Inspectors General Criticize OLC Whistleblower Opinion
Source: Lawfare
By Gordon Ahl Friday, October 25, 2019, 10:41 AM
Multiple federal inspectors general signed onto a letter addressed to the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), expressing their support for the determination by the inspector general of the intelligence community regarding the Ukraine whistleblower complaint as an “urgent concern.” The letter adds that the OLC opinion, which disagreed which the inspector general’s determination, potentially undermines the independence of inspectors general throughout the government and should be withdrawn or modified. The letter is available here and below.
Read more: https://www.lawfareblog.com/inspectors-general-criticize-olc-whistleblower-opinion
An unprecedented letter.
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He seems still to be working for Barr and not the people of the United States. Extraordinarily well educated (Harvard, Yale, and Cambridge I believe) he is not erring here because of ignorance. Trump and Barr -- mostly Barr, because Trump doesn't think that broadly -- know that it is necessary to undermine the truth -- and the ability of the government to ferret it out -- by any and every means available. Engel's letter represents just a small example of those means.
Engel's letter is throughly countered by the IG's based on fundamental points of law that Engel, himself, must know. His decision to ignore those fundamental points casts a shadow over his integrity and honesty and makes me think he may, just possibly*, be in with the Gang that Can't Treason Straight (as Bill Maher dubbed the Trump administration) and not at all interested in fair and objective (non-partisan) application of law.
*just kidding. Of course he's in on the efforts by Trump and Barr to undermine the will of the people, the law of the land, the freedoms that America used to brag about, and America's independence from the foreign influence of Trump's international creditors and pee-tape holders. But I digress. 
