House Subpoenas Pentagon, OMB In Impeachment Probe | Talking Points Memo

House panels considering whether to impeach President Donald Trump issued subpoenas on Monday to the Defense Department and Office of Management and Budget, the latest move in a wide-ranging investigation into how the President wielded U.S. foreign policy as a blunt instrument to pressure Ukraine into manufacturing political dirt.


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Good timing. Immediately after he thumbed his nose at the Pentagon on Syria.

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He really is impeaching himself.

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Also, the Pentagon will be reluctant to piss off the very people who decide what their budget is every year.
OMB on the other hand is another part of the Trump cabal and will only do as Hair Furor demands.

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MSNBC reporting now that there may be more than 2 whistleblowers. Ken Dilanian saying there are “numerous” with first hand information.

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Feel free to write/edit better, TPM.

“The Trump administration released the Ukraine aid on Sept. 11, after it had been frozen for months in which it was frozen.”

“…it had been frozen for months in which it was frozen.”

Just pathetic…

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“It’s whistleblowers all the way down.”

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Rumor has it that there are at least 7 whistleblowers now.

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It must to nice to have never made a grammatical error, in your entire life!

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Starting to sound like a calliope

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Infrastructure Week is gonna be :fire:.

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Every bus has at least four wheels.
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Congress should keep forcing the Pentagon to weigh in on as many issues as they can. If it becomes obvious that the Pentagon is not behind him the flag waving base might even see the disconnect.

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https://www.justsecurity.org/66475/ukraine-ukrainegate-overwhelming-confirmation-of-whistleblower-complaint-an-annotation/

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Is that the correct term for a pack of whistleblowers? A calliope?

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The Trump administration released the Ukraine aid on Sept. 11, after it had been frozen for months in which it was frozen. Two days before — on Sept. 9 — the House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, and Oversight Committees had launched an investigation into the pressure campaign on Ukraine.

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Where are you hearing that there are 7?

Twitter and other sources.
Unconfirmed, but the sources are usually correct.

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