The past few weeks have been a firestorm of new details concerning the intelligence community whistleblower and the subject of his complaint: An attempt by President Donald Trump to pressure the government of Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden, son of Trump’s leading Democratic rival Joe Biden.
What’s happened?
The sane portion of America finally has a sense of optimism that the nightmare might finally be ending?
It good to see our fine authors and editors have seen fit to use the term “Trump-Ukraine” in the headline. Let’s hope that the Biden-Ukraine meme is put to bed.
And yet, I just can’t shake the feeling that I’m gonna wake up next to Emily Hartley, and realize the last 24 hours were all just a crazy dream…
Thank you! It’s good to have this in one cohesive piece!
Four other timelines from Lawfare, Emptywheel, the Washington Post, and Just Security (this last one was suggested in a reply to this post by Matt_Shuhan. I haven’t compared or collated these with the imeline in the current post, but this should be done to make a grand unified timeline.
https://www.justsecurity.org/66271/timeline-trump-giuliani-bidens-and-ukrainegate/
too many words…
i want it summarized…
there that’s better…
Holy shit. How soon until Shep Smith is fired or arrested or is forced to apologize?
I found this one useful as well: https://www.justsecurity.org/66271/timeline-trump-giuliani-bidens-and-ukrainegate/
Thanks! That’s a good one, and I will edit my post to include it in the list. I hope someone familiar this all this compiles a grand unified timeline.
According to CNN, the whistleblower report has been delivered to…wait for it…the Senate. Burr says he has started to read it.
Wtf? Does the House really not have it?
Now if only cable news in general would put this to good use during their interviews with lying dissembling tRump toadies and other GOP nitwits that come on these shows to purposely muddy the waters. That would be commendable as well.
Mike Quigley says this WB stuff is bad.
But here’s my question:
How does Trump get the Kremlin talking points and push them through the bureaucracy even when they’re opposed to him as was the case with this UKR thing? What are the communications lines? It can’t just be the Putin-Trump phone calls. Is there a Dmitri Simes character visiting the WH and passing official messages from the Kremlin? Are they listening in and contacting him somehow? What’s going on?
OT: Just want to give Josh Kovensky a pat on the back for his superb work. Good hire, other Josh.
So does Schiff and he take a dig at Barr.
I want more info on how/when the decision not to forward the report to Congress.
In the Sept 9 letter, the IG does not mention the DoJ
The next day, Schiff writes to Maguire, to demand the WB complaint
But in a Sept 13, letter, the General Counsel for the DNI’s office says the decision was made in consultation with the DoJ
And the IG, in the Sept 17 letter, also says “DoJ”
Meanwhile, some time in August, The IG and acting DNI did a criminal referral pursuant to the case.
Why wasn’t the DoJ mentioned in the original IG letter?
How marvelous that the global climate crisis, national healthcare, income inequality, the bipartisan bombing of Yemen and the homelessness crisis, etc. etc. have been completely blown off the front pages and teevee screens by this mighty wurlitzer.
Probably a minor point, but mentioned in prior stories, but not here: the firing/resignation of the ambassador/emissary to Ukraine, presumably for protesting Giuliani’s pressure campaign.
Just saw that Senators Romney and Sasse are finding the notes of the phone call more than “deeply troubling.”