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House Intel Chairman Schiff accuses top Trump official of illegally withholding 'urgent' whistleblower complaint, possibly to protect Trump
- Thread starter chadskin
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He could punch him in the fucking face since nobody's being punished for anything anymore.
Inherent contempt. No courts needed. Fine them up to $25,000 a day to start. If still obstruction, the House can jail them themselves, again no courts needed.
Hasn't been used in 85 years, but we're beyond unprecedented times right now, so the only question is if the Dems are allowed to MEET the escalation.
It just happened and a quick scan shows multiple outlets covering it.
Nonsense. The other democrats would force him to resign immediately, before sending a stern letter of condemnation of the acting director's contempt.
Good to know. Thanks!
I didn't see it on a few sites I visited but I'm glad to hear it's getting out there.
Acting DNI to testify before Congress on September 26
Cant wait for him to show up and say nothing while Republicans kiss his ass
Uh... So the ICIG is only going to testify in a closed session, and the Acting DNI is only going to testify in an open session? Why not open/closed for both? Acting DNI only doing an open session seems super shady to me...
Very suspect he agreed to this after saying he wouldn't a couple of days ago.
The whistle blower report is not meant to be public, they are probably going to get the meat of the complaint directly from that person and that person is not on the hot seat for why its being denied to them, the ICIG person was following protocols. Meanwhile the acting DNI went out of his way to block the report seemingly from something outside of his department, there is nothing for them to gain from him in closed session if they end up getting a decent amount from the ICIG session outside of putting the fucker on the spot for his behavior publicly.
So if all of the important information is going to be in the ICIG's testimony, is there really a point to the Acting DNI publicly testifying when he'll just pull a Barr PR stunt to make Trump look good? I mean, we've seen this movie before, so will anything worthwhile really come out the Acting DNI's testimony? If I were Schiff, I'd be close to not even bothering with it.
Probably was told to claim executive privilege over and over while committee members whine about it.
WaPo reports "complaint centers on Trump's communications with a foreign leader and a 'promise' he made"
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It's sad that I was about to sarcastically say "GEE I WONDER WHICH FOREIGN LEADER", but realized it's now a legitimate question
Wanna say Putin for the lulz but this could be Kim Jong also.
Could be Saudi Arabia and/or Israel. Ties in with Kushner's main activities as well. And heavily factors into 2016 too. And like with Russia, Trump's past and present in many aspects of his business.
"Schiff has demanded full disclosure of the whistleblower complaint. Maguire has defended his refusal by asserting that the subject of the complaint is beyond his jurisdiction"
I doubt we ever find out what this was, there is no way the system is going to allow an intelligence officer go over the President.
I doubt we ever find out what this was, there is no way the system is going to allow an intelligence officer go over the President.
Yup, we are never going to know the details and people will have forgotten already in 5 odd days.
I've already emailed my reps. I plan on calling them tomorrow. I suggest we all do the same.
Trump recently moved the money out of the protect-Europe-from-Russia fund and into the "wall" fund. Could be related to that.
There are a lot of possibilities and this is certainly one of them.
Possibly, but my only issue with that theory is that the treason there seems...casual. Too casual for a whistleblower piece not to just be buried with the rest of the 3 years of counter-intelligence/grand jury material. Would it be because it's the only thing they might have on tape (in this potential scenario)?