Posted on 10/02/2019 11:49:19 AM PDT by jazusamo
The CIA officer whose whistleblower complaint is at the center of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump consulted with the House Intelligence Committee before filing it, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
The whistleblower initially had a colleague convey his concerns that Trump asked Ukraine's leader to intervene in the 2020 presidential election to the CIA's top lawyer before going to Congress, current and former officials told the Times.
The whistleblower then reportedly changed course and spoke to an Intelligence Committee staff member who suggested that the person hire a lawyer and file a complaint.
The staffer shared part of the whistleblower's concerns with the committee's chairman, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), but did share the person's identity with anyone, according to the Times.
“Like other whistle-blowers have done before and since under Republican and Democratic-controlled committees, the whistle-blower contacted the committee for guidance on how to report possible wrongdoing within the jurisdiction of the intelligence community,” Patrick Boland, a spokesperson for Schiff, told the newspaper.
The development will likely add to Trump's attack that the whistleblower was motivated by partisan interests.
The complaint was eventually released to the public last Thursday.
In the ongoing presser, John Roberts asked Trump about this new Information. Among other things Trump said Schiff helped the whistleblower write it. (Paraphrased)
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fake news reporter pressed trump about biden, trump came back with:
biden and his son are both stone cold crooked, and you know that”
something pretty close to that.
All choreographed
Collusion with the leaker.
Just for clarification, going to the Intel committee staff is an acceptable method for a whistleblower to expose wrongdoing in the intelligence community...which this person is not and did not attempt to do. The staffers should have recognized this as a political/diplomacy issue and not an intelligence issue, and advised accordingly, which of course they also did not. There is no whistleblower here.
Actually...
I think shiff-head IS the whistleblower. I think he had his legal guys write up the complaint.
This guy shiff-head is a traitor to all that America is. He is a treasonous traitorous shiff-headed arse-wipe, and now we discover his ties to Ukranian arms dealers (kinda like hilda-beast gun-running in the middle east). This guy is dirty and needs investigated/tried/executed (within the law, of course).
Seeing old pencil neck on the gallows would be an entertaining end to all this treasonous crap coming from the left.
Trump appointed him but there’s no evidence he changed anything related to this complaint.
If there’s justice, Schiff will be in jail before the election.
Yes
“Nice photo. He was more handsome than the current little Schiff”
A puss leaking Porcupines butt is more attractive than that little dork.
Wasn’t he homeless for a while?
RICO!!!
What????
I want to see pictures of Naked Schiff published with an underage girl. Just a parody.
I think it’s more like”
SHIFF WENT TO HIM.
I have thought that all along.
It still may be that Schiff IS the whistleblower.
He was also a Vee Jay with Much Music too. Lol.
He says he is running
https://noqreport.com/2019/10/01/actor-randy-quaid-run-rep-adam-schiff/
NYT reported this??
THAT’S WHY SCHIFF AND NANCY HAD TO HAVE A ‘SERIOUS’ PRESSER.
NO FOOLING AROUND, INDEED!
LOL!! But please don’t put out false info
Sure looks that way. Pelosi also knew before transcript and complaint were filed. They can either try to bow out of this inquiry and quit while they’re ahead or they are in for a mighty fall. Trump’s presses today show that he and his team are prepared to fight the frivolous impeachment charges.
THAT could be TRUE!!
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