What’s there to hide?
That’s what a congressional panel investigating a potentially urgent whistleblower complaint from the intelligence community wants to know.
This has not been getting nearly as much attention as it should be.
Why?
“Why does a dog lick himself?”
Because he can.
More evidence that we are moving further on the trajectory towards fascism.
When the flock of geese lands and starts to shit everywhere, it’s hard to know where to start the clean-up, I suppose.
Schiff is not the loose-cannon type. That’s why this is an urgent story.
Trump is the individual who corrupts and makes complicit-in-his-evil as many people as possible who are exposed to his malevolent toxicity.
The trick is the “as many people as possible” part.
There is always a possibility that you can’t corrupt and compromise everyone.
Did they find Jared’s backchannel?
Anything to do with the arrest of suspected mole Cameron Ortis in Canada on Friday?
Acting DNI and Trump will refuse. Schiff will issue subpoena. Acting DNI, at Trump’s (perhaps unspoken) direction, will refuse to comply with subpoena. Schiff’s committee will sue to enforce the subpoena. Barr’s DOJ will file a motion to dismiss saying it’s an inter-branch political dispute and the courts cannot get involved because … something, something … we have to protect Trump.
We need, not only whistle-blowers, but people with documentary and taped evidence who are willing to leak those things to relevant committees and the media. It may be the only way to get any look at what is really going on. The next Democratic president can pardon them all - ETA: while prosecuting the Trumpers.
Once more it seems like our only salvation is going to be career government officials who are unwilling to let the world go to hell in four years with Trump and his mobsters.
Sure looks like the United States, under Republican control is becoming a Dictatorship and personality cult. What’s the matter with Republicans? Can’t survive under a democracy? Republicans are the greatest threat to our nation since the CIVIL WAR.
Schiff: “The reason he’s not acting to provide it even though the statute mandates that he do so, is because he is being instructed not to. This involved a higher authority.”
There’s only one authority higher than DNI…
Ritualism is social interaction with symbols with no practical meaning. If, as has been stated somewhere on this site for the last 30 months, we are on the “road to a dictatorship” then the Dem Debates were meaningless.
Ritualistic
Going forward we had better be careful if, when and how we wave the white flag to Emperor Trump the First.
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." – Abraham Lincoln
The traitors are in charge- Trump; Barr and McConnell- Nancy won’t do anything and the Russians are leisurely choosing their next vehicle to dismantle the United States without firing a shot.
What a mess.
The acting DNI is withholding the information he is legally bound to provide because he’s too busy kissing Trump’s ass to comply with the law.
Schiff is going to get the whistleblower information one way or another.
And the acting DNI is going to get his comeuppance.
Schiff will do this with an engaged populace.
Other countries do not have the freedom of expression we have…
USE IT DAMMIT.
OT The story practically gave us an Easter Egg. This is Trump’s hand-picked toady ACTING as DNI with no other input but Trump. He needs to be brought in for some interrogation
A tub of margarine?
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Blubber!
Dan Coats was DNI until 8/15. He knows what this is about. Get him in front of the House Intelligence Committee. He’s no longer under Trump’s thumb.
“It’s not NICE to fool Mother Pence!”
(Lightening visual/thunder audio)