Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Schumer calls on inspectors general to investigate retaliation against whistleblowers
See BS 'News' ^ | 2/10/20 | MELISSA QUINN

Posted on 02/11/2020 1:51:50 AM PST by Libloather

Washington - Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, is calling on internal watchdogs from across the federal government to investigate "any and all instances of retaliation" against federal whistleblowers who have reported alleged misconduct by President Trump.

Schumer's request to the nation's 74 inspectors general, who serve as the internal watchdogs of federal agencies, follows the removal of Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman from his job with the National Security Council. Vindman testified during the House Democrats' impeachment inquiry into Mr. Trump and participated in the July 25 phone call between the president and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, during which the president urged Zelensky to investigate his Democratic political rival.

"Our founders, having seen and studied societies governed by the iron fist of tyrants and the claimed divine right of kings, believed that truth was fundamental to the survival of our republic," Schumer wrote in a letter sent Monday to Defense Department Acting Inspector General Glenn Fine and the 73 other inspectors general. "Without the courage of whistleblowers and the role of inspectors general, the American people may never have known how the president abused his power in the Ukraine scandal."

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: backstabbers; ciaplot; inspectors; insubordination; liars; schumer; vindman; whistleblower
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-37 next last
Chuckles is leading the Gropin' Joe investigation? Weird.
1 posted on 02/11/2020 1:51:50 AM PST by Libloather
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Libloather

Why is there 74 IG’s?


2 posted on 02/11/2020 1:55:06 AM PST by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

Chuck and the WhistleMonicas. Great name for a rock band.


3 posted on 02/11/2020 1:57:13 AM PST by Bernard ("I don't know if that's true:" Schiff said.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

Why do New Yorkers keep electing this fool?


4 posted on 02/11/2020 2:01:15 AM PST by Ciaphas Cain (SMOKE YOUUUUUUUU!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: duckman

If you go across every federal agency...there are a total of 74 of them. I seriously doubt if they all meet once a year, or if they are on some national IG database. I’m also only talking about ‘top’ level....it’s not like the Army or Navy where you have an IG on every single installation.


5 posted on 02/11/2020 2:06:41 AM PST by pepsionice
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

Prep yourself for the minority chuck


6 posted on 02/11/2020 2:11:27 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nick dip .com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: All
Americans demand to know whether Sen Schumer is misusing his govt office to suppress free speech and to protect criminal activity.

It is entirely possible that Sen Schumer may have committed federal offenses, including, but not limited to:

<><> Title 18 U.S.C. §1341, 18 U.S.C.§1001, Presenting a False Statements and/or Documents to an Agent of the US Government (may involve several felonies and could include forgery);

<><> 18 U.S.C.§1027 False statements and concealment of facts in relation to these documents and other possible offenses including civil and/or criminal RICO violations.

<><> 18 U.S.C. §§1961-68 (RICO Act)18 U.S.C. §1001 (making false Statements to Agents of the US Government,

<><> 18 U.S.C. §241(Conspiracies Against Civil Rights). Violation of Civil Rights under Color of law and conspiracy. Conspiring with others to violate conservatives' 4th amendment rights.

<><> Possibly full investigations centering on RICO conspiracies under 18 U.S.C. §1962(c) could be warranted because (1) the persons (2) were employed by or associated with a public enterprise (3) that engaged in or affected interstate commerce and that (4) the persons operated or managed the enterprise (5) through a "pattern” (6) of falsified activity, and (7) the taxpayers were injured by reason of the “pattern” of racketeering activity.

<><> Alleged Offenses could include Violation of Rights – which prohibits in relevant part, “two or more persons (from conspiring) to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District

<><> Title 18 U.S.C. §2 41 – Conspiracy Against Constitutional mandates in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of having so exercised the same . . .” See, 18 U.S.C. §241.

Americans demand the following agencies commence investigations of Schumer's activities at once:

<><> FBI — Wire Fraud Division

<><> IRS-Fraud Unit

<><> Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General,

<><> Department of Commerce’s Office of Inspector General.

<><> DOJ’s Criminal Division— Public Integrity Section

<><> DOJ Criminal Division—Organized Crime and Gang Section.

7 posted on 02/11/2020 2:28:29 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

Hey Schumer, again... who’s the whistle-blower that needs protecting?


8 posted on 02/11/2020 2:31:18 AM PST by existentially_kuffer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

How can we retaliate against the whistleblower? No one knows who he is.


9 posted on 02/11/2020 2:32:18 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: All
Americans demand Sen Schumer be required to answer for unconstitutional applications of US law.

The US Department of Justice should not stand by idly while public officials like Schumer violate constitutional rights.

Civil Rights laws should be mobilized since Mr Schumer does not require for those who espouse leftist ideology.

There are sufficient factual allegations First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment claims to investigate Mr Schumer.

Pres Trump was acquitted of false charges. A Senate trial found sufficient reasons and many unfounded allegations to move forward to acquittal.

The Senate found Trump's arguments persuasive, and acquitted him.

Sen Schumer outrageously moves to suppress only conservative speech.

=======================================

Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice
How to file a complaint: https://www.justice.gov/crt/how-file-complaint

10 posted on 02/11/2020 2:42:21 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2015/03/25/friendly-reminder-there-was-no-inspector-general-at-state-when-hillary-was-there-n1976105

Friendly Reminder: There Was No Inspector General At State When Hillary Was There


11 posted on 02/11/2020 2:47:47 AM PST by maggief
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: All
CIRCA 2019---The Schumer Principle: Lying Under Oath Is Not Impeachable
Townhall.com ^ | December 18, 2019 | Terry Jeffrey / FR Posted by Kaslin

Twenty-one years ago, WRT then-President Bill Clinton's impeachment, then-Rep. Charles Schumer worked to establish the precedent that a president could lie under oath. The question for Schumer was not whether the president was lying but what he was lying about. The ultimate question underlying then-President Bill Clinton's impeachment was this: Did Paula Jones, an Arkansas state employee, have a right to fair and honest proceedings when she brought a federal civil suit against the former governor of Arkansas who had gone on to become the president?

"She claimed the Governor made boorish and offensive sexual advances that she rejected, and that her superiors at work subsequently dealt with her in a hostile manner and punished her in a tangible way for rejecting those advances," Judge Susan Webber Wright would eventually write in a 1999 opinion in which she held Clinton in contempt.

===============================

REFERENCE Judge Susan Webber Wright wrote the 1999 opinion which held then-Pres Clinton in contempt.The ultimate question underlying Clinton's impeachment: Did Paula Jones, an Arkansas state employee, have a right to fair and honest proceedings when she brought a federal civil suit against the former governor of Arkansas who had gone on to become the president? "Jones claimed the Governor made boorish and offensive sexual advances that she rejected, and that her job superiors dealt with her in a hostile manner and punished her for rejecting Clinton's advances,"

ITEM Clinton fought all the way to the USSC to prevent Jones' suit from proceeding. In 1997, the USSC ruled against Clinton; he had to give a deposition addressing Jones' suit in Wright's court. In her contempt opinion, the judge said Clinton made "intentionally false" statements in that deposition.

12 posted on 02/11/2020 2:49:42 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

Gee, isn’t that investigating a political candidate? I thought Democrats hated that...


13 posted on 02/11/2020 2:51:42 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

Hey Schumer.....

How about we look at what happened to the IG’s and Whistleblowers under the Obama administration. It’s been like 12 years, and nobody has done anything to the people who retaliated against them. When that’s all tidied up, then you can call for a IG investigation of “Whistleblower” retaliation.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/16/whistleblowers-double-standard-obama-david-petraeus-chelsea-manning

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/obamas-whistleblowers-stuxnet-leaks-drones/


14 posted on 02/11/2020 2:59:57 AM PST by Pete Dovgan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

Wouldn’t they find obambi treated them worse?


15 posted on 02/11/2020 3:06:33 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

They never stop. Power is their only goal.


16 posted on 02/11/2020 3:07:32 AM PST by Crucial
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: All
The House "get Trump" strategy connivingy avoided any mention
of Hunter Biden's lucrative Burisma sinecure.....the raison d'etre for impeachment.

CHRIS MATTHEWS: "People have to be mindless to not question what happened with Hunter Biden in Ukraine…..."

This means you, Schumer.

17 posted on 02/11/2020 3:08:14 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: Crucial

Currently I think it is survival...


18 posted on 02/11/2020 3:12:50 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Trump didn’t want an AG, he wanted a consigliere.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

There’s no requirement that Pres. Trump keep disloyal backstabbers on his staff.

Indeed, to do so would be idiotic.

BTW, those who testified completely misrepresented what actually happened, so that’s another valid reason to get rid of these a-holes.


19 posted on 02/11/2020 3:18:36 AM PST by canuck_conservative
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Libloather
So anybody who testified is a "whistleblower?
20 posted on 02/11/2020 3:21:56 AM PST by grobdriver (BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-37 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson