Martin Pengelly in New YorkTwo US Democrat politcians have written to House speaker Kevin McCarthy demanding that he deny New York congressman George Santos any opportunity to access classified information because he might be a “significant risk” to US national security.
Mr Morelle and Mr Meeks said “numerous concerning allegations” about Mr Santos’s “behaviour over decades put his character into question and suggest he cannot be trusted with confidential and classified information that could threaten the United States’ national security”.
The scandal has grown so bizarre and labyrinthine that when asked to discuss precedents, the Princeton historian Sean Wilentz said it would be better to look to literature, whether The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville or to the “kind of nothing man that drips all through the novels” of John Le Carré.
He also said Mr Santos claimed to be a model who “worked at New York Fashion Week and that he met all the Victoria’s Secret models and would be in Vogue magazine”.
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