Posted on 10/01/2019 8:25:40 AM PDT by Cboldt
Oct 01, 2019
Butler County, Iowa - Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) made the following comments regarding the intelligence community whistleblower and related issues.
"This person appears to have followed the whistleblower protection laws and ought to be heard out and protected. We should always work to respect whistleblowers' requests for confidentiality. Any further media reports on the whistleblower's identity don't serve the public interest--even if the conflict sells more papers or attracts clicks.
"No one should be making judgments or pronouncements without hearing from the whistleblower first and carefully following up on the facts. Uninformed speculation wielded by politicians or media commentators as a partisan weapon is counterproductive and doesn't serve the country.
"When it comes to whether someone qualifies as a whistleblower, the distinctions being drawn between first- and second-hand knowledge aren't legal ones. It's just not part of whistleblower protection law or any agency policy. Complaints based on second-hand information should not be rejected out of hand, but they do require additional leg work to get at the facts and evaluate the claim's credibility.
"As I said last week, inquiries that put impeachment first and facts last don't weigh very credibly. Folks just ought to be responsible with their words."
Grassley is the chairman and co-founder of the Senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus and has authored and co-authored many of the nation's whistleblower protection laws.
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Excellent summation.
The identity of the “Whistleblower” is known by the Dems and will be outed in a week or so by the Dems. They will blame this on Trump. The Democrats need the “Whistleblower” to make the rounds on the left wing media shows.
Add another stanza to the articles of impeachment.
The GOP isn't serious about fighting this. The longer it drags on, the better for them (DEMs hoisting themselves) and, they hope, the worse for Trump.
Weak and pathetic https://t.co/xSnlCjMmGU— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) October 1, 2019
Given his vociferous rhetoric, I expected Donald Trump to fire 100% of Federal Attorneys on Day one - as William Clinton did in 1993.
When Trump did not do so, I foresaw essentially what we have seen: a slow-motion bloodless coup. Four days later, after the trap against Flynn was spring, I knew I had been right.
I figured out decades ago that the public sector attracted centralized-government leftists - not matter what their nominal party affiliation was.
I knew Trump needed to go outside the Swamp for fresh patriotic blood. Instead, he decided to do Art of the Deal with Reince Priebus, et al. We are living with the result.
Day one = Day One. spring = sprung.
Complicit GOPe.
Right
And i'm still not sure Schitt has someone lined up yet to play the role of whistleblower.
Big question is whether Grassley ran his statement by the Majority Leader before releasing it to the media.
The answer could be a harbinger of how a Senate Impeachment trial would be conducted.
I doubt it. Grassley routinely puts out press announcements on a bvariety of subjects. It's his way of "tooting his horn." Some of the releases are quite informative. He's been onto the Russian hoax for years.
News Releases | Chuck Grassley <- I have this bookmarked
Start of this video talks about Grassley: https://youtu.be/zX19vFaDgbI
— Start of this video talks about Grassley: https://youtu.be/zX19vFaDgbI —
Great link and interview. Thank you.
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