An "if" that didn't cross my mind. Is it even possible that this happened?

[MelissaB]

Could someone on the house committee have passed Sergei Skripal's name to someone on Trump's team? They passed other info, but this?

Link to tweet

If this man’s name was passed from HPSCI members/staffers to tRUmp’s legal team, and later to the Russians, then they all, including Nunes & co, just opened themselves up to execution for espionage.

Link to tweet

Poisoned Russian spy Sergei Skripal was close to Christopher Steele who was linked to the #TrumpRussia dossier

[Lindsay]

1. The Russians knew all about Skripal.

He was a Russian military intelligence officer who was a double agent working for the Brits.

Unless I totally misunderstanding your question?

[MelissaB]

3. My question is: Could/did someone on the house committee have passed this man's name on to

WH? Devin and others have passed on other info, but did they give someone his name as being involved in collecting info that appeared in the Dossier?

[shraby]

5. Nunes is in deep. When leaking info results in a person's death, that doesn't bode well for

the leaker.

[2left4u]

14. Im with you

Im with you on that path. It isn't like the GOP doesn't have a well documented history of outing agents...remember what they did to the CIA years ago?

[ramblin_dave]

7. Putin will have broken a huge rule of the spy game if he was behind the poisoning of Sergei Skripal

http://www.businessinsider.com/sergei-skripal-poisoning-russia-spy-swap-deals-at-risk-2018-3

[TalenaGor]

2. oooooooooooohhhhhh ya that's rough damn

How are they all keeping the little bit of cool they seem to be keeping? Jfc the craps getting deeper by the minute.....

[beachbum bob]

4. good trump knew his name as he and obama had gotten breifings from FBI and all the

documents...but really, who cares on the republican side at this point? They hold all the power in congress at this moment

[Maraya1969]

20. I think the point is that the poisoned guy was a double agent working for

England or/and us. Putin may not have known that until Devin Nunes or another member of the House Intelligence committee leaked the information to Trump who gave it to Putin. Hence they are responsible for the attack

Something like that.

[RandomAccess]

6. OMG - definitely scarey

on several different levels.

"Execution for espionage"?????? Whew. Heavy.

[BigmanPigman]

8. I'm worried for Steele again. Putin is acting out of character

as far as timing goes. Elections are coming up in Russia and the last time he poisoned someone like this he got reprimanded by other countries and attention was drawn to him in a negative light. Pundits have been saying this and it seems like careless timing/planning to me too.

[Generic Brad]

13. He won't get reprimanded by the United States at the present time

If anything, Trump will applaud him and then state again that we have done far worse.

[BigmanPigman]

15. The US won't but England will and so will European allies

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like last time. Putin won't care much, but the citizens might. They are threatening their citizens and admitting to the poisoning..... Here is an earlier post.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2007584
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=10331293

By BBC Monitoring
The world through its media

2 hours ago

For days, Russia's main national TV channels were practically silent on the attempt to kill former spy Sergei Skripal with a nerve agent, but this changed in Wednesday's main evening bulletins.

The comment by Kirill Kleimenov - the presenter on government-controlled Channel One's flagship Vremya news programme - sounded like a veiled, mocking threat to anyone considering becoming a double agent for Britain.

"I don't wish death on anyone, but for purely educational purposes, I have a warning for anyone who dreams of such a career," he said.

"The profession of a traitor is one of the most dangerous in the world," Kleimenov said, adding that few who had chosen it had lived to a ripe old age.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43330498

[bucolic_frolic]

9. We can hope

This whole scandal is starting to read like the stock market. No matter what you think can't happen, happens.

In the market that's how the big players make their money, manipulating the crowds. I don't think it's a lot different in politics, especially crooked politics.

Outing an asset? To keep the information quiet? It would be a tactic of zealots who care only for all the zealotry they can muster. You know that's how they think and operate. Would they do it? DID they do it? Dunno. You asked the question.

[SCantiGOP]

10. Execution? Not quite

Constitution allows for death penalty when giving aid to enemy in time of war, not in times of political campaigns.

[BumRushDaShow]

16. You are describing the issue of "treason"

This case, like that of the Rosenbergs and what the tweet is asserting, was execution for espionage. Of course since the Rosenbergs' execution, no spies have been executed - just sent to prison (see numerous folks including Jonathan Pollard, who was released recently on restrictive parole after a plea agreement life sentence).

[poboy2]

18. Are you suggesting a layman not go here?

You may or may not be correct in legalese, but as a matter of message wars, you are most certainly wrong.

[SCantiGOP]

19. I don't really care to know what a "message war" is

if you define it as something that 'may or may not be correct.'

[poboy2]

11. I like where this is going...

'then they all, including Nunes & co, just opened themselves up to execution for espionage.'

[ffr]

12. I think I heard Fox News just say that it's too early to talk about nerve agent killings.

But that they send their thoughts and prayers.

[Leghorn21]

17. Didnt TASS tell us that some classified info was passed along on THIS fateful day?

...any and every thing is possible with this criminal cabal...

Oy