The irony of the battle over the top secret source is their existence is known because of the Justice Department’s release of a letter revealing an individual was at the center of Nunes’ document request. The agency released a letter it sent on May 3 to Nunes regarding a subpoena for documents related to the source.
“This information was leaked, but it wasn’t by us. We didn’t even have the information yet. It clearly was leaked by someone within the Department of Justice or the FBI, and I believe they hoped they would be able to taint us with that leak,” Utah Rep. Chris Stewart, a Republican on the Intelligence panel, told Fox News on Friday.
Stewart also challenged the premise of the pushback from the Justice Department, Wittes and Comey. He disputed a Snowden-like scenario in which classified information about the source would be leaked to the public.
“This doesn’t have anything to do at all with national security. We certainly would protect that. We would protect the source. We would protect their identity,” Stewart said. “This has to do with them protecting the FBI and some of the actions, again, I don’t know how they can defend it in any way.”
http://amp.dailycaller.com/2018/05/11/comey-nunes-snowden/
Interesting he throws out that comparison.