South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham wants to see the hammer of justice come down hard on whoever leaked an intelligence report on the United States’ military strikes in Iran, and he has an idea of who it was.
Speaking to Fox News host Jesse Watters on Thursday the senator insinuated that it had to come from a member of the House or Senate on the intelligence committees because of their access to those reports.
“Right now, they are looking for a leaker. So does Congress — how does this work? Now they are looking at Congress. I thought at first it was a Pentagon guy, but now they are saying it could have been a member of Congress. Do they go into a computer and access it, like, how does this work?” the host said to Graham.
“You get the report. You get the initial assessment, members of Congress do on certain committees. We can rule me out as a leaker,” Graham responded sarcastically.
“Crossing you off the list,” Watters quipped.
“I’m not pushing the narrative, this was not a very good strike,” Graham said. This was obliteration by the definition in the dictionary and if you were on the ground …,” he said before Watters interrupted to ask him to explain how it works in Congress with intelligence reports.
“We get information—certain committees do—about the initial Defense Intelligence Agency assessment. Somebody leaked that assessment to suggest that the operation was not what Trump said it was,” the senator said.