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Whistleblower complaint accuses Trump administration of pattern of obfuscation: report
The Hill ^ | 09/26/19 | Justin Wise

Posted on 09/26/2019 5:47:15 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

The whistleblower complaint at the center of a brewing controversy involving President Trump reportedly focuses largely on his contact with Ukrainian officials and alleges a pattern of obfuscation within the White House.

The Washington Post, citing a person who has read the complaint and spoke on the condition of anonymity, reported early Thursday that the documents are mainly focused on a July 25 phone call in which Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, over allegations of corruption.

It also accuses Trump and his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, of a broad effort to influence Ukrainian officials over time.

In addition, the complaint alleges that White House officials moved records of some of Trump's contacts with foreign officials onto a separate computer network from which they're usually held, the source told the Post.

The whistleblower reportedly wrote in the complaint that officials did this after Trump's phone call with Zelensky. The source told The Post that the detail provoked the intelligence community inspector general to call for the White House to retain the records of the leaders' conversation.

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"pattern of obfuscation"

Meaning, 'we can't give you specifics but we feel something is wrong'.

1 posted on 09/26/2019 5:47:15 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Justin Wise should be dancing at the end of a rope.


2 posted on 09/26/2019 5:51:07 AM PDT by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We CHOSE Trump.)
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I'll trade them for 30,000 missing emails, a server deliberately withheld from the FBI by Crowdstrike, and cell phones smashed with hammers.

The "whistleblower," the Dems, and reporters should be imprisoned or executed for sedition.

3 posted on 09/26/2019 5:51:44 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Trump would be in prison.

But it’s not like millions of us descended on DC with guns demanding a return to a real republic.

So here is where we are.

I didn’t want to make the trip. It’s comfortable at home.

But it makes it hard to cry too much.


4 posted on 09/26/2019 5:56:58 AM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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The source told The Post that the detail provoked the intelligence community inspector general to call for the White House to retain the records of the leaders’ conversation.

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What exactly gives the IG the authority to instruct the White House to do anything?


5 posted on 09/26/2019 5:58:08 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: grey_whiskers

Agreed. This politico needs to be imprisoned for fraud as does the cabal behind Christine Blasey Ford and all the FBI coup members. The lack of accountability for all these people is breeding more of the same.


6 posted on 09/26/2019 5:59:53 AM PDT by ilgipper (The mob only destroys. Never creates.)
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To: yesthatjallen

The pathetic is strong in this one.


7 posted on 09/26/2019 6:00:26 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: grey_whiskers

Fox reporting that the whistleblower’s complaint contradicts transcript previously released with it saying there was a direct quid pro quo that was eliminated from the final transcipt and the “true” transcript has been placed on a separate classified computer.


8 posted on 09/26/2019 6:01:28 AM PDT by CedarDave (Google has blacklisted Free Republic in its search engine. Use duckduckgo for searching.)
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To: yesthatjallen

It’s pure projection. Obfuscation is one of the adjectives I would regularly use when discussing the Obama admin.


9 posted on 09/26/2019 6:01:53 AM PDT by jurroppi1 (The Left doesn't have ideas, it has cliches. H/T Flick Lives)
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“In addition, the complaint alleges that White House officials moved records of some of Trump’s contacts with foreign officials onto a separate computer network from which they’re usually held, the source told the Post.”

If true, it indicates that the President doesn’t believe the regular server is secure from leaks, so he decided to follow the law but add an additional layer of security.


10 posted on 09/26/2019 6:02:46 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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Like a classified computer in Hillary’s bathroom closet?


11 posted on 09/26/2019 6:02:58 AM PDT by pnz1 (#IMNOTWITHHER)
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...I see. A separate classified computer in the Ukraine owned by Crowdstrike, or in a bathroom in Colorado?


12 posted on 09/26/2019 6:03:23 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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“In addition, the complaint alleges that White House officials moved records of some of Trump’s contacts with foreign officials onto a separate computer network from which they’re usually held, the source told the Post.”

Thus the President closed off one *more* source of leaks and innuendo.

F.E.T.E. as the anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler would put it.

13 posted on 09/26/2019 6:04:29 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Deepstate translation: “We can’t run interference for Biden’s corruption in Ukraine if you hide your attempts to have it get exposed”.

How bad is it that the leading nominee for President of the United States isn’t being rolled completely under a swell of controversy of actually abusing the power of his office for personal (family) gain?

But Trump, merely asking for corruption to be investigated as being constricted loosely as for political gain is now suddenly an impeachable offense, even though just about all diplomacy that Trump executes is good for him politically by proxy of being good for the country.

So let me just ask you this. How is it bad for the country to expose political corruption?

The only time its bad is when you want to PROTECT A CORRUPT POLITICIAN(biden).

This is one twisted twisted twisted world we are living in.


14 posted on 09/26/2019 6:07:43 AM PDT by z3n
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...saying there was a direct quid pro quo that was eliminated from the final transcript...

Yeah, sure it was.

15 posted on 09/26/2019 6:11:39 AM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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In addition, the complaint alleges that White House officials moved records of some of Trump's contacts with foreign officials onto a separate computer network from which they're usually held, the source told the Post.

If true, who can blame the Trump admin? If I had clymers like this all around me, you can damn well bet I'd move things where they couldn't get to them, too.

They still haven't learned that this isn't the W administration where standing there and taking abuse after abuse with no defense was the order of the day. This President not only fights back, he plays offense. When he's done with them, they're going to wish they had just let him do what he wanted and wait out his two terms rather than make an enemy of a man who is good at and enjoys winning, and isn't shy about beating his adversaries to a pulp in order to do it.

16 posted on 09/26/2019 6:12:08 AM PDT by Dahoser
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I would see this conversation with Ukraine as Trump tackling any future interference in the upcoming election. I’d think the dems would be happy about that.


17 posted on 09/26/2019 6:18:16 AM PDT by lilypad
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I would see this conversation with Ukraine as Trump tackling any future interference in the upcoming election. I’d think the dems would be happy about that.


18 posted on 09/26/2019 6:19:43 AM PDT by lilypad
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To: yesthatjallen

Of course this pattern of obfuscation only happens when a Republican is president. They said this about Bush 1 & 2, Reagan, Nixon, Eisenhower and even Hoover, Coolidge and Harding.

The drivebys will ignore the straight up obfuscation that happened under FDR, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Clinton and Obama.

100 years of this crap.


19 posted on 09/26/2019 6:36:30 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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everyone knows a “pattern of obfuscation” is an impeachable offense.

it is right there in the constitution.


20 posted on 09/26/2019 6:43:16 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Epstein proves it's all a charade.)
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