Paul Ryan: ‘Wholly Appropriate’ to Ask for the Identity of an FBI Informant

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REPORTER: “Is it appropriate for some of your members to ask for the identity of an F.B.I. informant to be revealed? Doesn’t that put him at risk?”
RYAN: “First of all, that was a classified request. And I do believe, look, knowing this issue, the FISA requests are legitimate oversight requests. So it is wholly appropriate for the document requests that our committees of jurisdiction have made because it has been within the entire scope of the investigation from the get-go. Frankly, I was a little surprised we didn’t get this stuff earlier. So I do think it is appropriate in the context of the legitimate Intelligence Committee investigation that this information be provided to Congress. If it isn’t, then we have a huge gap in our investigation.”