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A whistleblower in the intelligence community has reportedly come forward about an interaction with a foreign leader in which Trump made “a ‘promise’ that was regarded as so troubling” that the whistleblower filed a formal complaint in August. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
It remains unknown which leader or what Trump promised. In the five weeks before the complaint was filed, Trump interacted with at least five other world leaders, including Putin and Kim Jong Un. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
The acting Director of National Intelligence has so far refused to share details of the complaint with Congress. However, the inspector general for the intel community is set to testify in closed session tomorrow, with the acting DNI scheduled next week. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
UPDATE: In today's closed-door session, the intel community's inspector general has repeatedly refused to tell Congress details about the whistleblower complaint, apparently including the identity of the foreign leader or the nature of Trump's promise. nytimes.com/2019/09/19/us/…
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The acting Director of National Intelligence will be testifying publicly starting at 9 a.m. Watch it live here: c-span.org/video/?464509-…
.@RepAdamSchiff on yesterday's memo: "Yesterday, we were presented with a record of a call between the president of the United States and the president of Ukraine in which the president sacrificed our national security and our Constitution for his personal and political benefit."
@RepAdamSchiff Nunes calls for a "quiet, sober inquiry, as we do for all whistleblowers."
That would have been possible, had the administration not done everything they could to conceal the complaint from Congress.
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The whistleblower complaint has been released. It lays out not only the details of Trump's July 25 phone call but also a pattern of efforts to keep the call secret, and identifies several witnesses to the misconduct:
intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…
One key revelation: Officials removed records of the call and stored them in a "separate electronic system," which "underscored ... that White House officials understood the gravity of what had transpired"—and raises the question: What other records have been hidden this way?
Reminder: This whistleblower complaint, which was based on conversations with "more than half a dozen U.S. officials," was deemed "credible" and an "urgent concern" by the intel community's IG—only for the DOJ and acting DNI to withhold it from Congress.
intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…
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Trump didn't just pressure Ukraine's president to investigate his political opponents—he offered to have the U.S. Justice Department help them do it.
washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
Nothing to see here, just the president of the United States weaponizing the U.S. government to explicitly pressure a foreign leader into pushing conspiracy theories to help his re-election campaign. whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…
It's not just that: Trump used the phone call to push conspiracy theories about Russia's attack on the 2016 election and the origin of the emails stolen from the DNC and to—surprise—attack the Mueller investigation: whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…
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Jennifer Cohn
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Did Trump promise to tell Putin the identity(ies) of one or more US spies?

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This is beyond troubling.

The whistleblower who heard Trump's conversation with an unknown foreign leader was so alarmed that they put their career on the line to take a complaint to the inspector general for the U.S. intelligence community. 1/5 #Whistleblower #ThursdayThoughts
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The #Whistleblower could well blow the lid off three-plus years of Trump/Russia shenanigans and expose Trump as the traitor he is, for all the world to see.

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1/ Per reports, the whistleblower reported on a “promise” Trump made to a “foreign leader” on the phone. The only foreign leader of consequence Trump spoke to on the phone in the relevant timeframe is—mirabile dictu—Vladimir Putin.
2/ Putin must realize that Trump is on thin ice, that impeachment is coming, that even Russian cyber-sabotage can’t make him win an election he loses by 8 million popular votes. If Vova wants any more juice, the time to squeeze the orange is now.
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Trump’s communications with foreign leader are part of whistleblower complaint that spurred standoff between spy chief and Congress, former officials say - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
Trump’s interaction with the foreign leader included a 🚨“promise”🚨 that was regarded as so troubling that it prompted an official in the U.S. intelligence community to file a formal whistleblower complaint with the inspector general for the intelligence community
One former official said the communication was a phone call.
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"Trump’s interaction with the foreign leader included a 'promise' that was regarded as so troubling that it prompted an official in the U.S. intelligence community to file a formal whistleblower complaint with the inspector general" wapo.st/2kos98a
"Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson determined that the complaint was credible and troubling enough to be considered a matter of “urgent concern,” a legal threshold that requires notification of congressional oversight committees."
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😨Ex CIA Bob Baer suggests the “urgent credible threat” in the whistleblower complaint (that DNI won’t give Congress) ”usually” has something to do w/ someone in White House setting up an illegal backchannel to a foreign govt, or some sort of corruption, discovered by CIA or NSA.
🚨>> Whistleblower complaint involves TRUMP’S communications with a foreign leader that included a “promise” regarded so troubling it prompted an official in the US intelligence community to file a formal whistleblower complaint with the inspector general. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
In the weeks before the “urgent & credible” whistleblower complaint about Trump’s “promise” to a foreign leader, he had interactions with:
1) Russia’s Putin that WH initiated
2) 2 “beautiful” letters from North Korea’s Kim Jong Un
3) Pakistan’s PM
4) Netherlands’ PM
5) Qatar emir
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