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Intelligence Community’s inspector general, Trump appointee
Michael Atkinson, posted a short statement online correcting
Davis. Using heavily bureaucratized language and the patient
and polite tone city officials use to assure the local gadfly that
the water department is not sending alien nodes through his
plumbing, the I.G. made a few basic points. First, the rules
governing whistle-blowers have not changed. At all.
Second, the I.G. had developed a new form for whistle-blowers to use
to file their complaints because the old form may have been confusing.
(“[C]ertain language in those forms and, more specifically, the informational
materials accompanying the forms, could be read — incorrectly — as
suggesting that whistleblowers must possess first-hand information.”)
That’s the change Davis seized upon — a clarification of the wording
in the submission form, not a change in the requirement.
Third, Atkinson noted that the entire issue is moot because the Trump
whistle-blower did have firsthand knowledge-
(“The whistleblower stated on the form that he or she possessed both
first-hand and other information.”) So no, the law was not changed
to allow complaints without firsthand knowledge. And no, this
wouldn’t have mattered anyway, because the whistle-blower
did have firsthand knowledge.
"In a rational world..."
"...the Federalistas would be quietly slinking away and changing the subject."
But in the actual world, they are continuing to insist they
were right all along. The Federalist reporting team has not
even developed its own alternative sources. Instead, they
are plucking out sentences from the I.G. report that was
written to correct their errors and claiming them as vindication.
Lots of people not reading actual text of ICIG statement.
The statement admits that forms were changed, as reported.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) September 30, 2019
More Mollie, more cringe
Mollie ✓
Twitter › MZHemingway
Our corporate media are arguing that the debunked Russia hoax
that they helped other Democratic leaders and operatives perpetrate
should have been allowed to cause problems for three years but can't
be investigated. I'm sure they'd like that to be the case but the truth
must out.
20 hours ago
Do not thank me, thank Jonathan Chait.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019...ral-trump-ukraine-impeachment-conspiracy.html
THE CREDIBILITY GAP:
-- On ABC’s “This Week” the Sunday before last, host
Martha Raddatz asked Pompeo directly about his knowledge
of Trump’s conversation with Zelensky. The secretary deflected
and replied that she was asking him about the whistleblower report.
“None of which I’ve seen,” he said.
Raddatz followed up by reading from Ukraine’s initial readout of
the call and asked whether it’s “perfectly fine” to ask a foreign leader
to investigate a political opponent. “I think I saw a statement from the
Ukrainian foreign minister that said there was no pressure applied in
the course of the conversation,” Pompeo said, adding that Biden is the
one who should be investigated. Asked if Trump should release notes
from the call, which he would do a few days later, Pompeo said
“there’s no evidence” that it would be “appropriate” to do so.
All the while, he knew exactly what the president had said.
- James Hohmann
October 1, 2019
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...impeachment-inquiry/5d92da5b88e0fa4b0ec247b9/
Pompeo’s strategy for Democratic investigations:
Brazen obstruction
BREAKING: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says in a letter to
the House Foreign Affairs Committee that Democrats are trying
to “intimidate” and “bully” State Department employees and that
depositions scheduled by
the panel are “not feasible.
—@AP
9/30/2019
This is the level of Trump defenses the GOP is trotting out
right now
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson to @WTMJSteve today on Ukraine call:
“He’s a New York business guy, he’s different than a Wisconsinite.
When he says it’s a beautiful phone call, I take a look at that,
that it’s a pretty gracious phone call.”
—@MollyBeck
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019...ral-trump-ukraine-impeachment-conspiracy.html
Intelligence Community’s inspector general, Trump appointee
Michael Atkinson, posted a short statement online correcting
Davis. Using heavily bureaucratized language and the patient
and polite tone city officials use to assure the local gadfly that
the water department is not sending alien nodes through his
plumbing, the I.G. made a few basic points. First, the rules
governing whistle-blowers have not changed. At all.
Second, the I.G. had developed a new form for whistle-blowers to use
to file their complaints because the old form may have been confusing.
(“[C]ertain language in those forms and, more specifically, the informational
materials accompanying the forms, could be read — incorrectly — as
suggesting that whistleblowers must possess first-hand information.”)
That’s the change Davis seized upon — a clarification of the wording
in the submission form, not a change in the requirement.
Third, Atkinson noted that the entire issue is moot because the Trump
whistle-blower did have firsthand knowledge-
(“The whistleblower stated on the form that he or she possessed both
first-hand and other information.”) So no, the law was not changed
to allow complaints without firsthand knowledge. And no, this
wouldn’t have mattered anyway, because the whistle-blower
did have firsthand knowledge.
"In a rational world..."
"...the Federalistas would be quietly slinking away and changing the subject."
But in the actual world, they are continuing to insist they
were right all along. The Federalist reporting team has not
even developed its own alternative sources. Instead, they
are plucking out sentences from the I.G. report that was
written to correct their errors and claiming them as vindication.
Lots of people not reading actual text of ICIG statement.
The statement admits that forms were changed, as reported.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) September 30, 2019
More Mollie, more cringe
Mollie ✓
Twitter › MZHemingway
Our corporate media are arguing that the debunked Russia hoax
that they helped other Democratic leaders and operatives perpetrate
should have been allowed to cause problems for three years but can't
be investigated. I'm sure they'd like that to be the case but the truth
must out.
20 hours ago
Do not thank me, thank Jonathan Chait.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019...ral-trump-ukraine-impeachment-conspiracy.html
THE CREDIBILITY GAP:
-- On ABC’s “This Week” the Sunday before last, host
Martha Raddatz asked Pompeo directly about his knowledge
of Trump’s conversation with Zelensky. The secretary deflected
and replied that she was asking him about the whistleblower report.
“None of which I’ve seen,” he said.
Raddatz followed up by reading from Ukraine’s initial readout of
the call and asked whether it’s “perfectly fine” to ask a foreign leader
to investigate a political opponent. “I think I saw a statement from the
Ukrainian foreign minister that said there was no pressure applied in
the course of the conversation,” Pompeo said, adding that Biden is the
one who should be investigated. Asked if Trump should release notes
from the call, which he would do a few days later, Pompeo said
“there’s no evidence” that it would be “appropriate” to do so.
All the while, he knew exactly what the president had said.
- James Hohmann
October 1, 2019
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...impeachment-inquiry/5d92da5b88e0fa4b0ec247b9/
Pompeo’s strategy for Democratic investigations:
Brazen obstruction
BREAKING: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says in a letter to
the House Foreign Affairs Committee that Democrats are trying
to “intimidate” and “bully” State Department employees and that
depositions scheduled by
the panel are “not feasible.
—@AP
9/30/2019
This is the level of Trump defenses the GOP is trotting out
right now
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson to @WTMJSteve today on Ukraine call:
“He’s a New York business guy, he’s different than a Wisconsinite.
When he says it’s a beautiful phone call, I take a look at that,
that it’s a pretty gracious phone call.”
—@MollyBeck
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019...ral-trump-ukraine-impeachment-conspiracy.html
