Posted on 09/14/2019 9:57:20 AM PDT by ransomnote
The nation's top intelligence official is illegally withholding a whistleblower complaint, possibly to protect President Donald Trump or senior White House officials, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff alleged Friday.
Schiff issued a subpoena for the complaint, accusing acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire of taking extraordinary steps to withhold the complaint from Congress, even after the intel community's inspector general characterized the complaint as credible and of "urgent concern."
“A Director of National Intelligence has never prevented a properly submitted whistleblower complaint that the [inspector general] determined to be credible and urgent from being provided to the congressional intelligence committees. Never," Schiff said in a statement. "This raises serious concerns about whether White House, Department of Justice or other executive branch officials are trying to prevent a legitimate whistleblower complaint from reaching its intended recipient, the Congress, in order to cover up serious misconduct."
Schiff indicated that he learned the matter involved "potentially privileged communications by persons outside the Intelligence Community," raising the specter that it is "being withheld to protect the President or other Administration officials." In addition, Schiff slammed Maguire for consulting the Justice Department about the whistleblower complaint "even though the statute does not provide you discretion to review, appeal, reverse, or countermand in any way the [inspector general's] independent determination, let alone to involve another entity within the Executive Branch."
"The Committee can only conclude, based on this remarkable confluence of factors, that the serious misconduct at issue involves the President of the United States and/or other senior White House or Administration officials," Schiff wrote in a letter to Maguire on Friday.
The initial whistleblower complaint was filed last month, and Schiff indicated that it was required by law to be shared with Congress nearly two weeks ago. His subpoena requires the information to be turned over by Sept. 17 or else he intends to compel Maguire to appear before Congress in a public hearing on Sept. 19.
Schiff said Maguire declined to confirm or deny whether the whistleblower's complaint relates to anything the Intelligence Committee is currently investigating or whether White House lawyers were involved in the decision-making about the complaint.
Officials in Maguire’s office acknowledged Schiff’s subpoena late Friday.
“We received the HPSCI's subpoena this evening. We are reviewing the request and will respond appropriately,” said a senior intelligence official. “The ODNI and Acting DNI Maguire are committed to fully complying with the law and upholding whistleblower protections and have done so here.”
Since Schiff is a known liar....Any reason to believe him now...?
schiff wants whatever it is so he can leak it..how does he know about it if he was not in on its origination?
Wait until Schiff finds out the whistle blower is talking about the previous White House administration.
Wait until Schiff finds out the whistle blower is talking about the previous White House administration.
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I wonder if they know about the one exposing Obama (and them) so they are rushing their own “whistle blower” story. Then the public would be forced to try to figure out whom to believe, or to believe no one. The Dems would believe the fake one, of course. Or they don’t know....
The "mueller sh.t" stopped itself because there was absolutely nothing to stop. BTW, I love rednecks. Salt of the earth folks.
An old book “None Date Call It Conspiracy” raised the question, what if you had old-money wealthy people, with all their connections, and who were just as sociopathic as Al Capone ?
An old book “None Date Call It Conspiracy” raised the question, what if you had old-money wealthy people, with all their connections, and who were just as sociopathic as Al Capone ?
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Wow....maybe more of a documentary instead of fiction?
Ping
Schiff and company are as useful as a kick stand on a surf board they are useless lot wanting to get the democrats in power.
They make congress just a name not one democrat statesman among them.
Cut from the same mold that Strzok, McCabe, Comey are. Michael Atkinson is a former Justice Department official.
Not sure what you mean about "origination," but the IG for the IC informed Schiff that the compliant exited.
What seems to have happened next is that inspector general Atkinson decided to tell the congressional committees about it himself: he wrote a letter to both the House and Senate Intelligence committees telling them about the whistleblower complaint's existence. It's unclear how many details Atkinson gave, but he evidently did not include the full complaint.
Most certainly. It's a great book. None Dare Call It Conspiracy: Gary Allen (1971)
Another Fake News story out there - It never ends! Virtually anytime I speak on the phone to a foreign leader, I understand that there may be many people listening from various U.S. agencies, not to mention those from the other country itself. No problem!https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/117469652131036364910:47 AM - Sep 19, 2019
....Knowing all of this, is anybody dumb enough to believe that I would say something inappropriate with a foreign leader while on such a potentially "heavily populated" call. I would only do what is right anyway, and only do good for the USA!
Presidential Harassment!https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1174697450948497408
10:51 AM - Sep 19, 2019
The whistleblower is being represented by Andrew P. Bakaj, a former CIA officer and managing partner at the Compass Ross Legal Group, a national security law firm.
Bakaj, who formerly worked as a lawyer in the CIA Office of the Inspector General, declined to comment on his client or the Post’s story. Others familiar with the whistleblower’s complaint, however, confirmed its broad outlines and that it involves the president’s communications.
According to Schiff, Maguire intervened to block the documents from being transmitted to lawmakers, diverting the complaint to the Justice Department and telling the committee that would refuse to share it because it involved someone outside the intelligence community and might involve matters of confidentiality and privilege....
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/19/trump-denies-comment-foreign-leader-whistleblower-1502945
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