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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums??? "The alleged whistleblower didn't have direct knowledge of the communications..."
This is from CNN:
???
if he/she didn't have direct knowledge, what are we looking at? whistleblower hearsay?
and how does knowledge of communications "partly" prompt someone to do something?
from CNN:
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-ukraine-09-24-2019/h_d06dbee5cbade1329751397bc46f7166
lettucebe
(2,336 posts)Seriously, reporting on the whistleblower without hearing from or seeing the complaint is little sketchy
Owl
(3,629 posts)FBaggins
(26,696 posts)Could have been a recording or transcript... or interview of someone who did have direct knowledge.
SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)garybeck
(9,932 posts)LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)get the red out
(13,459 posts)when the NY Times reassured us just before the 2016 election that there was no way Trump accepted help from Putin. The media isn't always correct. I don't completely trust anything yet.
woodsprite
(11,853 posts)Barr is probably into fiction writing just like his daddy was.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)the WB has other information
ritapria
(1,812 posts)jaysunb
(11,856 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)"partly prompted"
"concerns came in part"
"information not obtained during the course of their work"
"details have played a role"
you have to read between the lines but it sounds like the communications were only part of the puzzle
maybe its more like a math equation....he had information that didn't add up and he had to solve for x
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Sounds like some desperate handwaving there.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)which was confirmed when he heard about the communication ( which he had no direct knowledge of)
Poiuyt
(18,087 posts)spanone
(135,633 posts)Why would the whistleblower want to talk to Schiff's committee?
GusBob
(7,286 posts)Trump said he would release the transcript
WB says he will talk to committee
I think he has information outside of the phone call that burns DT
ffr
(22,647 posts)Fuck CNN!
dawg day
(7,947 posts)But what the heck, let's see the complaint and then we can all decide for ourselves!
Vinca
(50,170 posts)hears a conversation about the extortion phone call Trump made to the Ukrainian president. Similar to the conversation heard by the reporter during one of the events surrounding the Mueller indictments. Should they report it and be taken seriously? I think so. I suspect it's someone in the intelligence community who might have second hand knowledge. It could be Dan Coates reporting what an underling told him. If the IG thinks it's urgent, it's urgent.
garybeck
(9,932 posts)it's just another he-said, she-said
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)lapfog_1
(29,166 posts)multiple people... transcripts... recordings...
he is my favorite choice for this version of "deep throat"
Claritie Pixie
(2,199 posts)It's not to be taken seriously.
FakeNoose
(32,349 posts)Don't forget that Dan Coats and Sue Gordon are gone, and the new guy Joseph Maguire is a Chump toadie.
I'm sure he's in way over his head because he's brand new at his job as acting DNI. Meanwhile Chump, Barr, Miller and everyone else are telling him what to say to the press. I'd take all this with a grain of salt.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,276 posts)and referred it to the DNI if there wasn't a "serious, urgent concern."
jcgoldie
(11,584 posts)ie someone in the white house.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)knowingly, heroically put him or herself in serious danger, perhaps career-ending, perhaps devastating to freedom, family, life as they knew it.
Christine Blasey-Ford and her family are still in hiding, unable to go home or return to their work. Friends have received serious threats from people of great power. One of Trump's options is to frame this whistleblower under the espionage act, described by as federal prosecutor as being "in a world of trouble!," which could result in decades in prison.