I, and others, have wondered aloud if eventually the whistleblower will just come forward, feeling what they have is too important to be successfully quashed (if that is the final outcome) by Trump and the DOJ. But what if this person is a lawyer, in the direct employ of the Executive Branch? Would ignoring a Judicial edict to stand down and keep what they know to themselves violate bar ethical rules? And therefore they may never come forward, even if they’re the only final avenue for exposure of their complaint?
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Fact: he could clear this up in minutes by authorizing the release of the relevant information…for some unfathomable reason…he wont…
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is anybody dumb enough to believe that I would say something inappropriate
Oh, of course. You would never blab out code-word secrets to the Russian foreign minister or admit to obstruction of justice on national TV or do any of that stuff which now that we think of it yeah you actually did fucking do. But thanks for arguing you’re too wily and cagey to do anything when normal Americans protecting our security might be listening, that’s useful to know. P.S. see a neurologist.
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At the very least, this is someone within the White House who has Top-Level Security Clearance making a “promise” to a Foreign Leader about something.
IF it’s not Cheatolini promising say, Putin he will pull the US out of NATO, then it’s PROBABLY Jared Kushner “Promising” Saudi Prince Bin Salman he will make sure the US goes to War with Iran (for another big investment in his 666 Property in NY of course.)
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trump would deny knowing himself if he thought he needed to.
If his mentor Roy Cohn were still alive he would take this as the highest form of flattery to be copied this way.
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If the whistleblower leaks it, the press have no way to confirm it unless it’s corroborated by another person made privvy to it in the legal chain of possession it’s traveled since it left the whistleblower’s hands. That means Trump, Barr, Atkinson or Maguire would have to confirm the leak. Otherwise Trump will always be in the position to assert whatever is being published is false and hearsay. If Congress is successfully prevented from getting a legal copy of the complaint, one with provenance, Trump is off the hook.
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“… is anybody dumb enough to believe that I would say something inappropriate with a foreign leader while on such a potentially ‘heavily populated’ call”
More apt question: Is Trump dumb enough to make an illicit, self-serving promise to a foreign leader, forgetting that someone might be listening in on the conversation?
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We are not buying that damn bridge to nowhere, the invisible bank-ruting wall, the excuses in this tweet, nor even the notioin that the Con in Chief authored that tweet.
The whistle-blower has to be somewhere in DNI.
My money is on Coats or Gordon, reporting it on their way out the door, but could be another employee.
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O’Donnell last night read from the whistle blower law: If the DNI fails to forward the IG’s report after some number of days, the whistleblower can go directly to Congress. He only has to notify the DNI that he intends to do so.
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Coats is a lawyer. Again, would any aspect of his employment preclude him from violating a confidence, should we consider the info he theoretically has was turned into a whistleblower complaint? I know lawyers can lodge whistleblower complaints, but can they circumvent the release of the complaint using channels outside the statutes, and not be in violation of bar ethics rules?
O he denied it - well that’s the end of that.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha Have we impeached the lying motherfucker yet?
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He would have had to be acting in a capacity as a lawyer for any of that stuff to apply. As DNI, he’s on the same rules as anyone else.
Better be getting fucking close. We’re hitting the tipping point of obstruction and treason.
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I’ll wager the DNI can instigate some legal maneuver, wherein the law provides for him the right to at least try to stop the whistleblower from going to Congress, alleging some harm or whatever. Trump sues everyone for every feared transgression. It can’t be so easy as to merely walk into Schiff’s office and sit down to talk once the DNI stonewalls the IG report.
Only if he can spend someone else’s hard earned money to pay the bill
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Maguire is claiming that the law doesn’t apply, since the president is external to DNI, ergo no Whistleblower protections would apply…
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