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Burr Stepping Down as Chair of Intelligence Panel Amid Probe

2020-05-15

[BLOOMBERG] Republican Senator Richard Burr is temporarily stepping down as chairman of the Intelligence Committee amid a federal investigation into whether he sold stocks as a result of secret briefings on the threat of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)

coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)

...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
pandemic.

"Senator Burr contacted me this morning to inform me of his decision to step aside as chairman of the Intelligence Committee during the pendency of the investigation," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement. "We agreed that this decision would be in the best interests of the committee and will be effective at the end of the day tomorrow."

Burr, a North Carolina Republican, was among senators who sold holdings earlier this year around the time intelligence officials were delivering closed-door briefings about the emerging threat of the coronavirus. Burr has denied any wrongdoing.

The Los Angeles Times, quoting an unnamed source, reported Wednesday night that FBI agents, acting on a search warrant, took Burr’s phone at his home. The senator’s office declined to comment on the Times report late Wednesday night.

Posted by:Fred

#8 Re former Congressman Mike Rogers, from Wikipedia:

Rogers has a contract to speak on national-security topics on CNN.[citation needed] He is also an executive producer for the CNN program Declassified: Untold Stories of American Spies.

Posted by: trailing wife 2020-05-15 15:44

#7 Little Marco. A ChiCom stooge from the word go.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-05-15 10:36

#6 Senate Majority Whip John Thune said Sen. Marco Rubio was likely to become interim chairman.

Posted by: JohnQC 2020-05-15 10:19

#5 /\ Well yes, I do seem to remember something about a shadowy UK contracting outfit with intelligence community connections..... or was that from last week ?

Posted by: Besoeker 2020-05-15 08:16

#4 ^ Ask his wife

Posted by: Frank G 2020-05-15 08:08

#3 Following the Benghazi klusterphuk, former Congressman Mike Rogers left his lofty HPSCI post suddenly as well.

He never writes, he never calls, no one in the media appears concerned.

Posted by: Besoeker 2020-05-15 08:01

#2 The burr's out of the saddle. Smooth riding again

Posted by: Lex 2020-05-15 07:36

#1 Like the boardroom scene in Rising Sun "They're distancing themselves..."

Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-05-15 07:33

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