Posted on 09/30/2019 3:53:19 PM PDT by george76
Was the ‘nonpartisan’ Congressional Research Service weaponized to force the House into a premature impeachment inquiry?
Sean Davis wrote Friday about a secret update to the intelligence community inspector general’s “Disclosure of Urgent Concern” complaint intake form. It revamped the procedure to allow hearsay complaints, while prior versions of the form had included an admonishment that the IC IG could not find a complaint credible without “reliable, first-hand information.” While it appears the IC IG has the statutory right to promulgate new procedures, the rationale for the change and the curious nature of the timing has still not been shared.
Compelling new evidence now shows that the purportedly nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) may have been weaponized to mislead members of Congress and the American people — all in the name of advancing the impeachment process against President Trump. It appears that misleading guidance about precisely how expansive the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act (ICWPA) is was incorporated into the report just as the current whistleblower controversy began to pick up steam.
These Kind of Report Revisions Are Highly Unusual.
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Yes, the Statute Is Quite Specific on ‘Urgent Concerns’.
The updated CRS analysis inexplicably claimed that the statute was “not specific on who has the authority for determining whether a complaint, aside from its credibility, constitutes a matter of ‘urgent concern.’” This was one of only three assertions in the entire discussion of the ICWPA that wasn’t meticulously footnoted with the underlying statutory reference.
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Something Fishy Seems to Be Going on Here.
It should concern every American that the timing and substance of the updated CRS analysis advances a particular partisan narrative at the expense of a clear application of the law
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
Thanks for that. Meyer needs a spotlight placed on him and his actions while there.
Something smells all the way to Pluto and back!
The very reason I started looking into all of it for myself.
thanks...I saw that. maybe I’m starting to see more shadows - but in my mind, I think it just made things worse. It’s like Rose Mary Woods trying to show and explain how 18 minutes of tape got erased.
geeze louise...repubs were in on this ? this has been going on for awhile ?
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If you listened on Thursday the DNI laid it out and it became clear there was coordination between those “in the know” on the inside and people like Schiff.
It's amazing the confidence people have in the government's abilities.
So our Inspector Generals are partisan now and are also working to get Trump? Will that be Horowitz, spent 2 years looking into corruption in the Justice Department, when we finally get the report will it say, “they are all clean, no corruption in Obama admin, only Trumps?”
Ya Think?
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