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kpete

(72,013 posts) Sun Sep 15, 2019, 06:02 PM Sep 2019

Schiff is effectively saying Trump has ordered DNI head to break the law.

A “higher authority” than the Supreme Law of the Land?! The Acting DNI must think he has divine permission to defy an indisputably constitutional Act of Congress. And that’s as scary as it is unprecedented and totally

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This is really something.@RepAdamSchiff said on CBS today that the Director of National Intelligence has told the Intel Committee that he was instructed not to turn over the whistleblower's complaint by a "higher authority":

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Schiff is effectively saying Trump has ordered DNI head to break the law. (Original Post) kpete Sep 2019 OP

This is incredibly frightening! leftieNanner Sep 2019 #1

For the good of the country SCVDem Sep 2019 #2

AGREE bluestarone Sep 2019 #4

I doubt it. I doubt the shit is going to hit the fan. pangaia Sep 2019 #8

Congressman Adam Schiff, Iliyah Sep 2019 #3

To paraphrase my mother: We' going to Hell in a hand-basket...of deplorables. FailureToCommunicate Sep 2019 #5

without doubt. and there is probably so much else we don't know yet. EveHammond13 Sep 2019 #6

KnR Hekate Sep 2019 #7

leftieNanner

(15,144 posts)

1. This is incredibly frightening!

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Sun Sep 15, 2019, 06:13 PM

Sep 2019

I hope Schiff puts this on the front burner and turns up the heat! He needs to get to the bottom of this ASAP.

I'm hoping that the IG will be called in to testify, but Barr will probably step in and say NO. Geez! How do we get over this run-around BS coming from the White House. At the very least, I hope the whistle blower him/herself calls Schiff directly.