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Polly Sigh
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NSC lawyers [whose chief legal adviser is John Eisenberg, a Cipollone deputy] directed WH officials to move Trump's Ukraine call transcript to the secret server.

It was also Eisenberg who alerted the DOJ about the whistleblower complaint [in which he was implicated].

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"The Trump admin said on Friday that NSC lawyers [whose chief legal adviser is John Eisenberg, a Cipollone deputy] made the decision to place the call transcript into a highly classified computer system accessible to only a small number of officials."
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"But information about the whistleblower was already making its way through the administration. On Aug 14, White House [NSC] lawyer, John Eisenberg ... alerted the head of the DOJ's national security division about the complaint..."
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Polly Sigh
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When people asked why Gordon Sondland, who had no qualifications as a diplomat beyond the $1M he’d given to Trump’s inaugural, was charge of Ukraine relations, he answered with two words:

“The president.
@gregpmiller @PaulSonne @GregJaffe @michaelbirnbaum wapo.st/2LLqhkE?tid=ss…
@gregpmiller @PaulSonne @GregJaffe @michaelbirnbaum This is a long piece bit so worth the read. Gordon Sondland is real piece of work – in the worst way possible.
@gregpmiller @PaulSonne @GregJaffe @michaelbirnbaum On July 21, Taylor voiced concerns about Ukraine being treated as a pawn in US “reelection politics.”

Sondland said that Taylor was failing to recognize how bending to Trump’s demands was the only path to improving the countries’ fraught relationship. Wow.
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Polly Sigh
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NEW: Weeks before the complaint became public, CIA's top lawyer made criminal referral to DOJ on the whistleblower's allegations about Trump's abuse of power, raising questions about why DOJ didn't open an inquiry.
by @KenDilanianNBC @JuliaEAinsley #Maddow nbcnews.to/2Io2o0A
@KenDilanianNBC @JuliaEAinsley The move by CIA's general counsel, a Trump appointee, meant she and other senior officials concluded a potential crime had been committed by Trump, raising questions about why DOJ closed the case without conducting an investigation.

Because, Barr.
#Maddow
@KenDilanianNBC @JuliaEAinsley NSC lawyers [whose chief legal adviser is John Eisenberg] directed WH officials to move Trump's Ukraine call transcript to the high security server.

It was also Eisenberg who alerted the DOJ about the whistleblower complaint [in which he was implicated].
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Polly Sigh
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NEW!! GOP Sen Ron Johnson said Trump ambassador Gordon Sondland told him in Aug that the status of the aid to Ukraine was tied to Trump's desire to have Kyiv investigate matters related to the 2016 US elections.
by @rebeccaballhaus @siobhanehughes #Maddow wsj.com/articles/trump…
@rebeccaballhaus @siobhanehughes 9 days later, Sondland denies any quid pro quo.

Taylor: “It’s crazy to withhold security aid for help with a political campaign.”

Sondland: “[Trump] has been crystal clear no quid pro quo’s of any kind. … I suggest we stop the back and forth by text."
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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.

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