SCHIFF: Potentially Massive Whistleblower Complaint Against Trump Being Withheld From Congress

[kpete]

NEW: Schiff is hinting at a potentially massive whistleblower complaint against Trump or other senior WH officials coming from an intelligence official.

But in a statement, accompanied by a subpoena, Schiff says it's been illegally withheld form Congress.

HMMM: SCHIFF has issued a cryptic subpoena, claiming an intel community whistleblower's complaint has been withheld from Congress -- and could, perhaps, involve the president.

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MORE:
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/13/schiff-maguire-intelligence-1496135
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1172655862277689346.html



UPDATE:

Just in from a senior intel official:

“We received the HPSCI's subpoena ... We are reviewing the request and will respond appropriately. The ODNI and Acting DNI Maguire are committed to fully complying with the law and upholding whistleblower protections and have done so here.”

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[Iliyah]

1. shithole gets further cross-eyed . . .

foaming at the mouth, further batshit nutso and now screaming to criminal Barr and McTurtle - PROTECT ME, I am your master!

[SayItLoud]

2. They (rePUBICS) don't give a flying F

They will NOT comply when are the Dems going to understand this? When, if they lose the House? Don't say that will not happen look who's potus....russia can you hear me?

Just sayin...arrest vs paper is needed now, before it's too late.

[reACTIONary]

36. Arrest who? And who....

... will do the arresting?

And what if a writ of Habeas Corpus is demanded? Awe gee, more paperwork.

[triron]

49. SCOTUS ruled in 1821 (?) that congress has the power to arrest and detain.

[Freethinker65]

3. Barr's move.

[PhoenixDem]

4. Go get them congressman Schiff

Keep at it and you'll have success

[spanone]

5. K&R...

[Haggis for Breakfast]

6. Cow Cookies !

No one in this administration is "committed to fully complying with the law."

[sprinkleeninow]

9. As in Meadow Muffins or Bull Biscuits?

The ultimate redress is haul off and into the clink.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

13. Actually I was channeling Colonel Sherm T. Potter (MASH4077)

He chose not to be vulgar, but colorful and creative. And in his tongue-in-cheek jibes he was always funny.

[sprinkleeninow]

14. Heheh... True, true. I loved that show. Still on one of our off channels. I ran the gamut original

airing and then re-reruns.

Fr. Mulcahy~> "Jocularity!" 😄

[Haggis for Breakfast]

16. Sometimes it's fun to get all of the seasons of a show you really liked

and then just binge watch them all day long instead of catching up with the latest depressing news of the day.

I keep off the airwaves on Saturday and most of Sunday. This weekend, we dragged out all of our old CSI (the one in Las Vegas) DVDs and tomorrow, we start testing our powers of observation and start crime solving again.

Next weekend, it is the entire collection of "The Honeymooners" with Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows, Art Carney and Jane Kean.

It's a wonderful respite from the sturm und drang of the week's train wreck.

[sprinkleeninow]

17. 'The Honeymooners'...👍 Enjoy! eom

[brewens]

20. I watched the whole series a couple years ago over a few months. I was 11 when it started.

Lots of great stuff I was too young to get back then.

One thing that shows up about once every season is Hawkeye sniffing his food and describing what it really smells like. "If you took a raw egg, put it in an old shoe, and buried it under a chicken coop."

I remember not being happy about some cast changes at the time, but it always seemed to work out pretty well.

[ArcticFox]

23. None of them ever say which law.

But it's always in the singular, isn't it?

[ffr]

7. We are not safe from Putin's military.

Conservatives will stand our military down and let them in the front door.

[whathehell]

10. Not so sure about that..

It seems a bit far fetched, to be honest.

[ffr]

19. No, what seems far fetched is to consider how many people in the military are loyal to Rump

Don't discount that.

[reACTIONary]

37. Exactly how many is that? And does...

... voting for someone imply loyalty of the degree you are positing?

[not_the_one]

40. 27,582 and yes

next question



Maybe you need to work on your critical thinking skills.

[reACTIONary]

46. LOL, 30,000 "conseratives" are going to....

... "stand down" the 1.5 million active duty military personnel in the face of a foreign invasion?

Far fetched is a bit of an understatement.

[uponit7771]

54. If that 30k includes field and flag officers like Flynn then that's not far fetched at all.

[reACTIONary]

58. Uh Huh...

So do you know who those 27,582 "conservatives" are? And why they are believed to be capable of treason in the face of a foreign invasion?

This is absurd nonsense. It belongs in offbeat->creative speculation, where it can be easily ignored and do no harm.

[uponit7771]

59. Did you know Flynn was a traitor? I put nothing past MAGA Cultist, there's something rotten going

... on in the KGOP.

[uponit7771]

53. +1

[DFW]

22. Putin is smarter than that

Why send his army to our shores when he can make our army his?

If you are smart and ruthless but with limited resources, and facing an enemy who is inept, but has unlimited resources, just make HIS resources YOURS. Problem solved without firing a shot.

All Putin has to say do is have the Russian embassy hand Trump a document proving that Trump is in to Deutsche Bank for $2 billion, and have Deutsche Bank ready to confirm they only agreed to the loan because the Russian government guaranteed the note, and it is still outstanding.

The only question Trump would have after that is whether or not he should have the football gift-wrapped before handing it over.

[SergeStorms]

8. Add it to the other 2,546 Trump crimes.

That's an arbitrary number by the way, but it does seem a bit low, doesn't it?

How republicans can swallow everything this asshole does and keep it down boggles my mind. If a democrat, any democrat, did one of these things there would be self-flagellating republicans on the Capital steps screaming for their head on a pike. They wouldn't even consider impeachment, they'd demand death!

[CrispyQ]

26. +1

The hypocrisy of the right is stunning. And draining. I've reached the point where I avoid people I know who are republicans because I just don't respect them anymore. I cut some slack during the Bush years, but this one's gonna leave a mark.

[triron]

11. Just more of the treason that has been committed and will continue until

democrats face up to it and quit pretending. We have traitors in the WH eos.
self serving except to Putin.

[triron]

12. Seth Abramson sums it up well.

Link to tweet

[Takket]

15. Speculation is...

This might have something to do with drumpf having given Putin details on our spy. Recall the news story from a fe days ago about the CIA needing to extract a spy.

[smirkymonkey]

18. I love you, Adam Schiff!

[NewJeffCT]

21. another thread on this here

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[dchill]

24. K&R.

[olegramps]

25. I like the way he operates. No bluster, just steady determination.

[Phoenix61]

27. So the whistleblower now knows their

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complaint is being illegally withheld from congress. I’m betting they are talking to an attorney to find out what happens if they meet with Schiff.

[triron]

29. Would you rephrase this? I don't understand your meaning.

[Phoenix61]

30. Should have been being not bringing. nt

[triron]

43. thanks.

[MarkmBha1]

28. The sh*t is going to hit the fan...

It is time to IMPEACH Trump, Speaker Pelosi.

[BSdetect]

31. k&r

[ananda]

32. I wish I could vote for Schiff for president right now!

Subpoena
Prosecute
Impeach

JUST DO IT!!!!

[triron]

33. Here is the entire letter sent by Schiff to the acting DNI.

https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/20190913_-_chm_schiff_letter_to_acting_dni_re_whistleblower_-_subpoena.pdf

My bet is the acting DNI is covering for the traitor Trump.

[machoneman]

34. Wow, so many ways in which this could go.

-Tip-off to Putin on our Kremlin spy
-notes taken away from translators, twice at least, when Trump met in the WH after firing Comey with two Russkies and the separate Putin meeting. Or maybe two Putin meetings.
-side bar meeting in Europe we are not aware of.
-Israeli, French, UK, German intercepts of Trump's unsecured cell phone calls.
-CIA, FBI, NSA intercepts per the above.

Good god, so many things our whistle-blower may have learned.

[triron]

35. Bottom line: trump is probably an agent of Putin's.

[drray23]

38. That whistleblower needs to go to Congress

He/She should meet with Schiff and give him the info. If the trump admin tries to stop him/her , he/she can drag legal proceedings until we get back the presidency next year.
I'm sure there will be plenty of people willing to contribute for the defense fund.

[flamingdem]

39. DO SOMETHING

The dems have got to grab this bull/y by the horns. Legal, smegal.

[Ilsa]

41. People need to be arrested for not complying with subpoenas.

I don't know if congress has this power, but enforcement needs to an action to back up authority.

[triron]

44. I believe SCOTUS ruled way back in 1821 (?) that they could arrest and detain.

[uponit7771]

55. +1, and enforced such in 1935 IIRC

[KY_EnviroGuy]

42. Here are the thoughts of a Georgetown University law professor....

Marty Lederman @marty_lederman
Law professor at Georgetown University Law Center
Sep. 14, 2019

Link: https://threader.app/thread/1172869284365819906

(snip)

So what will happen? Hard to say. At least four possibilities: (i) DNI reveals the information in some form to at least some members of HPSCI. (ii) If not, it's *possible* the whistleblower and/or the IG might take it upon themselves to share w/HPSCI but at the risk of losing their jobs. The degree of that risk probably depends largely on whether ODNI's nondisclosure will be viewed as reasonable or unreasonable. (iii) Litigation--which might or might not take longer than 14 months. (iv) HPSCI finds out after Jan. 2021

KY......

[triron]

45. I say no to litigation unless judge agrees to expedite.

[triron]

47. knr

[Hekate]

48. KnR

[triron]

50. kick for visibility

[bluestarone]

51. KICK

AGAIN!!!!

[BSdetect]

52. k&r

[Botany]

56. We are dealing with the biggest series of crimes in America's history in the rigging of our ...

... elections in 2016. End of story. The working with hostile foreign powers in an attack on our
democratic institutions, briberies, pay offs, espionage, murder, money laundering, organized crime,
electronic and the media conducting weapons grade propaganda, election hackings and manipulations
of electoral outcomes, unneeded and unending congressional hearings into nothing in order to
hurt Hillary Clinton and "they" used data and information that was stolen by Russia in those hearings, and
now the flat out obstruction of justice by Bill Barr in order to cover up those crimes.

Trump needs to be impeached now and if the republicans in the senate still want to stand with him
fine let 'em.

This "thing" is so big no one person can really get their head around it.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212462733

https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/20190913_-_chm_schiff_letter_to_acting_dni_re_whistleblower_-_subpoena.pdf

[bluestarone]

57. WOW!

K&R