I know the one the White House is most worried about.

Trump told the President of Ukraine that if he turned over incriminating evidence regarding Joe Biden's son that he would release the $250 million in funds he's holding up over the objections of Congress. Straight up quid pro quo.

It's almost certain that the whistleblower listens in to Trump's calls as a matter of his job with the intel department. Trump truly thinks that everyone inside the government loves him as President or are two cowed by his power to do him any harm.

Trump probably told Putin that he planned on cutting NATO funding too, and who knows what else.

I certainly hope the whistleblower is already doing whatever the law proscribes for circumventing the DNI blockade so they can go straight to Congress. If so, all this sturm and drang is just to keep Barr and Trump distracted.

People, this is pretty obvious here and Trump isn't even trying very hard to hide it. He's presidenting for what's best for HIM, not the nation. And he may be conspiring against the United States in the process.

Rut roh....!

The complaint involved communications with a foreign leader and a "promise" that Trump made, which was so alarming that a U.S. intelligence official who had worked at the White House went to the inspector general of the intelligence community,

Does this bother any of you conservatives? Anybody......? Bueller....? Bueller....?

Or are you going to trash whomever the whistleblower is for putting their country ahead of this President?

Anybody remember this from 2 weeks ago?

This and the coverup are going to force impeachment.

Or if the Republicans rally up, ignore the truth, and try to defend what Trump's likely done, instead it'll be some form of civil war.

Trying to subvert the election is a conspiracy against the US and confirms Trump understands all too well what Russia did in 2016.

And in my mind, if Pence doesn't come correct really quickly, he's just as guilty as Trump is for faithfully defending the indefensible.

Barr is going to get an anvil dropped on him for manipulating the DOJ into the Trump Protection Agency. Can anyone believe the highest law enforcement official in the land is actively covering up an apparent quid pro quo that gives US taxpayer dollars in exchange for documentation that's only purpose is to personally help the President, not the nation.

Hey, this is on the GOP now. The Democrats should shut up and let the cards hit the table, then stare at them and say "Whatcha gonna do?"

If they choose to side with Trump, hit the streets all over America and shut this mother down until the criminals are no longer in control of the police.

Can anyone imagine Dan Coats or Sue Gordon withholding the whistleblower complaint and defying Congressional authority because Trump told them to, just like his "acting" DNI Maguire currently is?

Why do you think they "resigned" and left their posts on August 15th?

One continuous unrelenting shiite show.

Most of the fill information is already out in the public. Today it took on a different light.

And in my mind, if Pence doesn't come correct really quickly, he's just as guilty as Trump is for faithfully defending the indefensible.

#13 | POSTED BY TONYROMA AT 2019-09-19 09:54 PM

Too late.

For those unfamiliar with how the Ukraine and Trump are controversially tied, here is a quick synopsis with supporting background links:

#43 | POSTED BY GALAXIEPETE

I can't give you enough Newsworthies! I wonder why posters leap into a topic criticizing other people when they obviously haven't read the article nor understand the details of the issue.

One clarification that I only learned after the fact: The label "Urgent Concern" is an expressed designation that has to meet statutory requirements. It is a specific type of whistleblower complaint, and is obviously self-indicative. As you noted the IG agreed that the contents of the complaint met the designation requirements and then took the next step in the process as he should.

What hasn't be done by the letter of the statute is the mandated sharing of the complaint by the DNI within 7 days of him receiving it. So by definition, the complaint's withholding by the DNI is a direct violation of the statute, but at present the Justice Department has no plans to hold him accountable because THEY are the ones claiming (outside the law) that the complaint is about a topic that has some form of executive privilege attached, thereby usurping the law.

What hasn't been done....

#43 cont.

Thinking further about your post makes me realize that most people probably don't even know what the Intelligence Community's Whistleblower process even is beyond its seemingly simplistic name.

First, the Intelligence Community's leaders have spent much time creating a system where employees can file observer-complaints and receive needed protections against reprisal as long as they follow the steps in the process. The process also protects the complainant from violating any laws based on illegal handling and dissemination of classified information that may occur related to the complaint itself.

And the process also guarantees that the information in the complaint will be independently judged by the IC IG. The IG's investigation and corroboration (done without exposing the whistleblower) triggered the escalation of the complaint as the next step in the process. The rest of the story is all over the posts on this thread and many others.

But the larger points are the whistleblower process is not something anyone undertakes unless something's really, really, perhaps career ending important. It's not something a person would do for politics alone, particularly someone who apparently worked competently in their intelligence position, especially being so close to the White House and the President himself. I doubt this is an overtly political person, but by virtue of their act, they did draw a lines between what they deemed as right and wrong, and legal and illegal.

Whistleblowing within the intelligence community is likely a fairly rare occurrence. Somebody reported something that has now changed their life forever. No way in hell that they did it for politics like Trump and his attack dogs are already saying. They're actively trying to intimidate anyone else inside the IC thinking about anything similar.