Posted on 09/30/2019 1:45:11 PM PDT by Olog-hai
There is a determined process for this that was not followed.
The employee submits the complaint to the inspector general of the intelligence community. The inspector general is required to review it within 14 days and then determines whether the complaint is of “urgent concern.” If the complaint appears credible, the inspector general is required to forward it to the director of national intelligence, who then has seven days to send the complaint and any accompanying information to congressional intelligence oversight committees.
If the inspector general decides it’s not credible, or if he or she does not act on the complaint, the whistleblower can contact the congressional intelligence committees directly but must tell the inspector general and seek guidance from the director of national intelligence to contact the committees securely.
When this thing was delivered to acting director of national intelligence Joseph Maguire, he refused to share the complaint with congressional intelligence committees, even after receiving a subpoena, claiming that the law did not require him to do so. And he’s right. At this point it is still a question of being creditable of which Maguire and the DOJ are the determining force. So, the house overstepped its authority with the subpoena and the demand.
In this case, as the determining group within the justice department has not decided this is a creditable scenario, then congress by demanding they receive the whistleblower report has removed the doubt that this is not a creditable case for impeachment by their determination which can’t happen until the report is provided. Judge, jury, executioner. And as they are not an investigating body without evidence, they cannot make that determination. They still have to go back to the DOJ to accomplish that task which the DOJ by their actions said is not worthy of it.
rwood
Not the “entire senate,” just the gutsy Majority Leader, Trent Lott.
Couldn’t believe Trent did that, but it never got to a senate vote, to the best of my recollection.
If I am wrong, I apologize, but I remember being furious with Trent. Unlike President Trump, Clinton had committed a felony.
Yup. Since the House is basing the impeachment quest on the phone call to Ukraine, POTUS will have only one field to cover. In his defense, Trump would be forced to declassify obama phone conversations with Russia and Iran and demonstrate the topics were less potent than those of his predecessor.
-PJ
Someone who can get in there should tell McConnell that if the Senate Trial lasts longer than it takes to put the matter to a vote, that he needs to put his doctor on the quest to find a compatible nut donor.
You’d rather let the charge sit than do a fast acquittal?
As long as they acquit.
I was concerned about a trial dragging on and on through the election.
But fast acquittal sounds good.
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