Thank you. Ms. Divine. Thank you, mr. Maguire, for being here. We appreciate your life of Public Service. My question relates to prior to the transmission on august 26 from the ig to the dni, were there any conversations that you had with the ig prior to august 26 related to this matter . Congresswoman, theres been a lot thats happened in the last several weeks. As far as the timeline is concerned, i think that id like to get back to you and give you a full chronology if i may on the actual timeline of events. That would be very helpful to this committee in terms of, if there were any preliminary conversation, what was discussed and if there was any action taken as a result of those conversations. I want to turn to the complaint itself which is made public for the American Public to read. Let me preface this by saying i greatly appreciate your statement that you believe the whistleblower is operating in
good faith. I think thats very important for americans to hear. But on page one, an
that scheme. the president at that time, not in dispute, was withholding $391 million of assistance, holding that over that ukrainian president s head. that ukrainian president raises in the conversation u.s. military systems, javelin, defensive weapons. he has russian troops in his country. the wolf is at the door. the president asks for a favor, complains about ukrainian reciprocity, not getting enough from you. that s what reciprocity is, right? we ve got to get something from you if we re giving something to you. he names the political opponent by name, the bidens. the ukrainian president says he ll do it, he ll do the investigation. that s what you re hit with. you re looking at that complaint, that in the second paragraph alleges serious
forces across the globe. you had literally tens of thousands of u.s. military systems that couldn t navigate. that was a glitch. take that, move it into war. that s the impact of the kind of conflicts that might happen if you lose space. just as threatening to the military, the loss of communication satellites. that s the one that to me is very scary. general shelton worries about this dire scenario. the loss of command and control for the largest military ever assembled. for troops on the ground, in danger. troops on the ground in danger, and also when the president needs to give execute orders to the deployed force. ground, anything else? we re good to go, sir. at buckley air force base in aurora, colorado, they re scrambling to respond to a far more dangerous reality. the loss of early warning of nuclear attack, preventing our military from responding in
this gargantuan apparatus, what would it look like without space, if that light switch were switched off because of a comprehensive attack? it looks like vietnam. it looks like the korean war. it looks like it s industrial age warfare. the u.s. military got an alarming taste of life without space in 2010, when a technical glitch in the gps system caused devastating problems for u.s. forces across the globe. you had literally tens of thousands of u.s. military systems that couldn t navigate. that was a glitch. take that, move it into war. that s the impact of the kind of conflicts that might happen if you lose space. just as threatening to the military, the loss of communication satellites. that s the one that to me is very scary. general shelton worries about this dire scenario.