Adam Kredo/Free Beacon: Top Lawmaker Calls for Investigation into Comey, Obama Aides Including Ben Rhodes, for Intel Leaks

He's also demanding, at long last, a purge of Obama holdovers.

The chairman of the House National Security Subcommittee is calling on the Department of Justice to launch a formal investigation into former FBI Director James Comey's alleged leak of classified information, according to an exclusive interview with the Washington Free Beacon in which the lawmaker also called on the Trump administration to purge all former Obama administration holdovers from government.

Rep. Ron DeSantis (R., Fla.), a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and chair of its National Security subcommittee, is urging Attorney General Jeff Sessions to launch a full scale investigation into Comey's handling of a series of potentially classified memos that were leaked to the press earlier this year.

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DeSantis also called on the Trump administration to purge all former Obama administration officials still working in the government, claiming that the holdovers and their allies outside the White House are responsible for an unprecedented series of national security leaks aimed at damaging the Trump administration's national security apparatus.

DeSantis named Ben Rhodes--the former National Security Council official responsible for creating an in-house "echo chamber" meant to mislead reporters and the public about the landmark nuclear deal with Iran--as a primary source of these leaks and urged the House Intelligence Committee to call Rhodes and other former Obama officials to testify publicly about any role they may be playing in spreading classified information to reporters.spapers."

It's a scandal that the Trump Administration is still filled with cancer cells of Obama holdovers. And I hear blame for that goes to anti-Trump Trump appointees, who would rather keep Obama's people on that permit any Trump people to take those positions.

posted by Ace at 02:49 PM

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