An aide to a Democratic senator from Maryland is out of a job following the leak of a graphic video that hit Washington DC like a freight train over the weekend.
On Friday evening the rightwing blog Daily Caller published a video appearing to show two men engaged in sexual intercourse which the site reported to have originally been posted in a private group chat among gay men in DC politics. The video (and the sexual act depicted therein) appeared to have taken place in room 216 of the Hart Senate Office Building — a hearing chamber used by the Judiciary Committee that has witnessed debates about Supreme Court justices and other prominent work of the panel.
