Posted on 09/14/2019 9:57:20 AM PDT by ransomnote
The nation's top intelligence official is illegally withholding a whistleblower complaint, possibly to protect President Donald Trump or senior White House officials, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff alleged Friday.
Schiff issued a subpoena for the complaint, accusing acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire of taking extraordinary steps to withhold the complaint from Congress, even after the intel community's inspector general characterized the complaint as credible and of "urgent concern."
“A Director of National Intelligence has never prevented a properly submitted whistleblower complaint that the [inspector general] determined to be credible and urgent from being provided to the congressional intelligence committees. Never," Schiff said in a statement. "This raises serious concerns about whether White House, Department of Justice or other executive branch officials are trying to prevent a legitimate whistleblower complaint from reaching its intended recipient, the Congress, in order to cover up serious misconduct."
Schiff indicated that he learned the matter involved "potentially privileged communications by persons outside the Intelligence Community," raising the specter that it is "being withheld to protect the President or other Administration officials." In addition, Schiff slammed Maguire for consulting the Justice Department about the whistleblower complaint "even though the statute does not provide you discretion to review, appeal, reverse, or countermand in any way the [inspector general's] independent determination, let alone to involve another entity within the Executive Branch."
"The Committee can only conclude, based on this remarkable confluence of factors, that the serious misconduct at issue involves the President of the United States and/or other senior White House or Administration officials," Schiff wrote in a letter to Maguire on Friday.
The initial whistleblower complaint was filed last month, and Schiff indicated that it was required by law to be shared with Congress nearly two weeks ago. His subpoena requires the information to be turned over by Sept. 17 or else he intends to compel Maguire to appear before Congress in a public hearing on Sept. 19.
Schiff said Maguire declined to confirm or deny whether the whistleblower's complaint relates to anything the Intelligence Committee is currently investigating or whether White House lawyers were involved in the decision-making about the complaint.
Officials in Maguire’s office acknowledged Schiff’s subpoena late Friday.
“We received the HPSCI's subpoena this evening. We are reviewing the request and will respond appropriately,” said a senior intelligence official. “The ODNI and Acting DNI Maguire are committed to fully complying with the law and upholding whistleblower protections and have done so here.”
DNI refuses to release the whistle blower report to Schiff, so 'ol worthless spreads a copy of the letter below around to frantic, "panicked" talking heads who sound the alarm.
It looks like another episode of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.
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I'll put .jpg versions of the PDF below.
Here's the link to the (nicely legible) 4 page letter .pdf
https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/20190913_-_chm_schiff_letter_to_acting_dni_re_whistleblower_-_subpoena.pdf
Hold tight friends!! Sessions/Barr are well aware of this ruse and they’re working diligently behind the scenes.
Schiff for Brains trikes again!
On the plus side - at least President Trump has distracted Adam Schitt [major Pedophiles Against Trump supporter] from sex-trafficking underage children for the day...
Great post and I am stealing this: [major Pedophiles Against Trump supporter]
In a great, vast country such as ours with well over 300 million in population, there are bound to be a certain number of nut cases. It is indeed unfortunate that so many of them show up in the social activity we term government . Schiff is a perfect example of that deficiency.
Adam Schiff is probably working alongside whoever planted the mole in another soft-coup attempt.
I read somewhere an explanation of the coup plotters:
We know crime families exist. They may run horse racing or gambling or hotels. What if criminal gangs “got into government” and ran their criminal enterprises from there?
Translation: Some BS we made up is not gaining traction.
How would Schiff know about it if it’s being withheld?
Did this compromat originate with Shiff?
Did this compromat originate with Shiff?
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I believe he helped craft it as he would want to design something he could work with. But he’ll claim that the intel person was desparate to “protect Americans” and resorted to contacting Schiff-less directly. Note Schiff is pretending he doesn’t know what’s in it, just that it exists, so there’s that fig leaf.
This seems very similar to the same shtick that Feinstein used with the Ford bimbo against Kavanaugh.
They are known for using the same tricks over and over.
Hey Shiff! We’re still waiting for your iron clad, bomb proof evidence of collusion with the Russians. Where is it?
Literally a fudgepacker...
Clear obstruction of justice. Adam Schiff said he had evidence over 2 years ago, yet he refuses to turn it over. He hasn’t given it to the Special Counsel or anyone else at the Justice Department. Who is the Congressman covering for, Trump or Putin?
YUP!..and they will escalate in intensity as more is exposed about the OBAMA GOVERNMENT COUP against a duly elected and sitting president...
the more that is exposed and the higher it goes..the higher the stakes become...if completely exposed..it could lead to civil war and the end of the democratic party as we know it..
Its the only option they have at this point!!
Barr may not do anything else in his tenure but HE DID STOP the mueller sh.t in its tracks.
Comparing him to a worthless fake patriot redneck is an insult.
Comparing most anybody to sessions is an insult.
If Adem Schiff for brains is so concerned about docs and legal proceedings, then he needs to speak up on the 4 fraudulent FISA warrants and the damages that have ensued or shut the eff up.
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