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kentuck

(111,103 posts)
Thu Jan 23, 2020, 11:19 AM Jan 2020

A part of Schiff's timeline that I found very helpful:

It was the part about the whistleblower. How he went to the ICIG (Intelligence Community Inspector General) and the ICIG deemed that it was a credible account and said it was "urgent".

He then sent the complaint to the acting DNI, who had seven days to send it to the House Intelligence Committee. He never sent it to the House Committee.

Instead, he sent it to the DOJ for their perusal. They did not think it serious enough to bother with.

When they did not send it to the House Intel in the required time limit, the ICIG informed the House Intel Committee about it.

The next day, Donald Trump released his "copy" of the phone conversation between he and Zelensky.

I think this part of the timeline is important for those folks who might think the investigation of Donald Trump was entirely the creation of the Democrats, his political enemies.

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