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McConnell Faults Dems For Taking Intel Whistleblower Complaint Public

Reports that President Donald Trump repeatedly pressured the president of Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden’s son have roiled Washington for days, after news of an intelligence community whistleblower complaint about the incident surfaced last week.

But on Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) suggested he was upset that Democrats were even discussing the complaint publicly.



Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Democrats were the reason the story was front page news, McConnell said.

“I’ve been disappointed to see our colleague, the Democratic leader, choose to politicize the [Senate Intelligence] Committee’s ongoing efforts with respect to a recent whistleblower allegation, the specific subject of which is still unknown,” McConnell said.

The complaint to the intelligence community’s inspector general, Michael Atkinson, is now being blocked from release to Congress by Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire.

McConnell contrasted Democrats’ alarm about the complaint — and Maguire’s handling of it — with the Senate Intelligence Committee, which, he described as working “on a bipartisan basis, in secure settings, out of the public spotlight, to conduct critically important oversight of classified and sensitive matters.”

Noting that the committee was working to get Atkinson and Maguire before the committee this week, McConnell suggested Democrats, not Maguire, had broken the rules.

“I believe it’s extremely important that their work be handled in a secure setting, with adequate protections, in a bipartisan fashion,” he said of the intelligence committee, “and based on facts rather than leaks to the press.”

Maguire refused to comply with a House subpoena to hand over the complaint last week. Before that, he wrote to both the House and Senate Intelligence Committees that he was withholding the complaint from Congress, despite the Atkinson’s belief that Congress should see it.

“It is regrettable,” McConnell continued, “that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Schiff and Senator Schumer have chosen to politicize the issue, circumventing the established procedures and protocols that exist so the committees can pursue sensitive matters the appropriate, deliberate, bipartisan manner.”
 

All Of A Sudden, Pelosi And Moderates Hurtling Towards Impeachment

As swing-district House Democrats move decisively towards impeachment, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is looking more open to the prospect that she ever has.

Seven purple-district Democrats penned a letter in the Washington Post Mondaycalling President Donald Trump’s actions with the Ukrainian President an “impeachable offense.” While not quite committing to impeachment proceedings, they expressed a decided openness to the prospect.

On Pelosi’s part, she has long resisted the siren song of impeachment out of concern for those same freshmen, to protect her members from districts that aren’t clamoring for the President’s political blood. Now that at least some of them are going out on that limb, she’s free to to follow.

According to Politico, she will meet with committee chairmen, and then the full caucus on Tuesday to figure out next steps.

The hearing on Thursday, where acting DNI Joseph Maguire will go before the House Intelligence Committee to discuss the whistleblower’s withheld testimony, is now seen as the deciding factor in how to move forward. If the administration continues to obstruct Congress from fulfilling its oversight duties, Democrats will likely be spurred to take extreme action.

So far, President Donald Trump has admitted to speaking on the phone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in late July about former Vice President Joe Biden and “corruption.” The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump pressured Zelensky “about eight times” to dig up political dirt on Hunter Biden in the course of the call. And though Trump denied it just Monday, hours later the Washington Post reported that he did ask then-acting OMB Director Mick Mulvaney to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars of aid to use as leverage in the days before the conversation.

Less is known about the whistleblower’s blocked testimony — the complaint concerns a promise Trump made to a foreign leader, believed to be Zelensky.
 
I see all this posturing now from the Dems and everyone... but I’ve seen this song and dance before. We’ll see but 9 times out of 10 Trump gets away with some blatant bullshit. Now that the election almost a year out they way puff they chests out. Alright then..
 
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