Except the Wall Street Journal says it ain’t so. Last night, it published a piece aimed directly at the Politico exclusive. A key debunking graph from the Wall Street Journal:
The person familiar with the investigation said the FBI came across details of the swimming incident while examining the Israel trip and a trip [New York] Rep. [Michael] Grimm made afterward to Cyprus, but that the swimming incident wasn’t relevant to the probe.
More:
Numerous congressional ethics-law experts interviewed Monday said the FBI does not care if lawmakers swim naked and that the investigation must be a matter under the agency’s jurisdiction. “Last time I checked, skinny dipping anywhere, including a foreign country, is not a federal crime,” said Jan Baran, head of the election law group at Wiley Rein LLP.
Yet the Politico story yielded the clear impression that the swimming was an investigative target.
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