The “whistleblower” will not testify.
Everything will be kept secret.
The Rats will put together a list of allegations and declare them proven.
The Rats will vote to impeach.
The question is: how will the Pub senators react?
The Rats will vote to impeach.
The question is: how will the Pub senators react?
I don’t think that’s a question. Romney and the rest will hold out for a Trump wounding “bipartisan” investigation of the impeachment charges. Senate business will grind to a halt for weeks/months and Trump will join Clinton as an impeached President.
The Republicans, perhaps PDJT, should DEMAND the opportunity to cross examine the whistleblower because they have evidence that Schiff and his staff helped write the complaint.
“The “whistleblower” will not testify. Everything will be kept secret.”
This is the interesting part of this. By releasing information about a communication the president made after he requested a secure line to talk to a foreign leader, the ‘whistleblower’ has violated federal law concerning the release of sensitive information he was not supposed to have heard.
One of the three requirements that determine the realization/discovery of sensitive information, let alone the repeating of it to anyone, and being in the chain that get it released to a public news source, is the term, ‘need to know.” The only people that were in that status were the two presidents, and anyone allowed by the ranking officer at that time, the president. So he was aware of anyone in the room that was privy to the information within the call.
By repeating the information to another individual that didn’t have the need as recognized by the president , he and the people that got the info are in violation of DOd 5200.1, vol 3.
If sensitive info is released to the media, a report is to be generated and it is defined within DoD Manual 5200.01, Volume 3, February 24, 2012, APPENDIX 2 TO ENCLOSURE 6, DOJ MEDIA LEAK QUESTIONNAIRE, page 103.
https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodm/520001_vol3.pdf
COMSEC is defined as the protection resulting from all measures designed to deny unauthorized persons information of value that might be derived from the possession and study of telecommunications and to ensure the authenticity of such communications. COMSEC includes crypto security, mission security, transmission security, and physical security of COMSEC material and information.
Compromise is an unauthorized disclosure of classified information.
Under 18 US CODE 798, Whoever knowingly and willfully communicates, furnishes, transmits, or otherwise makes available to an unauthorized person, or publishes, or uses in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of the United States or for the benefit of any foreign government to the detriment of the United States any classified information concerning the communication intelligence activities of the United States or any foreign government or obtained by the processes of communication intelligence from the communications of any foreign government, knowing the same to have been obtained by such processes, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
So if the whistleblower actually exists, and he told someone about the call from the president to a foreign leader, he is guilty of COMSEC violations. And furthermore, anyone they told that passed the information is guilty of the same.
Sorry about the length, but there is a lot of info to pass. And it isn’t sensitive.
rwood