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Kurt Eichenwald
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1. It's amazing how few reporters understand the law in this situation. They are not saying " @ODNIgov Joseph Maguire is breaking the law." It is not even arguable that this is happening.

So, let's give them some reporting.....
@ODNIgov 2...here is the DNI itself on the legal requirements of turning over whistleblower complaints under Title VII of Public Law No: 105-272 (The Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act).

There is no "If the DOJ approves" standard. It is MUST...
@ODNIgov 3...the House is not powerless to act here. "Going to court" when they KNOW it is a matter of URGENT concern (because the Inspector General says so) is insane.

So, use #InherentContempt to arrest @ODNIgov Joseph Maguire. fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R…

Reporters: Learn this stuff.
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Kurt Eichenwald
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1. The most important story right now:

The Trump Administration is knowingly and willfully breaking the law, to wit the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act.

This requires DNI to turn over to Congress any whistleblower report deemed by IG to be urgent.....
2... so, reporters, you are watching lawbreaking right in front of you. And you are spending time asking about a Biden conspiracy theory, or what did Trump say on a call, blah blah. All of this is falderal right now.

Build the story, from the ground up. The lawbreaking...
3...is step one. Slam "why why why, how how how are you withholding?" This is Title VII of Public Law 105-272. People seem hesitant in their interviews on what it says. So, here is the language you need to know...

(Whole law linked here, at 112 stat 2413) govinfo.gov/content/pkg/ST…
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Kurt Eichenwald
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1. Goddamn. Given how rapidly much of the press have allowed the Ukraine scandal to be "well, what about Biden," here is a quick and dirty presentation of the facts in hopefully ending this. It is appalling that a easily disproved conspiracy theory is taking equal place to...
2...the fact that the Trump Administration is illegally withholding a whistleblower report from Congress, purportedly involving a promise made by Trump to persuade the Ukranian's to investigate Biden's son. I mean, JESUS! Which is the story here?

So, one time, quick and dirty...
3...the simple timeline on why the entire "scandal" is BS. For a fuller explanation, read my long thread from yesterday.

The timeline is this:

About 2013: The UK launches a money laundering investigation of Mykola Zlochevsky, owner of Burisma Holdings in Ukraine....
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Kurt Eichenwald
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1. It remains amazing to me that the Trump Administration - through the lawbreaking of @ODNIgov Joseph Maguire - has blown up the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act, and so few in the media seem to understand the significance of this. Whatever Trump or some....
@ODNIgov 2..other click-y name did is far less important than the fact that Maguire - through arrogance, stupidity or criminality - has singlehandedly destroyed the protection hammered out over decades to allow for wrongdoing in the intelligence world to be communicated to oversight...
@ODNIgov 3...if some president orders the CIA to assassinate, say, a top french government official, there is NOTHING in place now that will protect a whistleblower from disclosing this to anyone. If Congress is not told, and the political appointees sign off on it, any abuse of the...
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