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News outlets chase leads as whistleblower mystery deepens
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/20/media/donald-trump-whistleblower-ukraine/index.html
New York (CNN Business)
The Washington Post's editorial board posed a question on September 5: "Is Trump strong-arming Volodymyr Zelensky for political gain?" That was the first time I heard about the Ukraine issue that's now front and center in the news — the allegation that Trump was trying to "force Ukraine to meddle in the 2020 election."
First, let me resurface what the Post wrote two weeks ago. The editorial board said Trump had "suspended the delivery of $250 million in U.S. military aid to a country still fighting Russian aggression in its eastern provinces," leading some to suspect that he was "once again catering" to Vladimir Putin. "But we're reliably told that the president has a second and more venal agenda: He is attempting to force Mr. Zelensky to intervene in the 2020 U.S. presidential election by launching an investigation of the leading Democratic candidate, Joe Biden," the editorial said. "Mr. Trump is not just soliciting Ukraine's help with his presidential campaign; he is using U.S. military aid the country desperately needs in an attempt to extort it."
This was an extraordinary charge — and it was being leveled by one of the country's most-read editorial boards. The wording, "we're reliably told," suggested the paper had a pivotal source in a position to know what was going on...
Who blew the whistle and why?
More than a week after the WaPo editorial, on September 13, we all found out that House Intelligence Committee chair Adam B. Schiff had issued a subpoena to Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire, demanding that Maguire produce all the relevant details about an urgent whistleblower complaint that was being withheld.
To date, Maguire hasn't done that. CNN's team reported on Thursday that the White House and the DOJ "have advised the nation's top intelligence agency" that the employee's complaint "isn't governed by laws covering intelligence whistleblowers."
This standoff, CNN's Jim Acosta said, "amounts to taking the whistle from the whistleblower."
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New York (CNN Business)
The Washington Post's editorial board posed a question on September 5: "Is Trump strong-arming Volodymyr Zelensky for political gain?" That was the first time I heard about the Ukraine issue that's now front and center in the news — the allegation that Trump was trying to "force Ukraine to meddle in the 2020 election."
First, let me resurface what the Post wrote two weeks ago. The editorial board said Trump had "suspended the delivery of $250 million in U.S. military aid to a country still fighting Russian aggression in its eastern provinces," leading some to suspect that he was "once again catering" to Vladimir Putin. "But we're reliably told that the president has a second and more venal agenda: He is attempting to force Mr. Zelensky to intervene in the 2020 U.S. presidential election by launching an investigation of the leading Democratic candidate, Joe Biden," the editorial said. "Mr. Trump is not just soliciting Ukraine's help with his presidential campaign; he is using U.S. military aid the country desperately needs in an attempt to extort it."
This was an extraordinary charge — and it was being leveled by one of the country's most-read editorial boards. The wording, "we're reliably told," suggested the paper had a pivotal source in a position to know what was going on...
Who blew the whistle and why?
More than a week after the WaPo editorial, on September 13, we all found out that House Intelligence Committee chair Adam B. Schiff had issued a subpoena to Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire, demanding that Maguire produce all the relevant details about an urgent whistleblower complaint that was being withheld.
To date, Maguire hasn't done that. CNN's team reported on Thursday that the White House and the DOJ "have advised the nation's top intelligence agency" that the employee's complaint "isn't governed by laws covering intelligence whistleblowers."
This standoff, CNN's Jim Acosta said, "amounts to taking the whistle from the whistleblower."
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To be honest, I can't recall a time in my lifetime where the media was more essential to the maintenance of our liberal democracy than right now.
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the idea that "king of nepotism" red don--who has installed his unqualified spawn in the White House--would be allowed to use Biden's son's actions against the father as fodder in a political campaign, would be laughed at.
"Those laws don't apply to me!"
It will paralyze all who investigate you.
