{"id":1690582,"date":"2022-10-15T14:08:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T18:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1690582"},"modified":"2022-10-15T14:08:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T18:08:44","slug":"dem-senator-says-mystery-joggers-gave-him-eerie-national-intelligence-tip-in-early-2000s-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-senator-says-mystery-joggers-gave-him-eerie-national-intelligence-tip-in-early-2000s-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Senator Says Mystery Joggers Gave Him \u2018Eerie\u2019 National Intelligence Tip In Early 2000s"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdem-senator-says-mystery-joggers-gave-him-eerie-national-intelligence-tip-in-early-2000s-3%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1690582&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/patrick-leahy\">Patrick Leahy<\/a> (D-VT) wrote in his recent memoir that as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/u-s-senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate<\/a> debated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/iraq-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">war in Iraq<\/a> in 2002 he was given a tip about security information by two joggers that ended up influencing his vote on the war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Leahy\u2019s claims, first published in his August 2022 memoir \u201cThe Road Taken,\u201d were <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vermontgmg\/status\/1580949214594404352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1580949220575453186%7Ctwgr%5Eca842b2f3072354cf4c1274c8392102912eca217%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediaite.com%2Fpolitics%2Fpatrick-leahy-reveals-he-voted-against-iraq-war-after-visit-from-mysterious-joggers-who-showed-him-intel-proving-bush-wrong%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">highlighted<\/a> Friday by journalist and historian Garrett M. Graff, who said the senator\u2019s claims provided \u201ca rare glimpse into the shadowy way that the intel agencies interact with Members of Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/vermont\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vermont<\/a> senator, who was skeptical of the move toward war in Iraq, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/patrick-leahy-reveals-he-voted-against-iraq-war-after-visit-from-mysterious-joggers-who-showed-him-intel-proving-bush-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in his book that he was contacted by two runners who told him to check specific intelligence briefings while out on a walk with his wife Marcelle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo joggers trailed behind us. They stopped and asked what I thought of the intelligence briefings I\u2019d been getting. Marcelle realized this was a conversation she would normally not be involved in and kept on walking ahead,\u201d Leahy wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said that he was told by the joggers to ask for \u201cFile Eight\u201d and \u201cFile Twelve,\u201d both files which related to intelligence on Iraq.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuickly thereafter, I arranged to see File Eight and it contradicted much of what I had heard from the Bush administration,\u201d Leahy claimed. The Democrat would go on to be on of 21 senators to vote against the authorization of war in Iraq.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He called the alleged encounter with the joggers the most \u201ceerie\u201d experience he had in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was the eeriest conversation I\u2019d ever experienced in Washington. I felt like a sensational version of of Bob Woodward meeting Deep Throat \u2014 only in broad daylight,\u201d he wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Leahy, the third longest-serving U.S. senator of all time, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/top-senate-democrat-patrick-leahy-hospitalized-office-calls-it-a-precaution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">briefly hospitalized<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday after feeling unwell. The 82-year-old was discharged the following day after an overnight stay in the hospital for observation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As Senate president pro tempore, Leahy is third in the line of presidential succession, after Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). He was first elected in 1975, but has been facing health problems in recent years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Leahy is not seeking re-election, having announced in 2021 that he would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/time-to-pass-the-torch-senate-democrat-elected-during-vietnam-war-says-he-wont-seek-re-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retire from the Senate<\/a> in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>His retirement announcement opened up a Senate seat that has stayed Democrat since the Vietnam War, although Democrat Peter Welch was up 35 points over the Republican candidate during the last <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2022\/senate\/vt\/vermont_senate_nolan_vs_welch-7533.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RealClearPolitics<\/a> poll, which was taken in April. Democratic-socialist Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is the other senator from Vermont.<\/p>\n<p><em>Eric Quintanar contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) wrote in his recent memoir that as the Senate debated war in Iraq in 2002 he was given a tip about security information by two joggers that ended up influencing his vote on the war.\u00a0 Leahy\u2019s claims, first published in his August 2022 memoir \u201cThe Road Taken,\u201d were highlighted Friday by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1690582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/dem-senator-says-mystery-joggers-gave-him-eerie-national-intelligence-tip-in-early-2000s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1690582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1690582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1690582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1690582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}