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Whaddaya wanna bet Trump is behind this, that the whistleblower's whistleblowing implicates the White House?
Yet, every accusation of "Trump is a tyrant" falls on deaf ears by the right.
Yet, every accusation of "Trump is a tyrant" falls on deaf ears by the right.
https://beta.washingtonpost.com/opi...ligence-ig-why-is-it-being-withheld-congress/
The developing drama involving a whistleblower complaint to the inspector general of the intelligence community is particularly opaque, but we know some essential facts.
They reveal this episode to be of a piece with the White House’s governing principle of keeping any possibly derogatory information from view — lawlessly if necessary, as it is here, and often is.
On Aug. 12, consistent with the procedures established in the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act, an unidentified whistleblower sent a disclosure and complaint to the inspector general for the intelligence community.
The inspector general determined upon preliminary review that the complaint was credible and that it related to a matter of “urgent concern” (a statutory classification). The inspector general then transmitted the disclosure to the director of national intelligence (DNI), as required by law.
That triggered a seven-day deadline for the DNI. The statute provides that the DNI “shall” within seven days forward the disclosure to the congressional intelligence committees. Followers of recent brawls between Congress and the Trump administration will recognize the all-important legal significance of the “shall” language. It takes the legal duty out of the realm of executive discretion, imposing a fixed duty that the federal courts have been able to enforce since the bedrock 1803 decision Marbury v. Madison.
But surprise. The DNI is refusing to do so.
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