Red Mosquito

cutuphalfdead wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:Someone take the phone away from him

I'm a people person!

cutuphalfdead wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:Someone take the phone away from him

I'm a people person!

Simple Torture wrote:Outrages.

McParadigm wrote:So Trump’s gonna cry procedural fowl and presumably declare non-cooperation without a vote first, yeah? I assume that’s what he’s doing? And then Pompeo will blow past his deadline and Dems will have to decide if they’re prepared to start consequencing people for refusing documents.

bune wrote:

McParadigm wrote:So Trump’s gonna cry procedural fowl and presumably declare non-cooperation without a vote first, yeah? I assume that’s what he’s doing? And then Pompeo will blow past his deadline and Dems will have to decide if they’re prepared to start consequencing people for refusing documents.

Did Trump write this for you?

WASHINGTON — Weeks before the whistleblower's complaint became public, the CIA's top lawyer made what she considered a criminal referral to the Justice Department about the whistleblower's allegations that President Donald Trump abused his office in pressuring the Ukrainian president, U.S. officials familiar with the matter tell NBC News.

The move by the CIA's general counsel, Trump appointee Courtney Simmons Elwood, meant she and other senior officials had concluded a potential crime had been committed, raising more questions about why the Justice Department later closed the case without conducting an investigation.

In the days since an anonymous whistleblower complaint was made public accusing him of wrongdoing, President Trump has lashed out at his accuser and other insiders who provided the accuser with information, suggesting they were improperly spying on what was a "perfect" call between him and the Ukrainian president. But a timeline provided by U.S. officials familiar with the matter shows that multiple senior government officials appointed by Trump found the whistleblower's complaints credible, troubling, and worthy of further inquiry starting soon after the president's July phone call.

While that timeline and the CIA general counsel's contact with the DOJ has been previously disclosed, it has not been reported that the CIA's top lawyer intended the call to be to make a criminal referral about the president's conduct, acting under rules set forth in a memo governing how intelligence agencies should report allegations of federal crimes.

wease wrote:Ellen Weintraub is gonna end up being the one to save the day for anyone against Trump.

tragabigzanda wrote:

wease wrote:Ellen Weintraub is gonna end up being the one to save the day for anyone against Trump.

She is certainly becoming an important player. The idea that a bunch of career civil servants might be the ones to get him out of office (rather than Schiff and the like) gives me a massive boner.

McParadigm wrote:NBC

WASHINGTON — Weeks before the whistleblower's complaint became public, the CIA's top lawyer made what she considered a criminal referral to the Justice Department about the whistleblower's allegations that President Donald Trump abused his office in pressuring the Ukrainian president, U.S. officials familiar with the matter tell NBC News.

The move by the CIA's general counsel, Trump appointee Courtney Simmons Elwood, meant she and other senior officials had concluded a potential crime had been committed, raising more questions about why the Justice Department later closed the case without conducting an investigation.

In the days since an anonymous whistleblower complaint was made public accusing him of wrongdoing, President Trump has lashed out at his accuser and other insiders who provided the accuser with information, suggesting they were improperly spying on what was a "perfect" call between him and the Ukrainian president. But a timeline provided by U.S. officials familiar with the matter shows that multiple senior government officials appointed by Trump found the whistleblower's complaints credible, troubling, and worthy of further inquiry starting soon after the president's July phone call.

While that timeline and the CIA general counsel's contact with the DOJ has been previously disclosed, it has not been reported that the CIA's top lawyer intended the call to be to make a criminal referral about the president's conduct, acting under rules set forth in a memo governing how intelligence agencies should report allegations of federal crimes.

meatwad wrote:The significance is that it shows he’s a limited-intelligence person who probably has early-stage dementia.

Simple Torture wrote:I'm pretty sure the reason is that he's a raging narcissist.

durdencommatyler wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:I'm pretty sure the reason is that he's a raging narcissist.

It's the insistence on the repetition of that one word. There's some kind of specific significance.

wease wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:I'm pretty sure the reason is that he's a raging narcissist.

It's the insistence on the repetition of that one word. There's some kind of specific significance.

It's perfect.