Dangerous sign for democracy.
Trump is removing the Inspector General #Atkinson who acted with distinction and served the nation in Ukraine whistleblower complaint.
@jgeltzer and I wrote about how this would fit Trump’s “Redesign of American Democracy”:
justsecurity.org/68585/the-frid…
Trump is removing the Inspector General #Atkinson who acted with distinction and served the nation in Ukraine whistleblower complaint.
@jgeltzer and I wrote about how this would fit Trump’s “Redesign of American Democracy”:
justsecurity.org/68585/the-frid…
2. Geltzer and I wrote in February:
“In the words of Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire when testifying before Congress, ‘I have no reason to doubt that Michael Atkinson did anything but his job’—and, yet again, that’s exactly why Trump now might fire him.”
“In the words of Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire when testifying before Congress, ‘I have no reason to doubt that Michael Atkinson did anything but his job’—and, yet again, that’s exactly why Trump now might fire him.”
3. “As Trump’s former head of the Office of Government Ethics, Walter Shaub, warned, ‘Firing an Inspector General for processing a whistleblower complaint would be an extraordinary blow to whatever shred of government integrity remains. It would be an atom bomb.’”
cc: @waltshaub
cc: @waltshaub
