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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDOJ was Directing the DNI in How they should Break the Federal Whistleblower Law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice played a key role in a Trump administration decision to withhold a whistleblower complaint from Congress, U.S. House Intelligence panel chairman Adam Schiff said on Thursday, adding that lawmakers did not know yet if the White House was involved.
Schiff, speaking to reporters after a closed-door meeting with the intelligence communitys inspector general, said that the Justice Department had misinterpreted the law in blocking the complaint.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-whistleblower-schiff/schiff-says-doj-involved-in-decision-to-block-whistleblower-complaint-idUSKBN1W42JH
Schiff says DOJ involved in decision to block whistleblower complaint
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/19/1886644/-DOJ-was-Directing-the-DNI-in-How-they-should-Break-the-Federal-Whistleblower-Law?utm_campaign=recent
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Whom ever is the Whistleblower,they have been threatened with Criminal Prosecution if they go to the Congressional committees.
Now that is some serious shit my friends.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)he thinks the president has extreme powers.
But..what is a long time career guy doing at this point in his life? Why would he suddenly go deep criminal? Or was he always crooked as hell? Why didn't Dems know?
Gave an Oscar performance at confirmation! And they fell for it.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Libby as well as Olie North?
The smell is getting over whelming. Hunch says the Lawyer repping the Whistle Blower is a specialist dealing with CIA folks.
Folks,buy Pop Corn and Potato Chip Futures. It is going to be one hell of a shit show to come. Leningrad Lindsey and Moscow Mitch will be outed as well.
Christmas on the Volga.
wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)barr has marked his territory with all the piss and shit he could muster in order to protect donnie doofus.
Freethinker65
(10,024 posts)If DOJ dared to prosecute, no way a jury would convict such a Patriot for saving the country.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)ffr
(22,670 posts)You cannot threaten, fire, reprimand, etc, etc, etc... a whistleblower. That law is written to protect them from persecution for obvious reasons...
THE PEOPLE THEY ARE BLOWING THE WHISTLE ON WILL GO AFTER THEM, i.e. tRump, Pence, Barr,...
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)When does it finally become enough?
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)of being a criminal. The end of drumpf's Presidency grows near and I for one can't wait for that day!