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The Intelligence Committee’s work often involves access to highly sensitive information, and its members are bound by law to protect classified data from unauthorized disclosure.
The revelations also underscore longstanding partisan disputes over how intelligence and law enforcement powers were used during the 2016 election and its aftermath.
Whether the new disclosures will result in any formal charges remains unclear. For now, the most explosive charge is that the decision to leak classified material was not the act of a rogue staffer,
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