smr wrote:isaac_newton wrote:I see even many leading republican sensotors have been beating up on Trump over this one.
The Demoncrats are getting desperate because their repeating the same pattern of allegations that happened in the Kavanaugh hoax (hearing).
Yes, a professional in the intelligence community blew the whistle to a Trump appointed Inspector General who CONFIRMED the complaint as both credible and urgent and this is ALL A HOAX!
Go away until you're ready to have an honest discussion.
Question 1: why did they(Intelligence Professionals) change the rules to allow 2nd and 3rd hand information? (This happened just before the disclosure of the whistle blower allegations.)
This never happened. The law has always allowed second hand information because OF COURSE it does. Stop believing right wing propaganda.
Question 2: why did Adam Schiff lie about meeting with the whistle blower?
Schiff never met the whistleblower. Nobody lied about anything. The sequence of events was:
1. Whistleblower reported the problem to CIA Counsel.
2. Nothing happened, report got quashed.
3. Whistleblower contacted the appropriate congressional oversight body and talked to A STAFFER. The Staffer recommended they file a report with the Inspector General.
4. The Whistleblower did so.
5. The staffer mentioned to Schiff that there could be a whistleblower complaint heading their way.
ALL AS IS SUPPOSED TO FREAKING HAPPEN. That is how the whistleblower process is SUPPOSED to work. Congress is the oversight body the law says whistleblower complaints come to. There are contact pages on the official congressional websites called "blow the whistle" for whistleblowers in government agencies to use to contact congress ffs.
https://republicans-oversight.house.gov/whistle/THIS IS PART OF CONGRESS'S JOB.
The problem was/is that Trump with the permission of government of Ukraine produced the Transcript? The whistle blower just became a non entity because he has no 1st hand information.
His information came from people with direct access to the events, and try to pay attention to this next part, WAS CONFIRMED BY THE INSPECTOR GENERAL AND THEN THE CALL SUMMARY (not transcript).
So in a sense, yes the whistleblower is now less important because they already did the important part for them and what is going to happen next is dragging all the first hand participants in to testify. Which the White House is desperately trying to stonewall which is only going to add another obstruction charge to the impeachment articles if they keep defying lawful subpoenas.
That Transcript is harmless and benign.
That transcript shows the president of the United States using congressionally approved security aid to extort a foreign head of state into interfering in US elections, and telling him to work through his personal attorney and political operative to do so.
You have an absolutely demented understanding of the meaning of the words "harmless" and "benign".