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Christopher Miller
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Here it is: the whistleblower complaint that sparked this whole thing. intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…
"In the days following the call, I learned from multiple U.S. officials that senior White House officials had intervened to "lock down" all records of the phone call, especially the word-for-word transcript..."
Oof. Further attempt to hide the call transcript.

"...the transcript of the President's call with President Zelenskiy was placed into a computer system managed directly by the National Security Council (NSC) Directorate for Intelligence Programs."
Pretty clear from the complaint that the White House knew how damning this call would be and immediately set out to cover it up.
I think Volker and Sondland come off looking a bit better here than they did in news reports where they were described more/less as having colluded with Giuliani, no?
What's also apparent is that the whistleblower's complaint was just about spot-on with the memo of the July 25 phone call released yesterday.
What we believed but couldn't report: Trump told Pence to cancel his planned travel to Ukraine to attend Zelenskiy's inauguration in May. And it was "made clear" Trump wouldn't meet Zelenskiy until he saw how he "chose to act" in office.
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Christopher Miller
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Hi from Kyiv! Ukraine's being talked about by everyone right now & not all of it is, er, accurate. Luckily, there are many journalists & researchers in Kyiv—or who've spent significant time working here—who can help. Without further ado, here are those I recommend you following:
Ukraine: @fabrice_deprez @matthi_williams @stefsiohan @SebaGobert @berdynskykh_k @TaniaKozak @dpeleschuk @TaniaKozyreva @wiczipedia @ianbateson @myroslavapetsa @JoshKovensky @IKoshiw @sarahlain12 @ser_ou_parecer @Matthew_Kupfer I may be forgetting some. If I have, add below.
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Christopher Miller
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So, it could be that the Trump-Zelenskiy phone call on July 25 is the one which led a whistleblower from the US intelligence community to lodge a complaint. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
Trump-Zelenskiy call came just before whistleblower complaint. When I asked, officials in Zelenskiy's office declined to speak about it. When I tried to ask Zelenskiy himself on 9/13, his press secretary pulled me from him. He didn't address call in his public comments that day.
Here's Zelenskiy's readout of that July 25 phone call with Trump. Pay attention to the highlighted area.
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Christopher Miller
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Ukraine's scandal-prone state security service, the SBU, has earned a reputation as one of the country's most corrupt institutions and proven thus far to be immune to reform. Is Ukraine’s newly elected President Zelenskiy up to the task? My story: rferl.org/a/ukraine-zele… v @RFERL
@RFERL How successful Zelenskiy is in cleaning up the SBU will be a litmus test of his office's resolve to bring Ukraine more into line with Western democracies. On the other hand, failure to reform it could hobble wider efforts to curb corruption & econ crime. rferl.org/a/ukraine-zele…
"Now there's a real opportunity to reform [Ukraine's security service]," says Ambo William Taylor, current charge d'affaires @USEmbassyKyiv. Insight also from @MarkGaleotti @AndyHunder @ANTAC_ua's Tania Shevchuk @JohnEdHerbst @PA3yMKOB's Oleksiy Melnyk rferl.org/a/ukraine-zele…
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Here's how you know that the "whistle blower" complaint is bogus.

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"In the days following the phone call, I learned from multiple U.S. officials that senior White House officials had intervened to 'lock down' all the records of the phone call..."
"Especially the official word-for-word transcript of the call that was produced as is customary by the White House situation room."

THERE IS NO WORD-FOR-WORD TRANSCRIPT made of phone calls from the situation room.
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BREAKING: In complaint to Congress, whistleblower claims Trump has been "using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election."
The whistleblower's name has been removed from the 9-page unclassified version of the complaint that has just been released by the House Intelligence Committee.
The complaint appears to be written by someone who knows how to write a legal document.

The individual complains about the July 25th call, which he(?) says he learned of from "multiple White House officials with direct knowledge of the call."
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Tim Mak
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Whistleblower complaint:

"I have received information... that the President of the United States is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election."

intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…
"This interference includes, among other things, pressuring a foreign country to investigate one of the President's main domestic political rivals," the whistleblower writes, naming Giuliani and AG Barr

intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…
The whistleblower cites "more than a half dozen officials" who have provided him/her with the info.

"I was not a direct witness to most of the events described."

intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…
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Shane Harris
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The whistleblower complaint has been released. Unclassified version. intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…
The WB says he/she based the complaint on information and conversations provided by "more than half a dozen U.S. officials."
Alleged: "the President of the United States is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election"
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JM Rieger
@RiegerReport
New York Times report from May on Biden, Ukraine and Burisma Holdings:

"No evidence has surfaced that the former vice president intentionally tried to help his son by pressing for the prosecutor general’s dismissal.”

nytimes.com/2019/05/01/us/…
NYT - Hunter Biden was warned by associates who had experience in Ukraine to stay away from Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of Burisma Holdings, who had worked in the government of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych.

nytimes.com/2019/05/01/us/…
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It is unclear if/how seriously Ukraine’s fmr. prosecutor general Viktor Shokin investigated Burisma.

nytimes.com/2019/05/01/us/…
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