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From Politifact:
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff on Thursday threatened legal action against the Trump administration over its refusal to turn over a whistleblower complaint that reportedly involves President Donald Trump’s interactions with a foreign leader.
The intelligence community’s top watchdog refused on Thursday to share details with the panel about the whistleblower complaint, according to multiple lawmakers who attended the classified briefing, which the director of national intelligence has been withholding from Congress...
“Someone is trying to manipulate the system,” Schiff told reporters after the briefing, adding that the Justice Department is not providing an explanation about why it recommended withholding the whistleblower complaint from lawmakers. “There is no privilege that covers whether the White House is involved in trying to stifle a whistleblower complaint.”...
Atkinson may be prohibited by law from sharing details of the complaint with the committee, because Maguire has thus far refused to turn it over. Maguire is required by law to transmit whistleblower complaints to the House and Senate intelligence committees.
Earlier Thursday, Trump dismissed the reports, writing on Twitter: “Virtually anytime I speak on the phone to a foreign leader, I understand that there may be many people listening from various U.S. agencies, not to mention those from the other country itself. No problem!” He called the issue “another Fake News story.”... -- Schiff threatens to sue Trump administration over whistleblower complaint
Let me add a point not mentioned in the article, with one of them being that both men said that congressional dealing with this is "urgent" because of national security.
If Trump did nothing wrong, then why is he and his team not cooperating? If I'm innocent, I want all pertinent information to come out, and in this case it appears to involve national security.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff on Thursday threatened legal action against the Trump administration over its refusal to turn over a whistleblower complaint that reportedly involves President Donald Trump’s interactions with a foreign leader.
The intelligence community’s top watchdog refused on Thursday to share details with the panel about the whistleblower complaint, according to multiple lawmakers who attended the classified briefing, which the director of national intelligence has been withholding from Congress...
“Someone is trying to manipulate the system,” Schiff told reporters after the briefing, adding that the Justice Department is not providing an explanation about why it recommended withholding the whistleblower complaint from lawmakers. “There is no privilege that covers whether the White House is involved in trying to stifle a whistleblower complaint.”...
Atkinson may be prohibited by law from sharing details of the complaint with the committee, because Maguire has thus far refused to turn it over. Maguire is required by law to transmit whistleblower complaints to the House and Senate intelligence committees.
Earlier Thursday, Trump dismissed the reports, writing on Twitter: “Virtually anytime I speak on the phone to a foreign leader, I understand that there may be many people listening from various U.S. agencies, not to mention those from the other country itself. No problem!” He called the issue “another Fake News story.”... -- Schiff threatens to sue Trump administration over whistleblower complaint
Let me add a point not mentioned in the article, with one of them being that both men said that congressional dealing with this is "urgent" because of national security.
If Trump did nothing wrong, then why is he and his team not cooperating? If I'm innocent, I want all pertinent information to come out, and in this case it appears to involve national security.