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The whistleblower complaint is dated Aug 12 -- two-and-a-half weeks after the Zelensky call.

The whistleblower says the call "deeply disturbed" the White House officials who told him about it, who said "they had witnessed the president abuse his office for personal gain."
"They told me that there was already a 'discussion ongoing' with White House lawyers about how to treat the call..." the whistleblower writes.
Democrats are sure to seek testimony of Kurt Volker (US envoy for Ukrainian negotiations) & Gordon Sondland (US Ambassador to the EU).

Whistleblower says both met w/Zelensky on July 26 & advised Ukrainian officials on how to "navigate" the demands Trump had made the day before.
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House Dem resolution:

1) Directs the committees "to continue" their ongoing investigations.

2) Sets up 90 min rounds of questioning to be controlled by chairman and ranking member at open hearings *before* members get their 5 minutes. And staffers may ask Q's...

(more to come)
3) The GOP minority may request the appearance of certain witnesses, if they submit "detailed written justification of the relevance of the testimony."

4) Minority subpoenas MAY be granted, subject to approval by the chair, appealable to the full committee.
5) Electronic transcripts of the depositions taken thus far, "with appropriate redactions," may be made public.

6) The Intel Cmte's report may be transmitted to Judiciary and made public.
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Steven Portnoy
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In a briefing with reporters, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said the vote the House will take on Thursday is "not an impeachment resolution."

@RebeccaRKaplan reports the Democrats will rely on the ruling of the DC District Court that an impeachment inquiry is already underway.
@RebeccaRKaplan "This is about process to when we move out of the investigatory phase, which we’ve been in, into a phase where we have public hearings," Hoyer said.

"That's what it is. No more, no less.”
"The Republican position that we needed some resolution to authorize an impeachment, the court found to be without merit," Hoyer told reporters.
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A source familiar with the effort confirms a letter is circulating among conservative leaders in support of Mick Mulvaney.

The letter says those who’ve signed believe he "has been the most successful Chief of Staff in this administration."
Signatories to date include Family Research Council chief Tony Perkins, Jenny Beth Martin of Tea Party Patriots, activist Ginni Thomas, former Ohio gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell and Club for Growth president David McIntosh.
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Fox News releases poll that says 51% of Americans support the impeachment and removal of POTUS from office.

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Federal records show that the intelligence community secretly revised the formal whistleblower complaint form in August 2019 to eliminate the requirement of direct, first-hand knowledge of wrongdoing
thefederalist.com/2019/09/27/int…
The brand new version of the whistleblower complaint form, was not made public until after the transcript of Trump’s July 25 phone call with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and the complaint addressed to Congress were made public.
The new version eliminates the first-hand knowledge requirement and allows employees to file whistleblower complaints even if they have zero direct knowledge of underlying evidence and only “heard about [wrongdoing] from others.”
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So, I have to say this is fascinating, and I have to recommend that every American citizen read through what is alleged here.

That said, I think it unlikely to change minds in the long run, and while I don't want to get too political here, I want to discuss why.

#Whistleblower
First and foremost, the sourcing here is odd.
There is certainly nothing wrong with gathering information and consolidating it, but it *is* odd for a #whistleblower to have *NO* direct knowledge.

Who is this person? Do they represent this group of actors? Why didn't they ask someone with knowledge to report?
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1) Alright. Y'all were overwhelming in favor of it. Give me a second though, I gotta check something.

*shuffling* nope not here...

*papers rustling* nope, nothing here either...

Looks like I'm all out of fucks to give today. Fresh out.

TIME TO READ THE WHISTLEBLOWER SCREECH!!
2) The link so you can follow along on what will doubtlessly be a well thought out and articulate document full of thoroughly researched facts, logical conclusions, and absolutely no partisan hackery.

intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…
3) Ok, SOME partisan hackery.
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1/16 It has begun. The GOP is spinning that the sole transcript Trump says he will release is more important than the #WhistleblowerComplaint as a tactic to insist everything should ride on this one supposed piece of evidence.

#ImpeachTrump #ImpeachmentParty #UkraineTranscript
2/16 All reports indicate this was a months-long conspiracy Trump and Giuliani were engaged in, subverting & bypassing officials who tried to stop them.

A single call does not BEGIN to give an accurate depiction of the events that lead up to this. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
3/16 And Trump already has a shady history with releasing information.

Forget the obvious like his tax returns, school grades, and secret meetings with Putin.

Actually, a reminder of those secret meetings:
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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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