Richard Burr's insider trading scandal is a national security risk

An old tale goes something like this. A rich man asks a beautiful woman if she’ll sleep with him for a million dollars. “Sure!” she replies. “How about for a hundred bucks?” he asks. She indignantly responds, “What kind of woman do you think I am?” He answers, “We’ve determined that, madam. We’re just haggling over the price.”

This hoary old chestnut came to mind when news broke that the FBI seized Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr’s cellphone, pursuant to a warrant issued by a judge upon probable cause, in an investigation of Burr allegedly misusing information from a classified Feb. 4 briefing on the coronavirus to dump as much as $1.7 million in stock on Feb. 12.