9/21/2019, 12:52:37 PM · by ransomnote · 12 replies
washingtonexaminer.com ^ | September 21, 2019 | Susan Ferrechio
Posted on 09/21/2019 1:56:13 PM PDT by ransomnote
The whistleblower who filed a complaint with the intelligence community inspector general did not have direct knowledge of the communications between President Trump and the foreign leader in question.
The conversation was reportedly a July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. It is alleged that Trump urged Zelensky multiple times to work with his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to investigate Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden and his ties to an energy company owned by a Ukrainian oligarch. Giuliani has previously urged a top official in Ukraine to look into the ties.
An official who has been briefed on the matter, however, told CNN that the whistleblower “didn’t have direct knowledge of the communications.” The official said that the concerns and subsequent complaint came in part from the whistleblower “learning information that was not obtained during the course of their work.”
Those details have reportedly played a role in the administration's determining that the complaint, lodged in August, didn’t fall under the reporting standards for intelligence whistleblower law.
Although many details are still unclear, the communications in question reportedly involved a “promise,” and House Democrats, as well as the elder Biden, are pushing to have the complaint and a transcript of the call between Trump and Zelensky released.
Inspector General of the Intelligence Community Michael Atkinson received the initial complaint and forwarded it to acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire, who has so far refused to pass it along to Congress.
The root of the proposed investigation into Hunter Biden stems from his being a 2014 board member for the natural gas firm Burisma Holdings. While he was still vice president, Joe Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees if Ukraine did not fire its top prosecutor, who was accused of corruption and was investigating the oligarch who owned Burisma Holdings. That raised concerns of a potential conflict of interest, which could be damaging to Biden’s presidential campaign.
At the time of the prosecutor’s departure, Hunter Biden was being paid $50,000 per month for his work with the energy company. Hunter Biden left Burisma’s board earlier this year.
Both Trump and Biden have denied any wrongdoing, with Trump describing his phone call to Zelensky as “perfectly fine" and Biden saying he has never spoken to his son about his overseas business dealings.
C'mon! They aren't even bringing their 'A' game!
Kavanaugh redux.
IOW, he/she/it made crap up.
Is Pencilneck the “whistleblower” who went running to the media with these rumors?
Put a fork in everyone involved. They’re done.
“Next fake news scandal, please!”
I would love to see some examples of Hunter’s work product for Burisma. Studies, meeting logs, reports,etc. I’ll bet they will be hard to find and verify.
Delaware State Police have many more stories.
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so the pathetic and desperate communist/socialist/democrats are jumping like a hungry alligator and snapping at third hand rumors.
YES, THE DEMOCRAT PARTY HAS BECOME THE DESPERATE AND PATHETIC PARTY OF SERIAL LIARS.
Living proof of that is right here in this post.
In case anyone missed it, here is CNN intelligence analyst and Trump-basher Phil Mudd giving a full-throated defense of President Trump. Fredo Cuomo seems stunned =>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS_ybCgkg4w
Hiding under the “whistleblowers act” to subvert the President. 100 to 1 whistleblower was a Democrap who was instructed to do this.
And it's not the Whistleblower who is being protected, it is the person who conveyed the "report". Sounds like a Comey repeat.
Whoever leaked to “Joe Doe” should be fired and prosecuted for the leak. “Joe Doe” should be fired because he is too stupid and partisan to be in the US Intelligence service, even as a valet.
The “whistleblower” was warning Democrats that Trump is investigating Biden’s corruption over his son....something Ukraine tried to investigate but Biden stopped by threatening to withhold US aid money.
That’s a shame.
Yuup! It’s all over now. They have PDJT in a bear trap he can’t possibl.................. Oh! FAIL!
But Trump is
The Pres just received about hundred million bucks worth of free media coverage exposing Joe Biden’s corruption -perfectly targeted at precisely the demographic that needs to hear this
“unidentified sources”
“unnamed sources”
“sources say”
“insider sources”
All those are weasel words spoken by liberals when they are lying.
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With the earlier article indicating that Schiff knew about the complaint before he received the first whistleblower (wb) letter, I think the wb had "help". :/
How can one even be a “whistle blower” when that person was not directly involved?
3rd hand knowledge is called rumors, its useless, it could just be crap read on the Internet for all anyone knows at this point.
This is a farce
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