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In reply to the discussion: Members of Congress Denied Access to Basic Information About NSA [View all]Lugal Zaggesi
(366 posts)you might be right - Senator Bob Graham could have spilled the classified information in the actual chambers of the Senate to his colleagues (but he didn't have the actual documents, since they were physically locked away in special rooms) to try to affect the vote. If the Bush Administration didn't go after him for treason, felony, or breach of peace (which they probably would have tried), he might have avoided prison, and merely ended his career, become a persona non grata among colleagues, and probably got kicked off the Board of Graham Companies after the media storm that would have been raised in the post 9/11 Era.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2013/06/senate_intelligence_hints_at_prism_can_members_of_congress_be_tried_for.html
So, if he had the cajones of Bradley Manning or Ed Snowden,
it was probably doable. The avoiding prison part. You're probably right.
He just had to toss his life out the window - hard for multi-millionaires in their 60's (he was 66 in 2002), but certainly possible.