Whistle-Blower's Complaint Is Said to Involve Multiple Acts by Trump.
Source: nyt
The complaint goes beyond a commitment that President Trump was said to have made to a world leader.
A potentially explosive complaint by a whistle-blower in the intelligence community said to involve President Trump was related to a series of actions that goes beyond any single discussion with a foreign leader, according to interviews on Thursday.
The complaint was related to multiple acts, Michael Atkinson, the inspector general for American spy agencies, told lawmakers during a private briefing, two officials familiar with it said. But he declined to discuss specifics, including whether the complaint involved the president, according to committee members.
Separately, a person familiar with the whistle-blowers complaint said it involves in part a commitment that Mr. Trump made in a communication with another world leader. The Washington Post first reported the nature of that discussion. But no single communication was at the root of the complaint, another person familiar with it said.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/us/politics/intelligence-whistle-blower-complaint-trump.html
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)I hope to god that we find out all about it and soon. This can't go on.
ancianita
(35,812 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)but made one particular promise to one of them that was of particular significance to the intelligence community?
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)of people who will publish it. That the order to not turn it over to the house came from Barr himself.
scarytomcat
(1,706 posts)Bar should be locked up
diva77
(7,604 posts)Mc Mike
(9,106 posts)The other half of the 'acts' -- there are about a dozen wackjob dictators he's buddies with, & he's doing sleazy treasonous 'deals' with all of them. He commits felonies and treason on stage with a bullhorn, using mass media.
He's a giant orange termite, gnawing on all that antique wainscoating in D.C.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)This *HAS* to be the silver fuckin' bullet that ends our national nightmare...
Miguelito Loveless
(4,438 posts)not in the slightest.
a kennedy
(29,462 posts)potential silver bullet that was going to get rid of him for the last 3 years. I JUST WANT IT TO HAPPEN.
revmclaren
(2,488 posts)'deadman switch' in case he disappeared or the complaint was stopped by the Whitehouse. All the information could be in the hands of multiple individuals.
We can hope.
ONLY!!! 2019 and beyond.
SergeStorms
(18,882 posts)if he breaks it once, or does something completely dishonorable or shitty, he does it a hundred times. Laws and common decency mean nothing to Trump. He's the asshole of the world, meaning 'if you were going to give the world an enema, Trump's mouth is where you'd stick the tube'.
targetpractice
(4,919 posts)We moved to a small town in the midwest for a couple of years, and she insisted "if the the world needed an enema, they'd stick the nozzle right here."
Thanks for the flashback! And, your claim about Trump being a repeat offender is absolutely TRUE!
SergeStorms
(18,882 posts)but it tickled my funny bone enough to remember and use it whenever possible. Your Mom sounds like a smart woman.
scarytomcat
(1,706 posts)he will do anything to save his ass
marble falls
(56,358 posts)no specific details?
elleng
(130,126 posts)By Nicholas Fandos, Eileen Sullivan, Julian E. Barnes and Matthew Rosenberg
Charlie Savage and Michael S. Schmidt contributed reporting.
Matthew Rosenberg, a Washington-based correspondent, was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for reporting on Donald Trump and Russia. He previously spent 15 years as a foreign correspondent in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. @AllMattNYT Facebook
Nicholas Fandos is a reporter in the Washington bureau covering Congress. @npfandos
Eileen Sullivan is the morning breaking news correspondent in Washington. She previously worked for The Associated Press for a decade, covering national security and criminal justice. @esullivannyt
Julian E. Barnes is a national security reporter based in Washington, covering the intelligence agencies. Before joining The Times in 2018, he wrote about security matters for the Wall Street Journal. @julianbarnes Facebook
marble falls
(56,358 posts)what did Donnie Two Scoops promise Putin about defense money to be sent to Ukraine or whatever it was?
Blackjackdavey
(177 posts)This is a critical question because it seems to me all of this thing has served to do so far is to get the Biden story in the news which they have been trying to do for a while now. I am skeptical of the leaks and the purpose. I wouldn't be in the least surprised to learn that this whole thing has been a hoax for that reason alone or that the whistleblower complaint has nothing at all to do with Ukraine.
NotHardly
(1,062 posts)brutus smith
(685 posts)Maybe it will go away before the election. (Sarcasm)
scarytomcat
(1,706 posts)make a deal with the saudi killer to bomb Iran and they agreed to blow-up some oil tanks to have a reason for the attack on Iran
he has been playing up his friendship for weeks... billions of dollars in cash and jobs makes SA our great friend talk
Dipshit is going to start a war and Iran is going to really hit back hard maybe in Israel but totally spill some oil in SA
Nukes could fly when Israel hits back
just my guess dump knows he has to make a move because he is falling in the polls
So many crimes are being committed every day
SansACause
(520 posts)Maybe Trump did something really, really bad but nobody knows or will say what it is. I don't really get the purpose of such reports.
oasis
(49,150 posts)Maxheader
(4,366 posts)and so many have failed..so far..
2naSalit
(86,048 posts)Can't imagine it's simply one point upon which a complaint, after all this time and overt corruption.
seltzerwater
(53 posts)But can we as citizens ask for a FOIA release of the whistle-blower complaint?
elleng
(130,126 posts)but at least FOIA requires formal requests, it's a legal process (which in the past was honored pretty well; now not so much, I suspect.)