JUburton wrote:Only took like 225 years for an executive branch to figure out that you can do whatever the fuck you want when you're the one controlling all of the enforcement arms.

momadance wrote:The briefing is over. The DOJ won't allow the IG to hand over the complaint.

SCHIFF: “We do not have the complaint. We do not know whether the press reports are accurate or inaccurate.”

JUburton wrote:Only took like 225 years for an executive branch to figure out that you can do whatever the fuck you want when you're the one controlling all of the enforcement arms.

momadance wrote:Schiff: The IG is trying to follow the law and is not being authorized by DNI and DOJ to share complaint with Congress. “Someone is trying to manipulate the system” to keep complaint from Congress.

WASHINGTON — 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.

Uncle Milty wrote:We won't have to worry about immigration when nobody wants to move here anymore.

Guess I should learn the words to Oh Cananda

Houshphandzadeh wrote:prison

Werthless wrote:

JUburton wrote:Only took like 225 years for an executive branch to figure out that you can do whatever the fuck you want when you're the one controlling all of the enforcement arms.

Or, when your system relies on the principles of the people acting within it. That is a systemic weakness that is hard to protect against proactively, although we've done a good job thus far as a country.

JFLNYC wrote:I’m not sure this whistleblower would go to prison just for blowing the whistle in public on this conduct. The point of the whistleblower law is to allow reports without the whistleblower fearing retribution. If this person were also to divulge classified info or commit some other crime that’s another case. But, at least right now, we know only that this person is using the whistleblower law to report some activity and to do so without retribution, not necessarily to divulge classified info.