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Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley defends whistleblower:

"This person appears to have followed the whistleblower protection laws and ought to be heard out and protected. We should always work to respect whistleblowers’ requests for confidentiality."
Grassley goes on to discuss hubbub around second hand info:

“the distinctions being drawn between first- and second-hand knowledge aren’t legal ones... Complaints based on second-hand information should not be rejected out of hand, but they do require additional leg work..."
Grassley has for decades been passionate about whistleblower protections.

Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden earlier this year: "The gold standard, when it comes to legislative championing of whistleblower rights, is Chairman Chuck Grassley.”

citizen.org/news/2019-whis…
And GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley was an original co-sponsor of the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989
congress.gov/bill/101st-con…
By the way, this past April was the 30 year anniversary of the Whistleblower Protection Act, which I chronicled here:

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In non-impeachment news:

Three Indiana judges suspended after a White Castle brawl that left two of them wounded

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"The altercation apparently started sometime after 3 a.m., when one of the judges, Sabrina Bell, raised a middle finger at two men yelling from a passing SUV, and ended after one of those men shot two of the judges"

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"The three [judges] had ended up at a White Castle after trying to go to a strip club at 3 a.m. and finding it closed..."

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This is how the Taylor transcript starts:

THIS WHOLE HEARING IS OUT OF ORDER!
AMBASSADOR TAYLOR: "That was my clear understanding, security assistance money would not come until the President committed to pursue the investigation."
Three immediate takeaways from the Taylor transcript

P. 190: Amb Taylor says his "clear understanding" was there was a quid pro quo

P. 260: The originator of the idea was Giuliani

P. 280: Amb. Taylor says withholding military aid to Ukraine harms U.S. national security
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to introduce resolution calling on Trump to rethink his invite of Erdogan to the White House
McConnell pronounces the name of the Turkish president as "Erdo-GAN," with a hard G
While McConnell is introducing a symbolic resolution pressuring the president to rethink Syria strategy, he is also waving off immediate Turkey sanctions

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NEWS ALERT: Our latest formal statement regarding the continuing effort to unnecessarily & dangerously expose the identity of our #whistleblower client.
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In correspondence dated October 22, 2019, the Counsel of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency made it clear that “Whistleblowers play an essential public service in coming forward” by reporting their reasonable belief of waste, fraud, abuse, and misconduct,
and that whistleblowers “should never suffer reprisal or even the threat of reprisal for doing so.” Significantly, the letter quotes Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA), Chairman and co-founder of the U.S. Senate’s Whistleblower Caucus, who noted recently regarding this matter,
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THREAD: 1/7 In correspondence dated October 22, 2019, the Counsel of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency made it clear that “Whistleblowers play an essential public service in coming forward” . . . wapo.st/32Qd941
2/7 . . . by reporting their reasonable belief of waste, fraud, abuse, and misconduct, and that #whistleblowers “should never suffer reprisal or even the threat of reprisal for doing so.”
3/7 Significantly, the letter quotes Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA), Chairman and co-founder of the U.S. Senate’s Whistleblower Caucus, who noted recently regarding this matter, that whistleblowers “ought to be heard out and protected” . . .
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The GOP tried to throw Trump a lifeline today by elevating easily debunked conspiracy theories.

But the cracks in the caucus are still there:

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Thread: News Summary from the Week that Was (16-22 June)

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2A. The State Dept revealed Monday that it has identified "multiple security incidents" involving current or former employees' handling of Hillary Clinton's emails, & that 23 "violations" and seven "infractions" have been issued as part of the department's ongoing investigation.
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