the head of security of the Senate Intellegence Committee , which is supposed to prevent such leaks, to the press in order to try and remove a President and his administration.

 

"Director of Security"? Why is the title always the opposite of who they really are?

 

Seems like his lawyers sure think it is.

"James Wolfe appeared in federal court in Washington on Monday and pleaded guilty to a single charge in the three-count indictment against him.

Prosecutors had said Wolfe told a reporter in October 2017 that he had served someone with a subpoena involving the potential ties between Russia and the Trump campaign and later lied to FBI agents about the exchange. He admitted he didn't tell agents the truth.

Wolfe was the longtime director of security for the Senate committee.

He wasn't accused of leaking any classified information.

His lawyers said in a statement that their client "accepted responsibility for his actions."

Wolfe faces up to five years in prison when he is sentenced Dec. 20.

Why even try to deflect this? It is an open and admitted lie. The bigger problem, is that more and more things with the Russia investigations are turning out to be false.

 

Not deflecting.... guy committed a crime and will do the time, although I suspect he'll get a tiny slice for a reasonably small lie... However, if he gets more than Coffee Boy's 14 days, whose lying in Jan 2017 potentially impacted the FBI from getting hold of a valuable witness in an active investigation, I'll be a little ticked off..

But I don't think this is going to be a moment where everybody goes in 20 years "Hey Dad, where were YOU when the Senate aide pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI"??

Typical Bluesguy post.... mountain out of a molehill...

 

Lying to the FBI is an interesting charge. As far as I know, there are no state laws that make it a crime to lie to law enforcement officers of their state, cities, or counties. Before I retired from police work, people lied to me almost every day.

 

Well one way to put a dent in it would be to enforce the laws to the fullest extend. Are you saying since we cannot stop all we should stop none. And this guy didn't lie to the public he lied to federal law enforcement.

Do you believe we should drop the charges against Flynn since we can't stop all government lying?

 

THAT to me is what makes it even more egregious, this wasn't just some clerk in a Senators office who saw a piece of paper, THIS was the guy who was supposed to be STOPPING LEAKS and he was the leaker.