The whistleblower complaint that has triggered a tense showdown between the U.S. intelligence community and Congress involves President Trump’s communications with a foreign leader, according to two former U.S. officials familiar with the matter.Such complaints are supposed to be disclosed within seven days to the leaders of the congressional intelligence committees, but the Trump administration is stonewalling, again. Probably because their number one duty is to Trump, not the rule of law.
Trump’s interaction with the foreign leader included a “promise” that was regarded as so troubling that it prompted an official in the U.S. intelligence community to file a formal whistleblower complaint with the inspector general for the intelligence community, said the former officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
Trump might as well have everyone swear an oath of fealty to His Awfulness.
This is a developing story, so:
- Stay tuned for future developments; and
- Cue the outrage of the Trumpanzees in 3....2....1....
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The Citizen that filed the report acted in the proper way and went through channels where the report was eventually sent to the shredder or at least deep filed.
If they had chosen to not obey the regulations we would maybe have some action on whatever Donny small hands is Fing up to now.
It sounds like the "keep it quiet folks" won one.
It surely makes me wonder though, what did this traitorous SOB try now?
If we just had a "Free and unfettered Press" like was envisioned.
w3ski
Some reporting specified that the "promise" was made during a phone call. During the specified time period, he was known to have had a phone conversation with Putin.
That, of course, proves nothing.
It is interesting in light of the above reporting, though, that some of the money he is proposing to be redirected from the military to border fence construction included money allocated to help defend Europe from Russian aggression as a part of the US response to Russia annexing Crimea and invading Eastern Ukraine.
At the very least, this administration's habit of responding to unfavorable political news by breaking the law in its efforts to suppress its distribution is not confidence inspiring.
-Doug in Oakland
Gish Galloping of bad acts by this administration.
Need a freaking scorecard to keep up with what has happened, and a bottle of whiskey to prepare for what's next...
I wonder what they heard him say?
And some whataboutism:
"Probably because their number one duty is to Trump, not the rule of law.:
Like Barry's folks didn't stonewall and ignore the law many times during his tenure. They ignored many legal requests for information from congress and the courts and/or stonewalled for months.
See, when you accept that one side does it, you can't complain when the other side does it later.
Unless, of course, one has double standards.
I would like to know exactly what was said, however.
According to WAPO. not Putin but instead Ukraine. Perhaps something to do with the $250 million in military aid Fergus was withholding to try and extort Ukraine into opening a bogus investigation of the Bidens to help his reelection campaign, which current polling has losing to Biden by double digits.
The DoJ has no authority over whistle-blowers in the IC. There is black letter law that protects them and spells out the exact steps to be taken in evaluating the information they provide, that are being followed carefully here.
But the flouting of those protocols pales in comparison to what Fergus' lawyers claimed in court today in an attempt to keep his tax documents hidden:
According to them, a sitting president can not be investigated.
No, not just indicted as per the bogus OLC memo, but investigated.
These fools have to go. They're saying that if Fergus shot someone on 5th Avenue, he couldn't be investigated as a suspect.
Now, his policies have killed way more than just the one victim he's bragged about, but "the law doesn't apply to me" is a different statement in a court filing than it is at a campaign rally, and all of these fuckers have to go, and they have to stay the fuck gone.
No rebranding themselves as independents and slinking away from accountability this time. Burn the fucking lifeboats.
-Doug in Oakland
What is it these folk keep telling us every time there is a mass shooting, why we have the Second Amendment? Something about an out-of-control, tyrannical government?
Unverified, but more data on the whistleblower complaint:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/intelligence-whistleblower-didnt-have-direct-knowledge-of-the-communications
Apparently something to do with Biden's son
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