This morning, Donald Trump said that it would be fine with him if China investigated Joe Biden, thereby confirming that he wants other countries, including the authoritarian ones, to do his dirt-digging for him. Here's the video: Trump is now openly urging the leaders of Ukraine and China to investigate one of his political rivals.Via …
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Bad To Worse Open Thread
A missive from our President: Like every American, I deserve to meet my accuser, especially when this accuser, the so-called “Whistleblower,” represented a perfect conversation with a foreign leader in a totally inaccurate and fraudulent way. Then Schiff made up what I actually said by lying to Congress…… His lies were made in perhaps the …
Thursday Morning Open Thread: Today’s Magic Number
BREAKING: Here's the 218th lawmaker to support an impeachment inquiry (217 Dems plus Amash). This puts a majority of the House on record in support.https://t.co/3RIKRLxnic https://t.co/KWCHpQdazA — Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) September 25, 2019 Meanwhile, Individual-1 remains Murphy the Trickster God’s gift to political cartoonists… (Jack Ohman via GoComics.com) . (Tom Toles via GoComics.com) .
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The Whistleblower Plays Hardball
The law firm representing the whistleblower has put up a website. That website now contains September 24, 2019 statement from the intelligence community whistleblower legal team September 24, 2019, Letter from Andrew P. Bakaj, Attorney for Intelligence Community Whistleblower to Acting Director of National Intelligence September 24, 2019, Letter from DNI OGC to Andrew P. …
The Whistleblower Saga Bifurcates
There are at least two things going on in what we might call the whistleblower saga. I got confused by them last night, so let me try to clarify them for myself and whomever else might be confused. A whistleblower submitted a complaint to the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG), which the ICIG was then …
Speculations Are Open
We’ve all been wondering about the subject of the whistleblower complaint being withheld by Acting DNI Joseph Maguire from the House Select Intelligence Committee. Tonight, Washington Post has a hint for us. Twitter is exploding with speculation, and why should they be the only ones? From Adam Schiff’s letter to Maguire, it can be surmised …
Adam Schiff Writes A Letter
The Friday night news dump was unusually late this week. Adam Schiff, Chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, wrote a letter to Joseph Maguire, Acting Director of National Intelligence. Read it – it’s short and to the point. A whistleblower in the Intelligence Community disclosed a concern to the DNI intended for …