The acting director of national intelligence didn’t consider the whistleblower’s complaint that’s led to an impeachment inquiry to be an election security matter — but rather one concerning “a conversation by the President with another foreign leader.”
He’s going to need to see a chiropractor to work himself out of this pretzel from all the bending and manipulation.
I spy with my little eye something that begins with “I suck at my job.”
Seriously??? Who does he think he’s fooling with that?
He must think everyone is as dumb as MAGAts…
And a urologist to get his head out of his ass…
Elections are not part of his wheel house.
So Maguire is not interested in guarding against threats to our elections.
Now, why could that be?
Incompetence or treachery?
Which is it?
His is exactly the kind of myopia that gets you promoted in Washington.
It’s more than ‘myopia’.
It’s not Washington, that’s a false equivalency.
It’s criminal behavior by GOP leaders.
might make a fool of myself with this question out of a lack of knowledge, but does the whistleblower statute tell the DNI to think about turning the complaint over to Congress based on his limited knowledge, or does it just say turn the document over to Congress?
Well this is what you get when you have “acting” directors, administrators, and secretaries.
And this is what happens when a President of ill repute does casting calls for open positions.
That’s funny. I heard him tell Rep. Hurd that he thought election security is the biggest challenge for the IC and the country.
Amazing.
I don’t think it’s fair, or safe, to rule out “both.” In fact, I’m gonna go with “both.”
Yes.
If it has the word “shall” in the law then Republicans have a problem with it.
What would it have taken for “election security” to enter your mind?
“Before you get the aid approved months ago by Congress that your country desperately needs, I want you, acting in your capacity as the leader of a foreign country, to manufacture dirt on my likely opponent in the 2020 United States presidential election so I can use it to smear him and secure an election victory for myself.”
ETA: Because, as Schiff pointed out, that’s basically what Trump said - but rather than using plain English, he was just using the language he knows … mobster.
The acting director of national intelligence didn’t consider the whistleblower’s complaint that’s led to an impeachment inquiry to be an election security matter.
Let’s say that the Director of National Intelligence is not very smart, or most likely prefers to be seen as a fool than as a crook.
Shall give documentation…
The shall part must have confused him
Also, I was at the gym reading the closed-captioning. Did Maguire say that he follows the law, BUT as a member of the Executive branch, he defers to what the OLC says is lawful?
I mean, I guess that’s true as a rule, but what if the OLC is very wrong in its legal analysis?
I respectfully disagree – Michael Atkinson, the IG was a Trump appointee, too. I think Maguire’s ability to have “good intentions” but also the ability to compartmentalize them from his job responsibilities for narrow legalistic reasons is endemic across all institutions. Clearly Atkinson did the right thing, but Maguire didn’t – so not all Republicans are hacks (and not all hacks are Republican). That said, Atkinson is very rare exception in the Trump administration.