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
and once again, this is an allegation that has been made. it does not necessarily mean that that is a true statement. the allegation was determined to be urgent and credible by the inspector general. is that right? yes, it was. would you also want to know considering that you are the director of national intelligence and transcripts are being moved to a secret intelligence system, whether other transcripts, perhaps the president s phone calls with vladimir putin, with mbs of vapor erdogan of turkey or kim jong-un, would you want to know if those were also being improperly moved because the president is trying to cover up something? congressman, how the white house, the executive office of the president and the national security council conduct their business, is their business. it s actually your business to protect america s secrets? it s all of ours. this committee as well. if there s coverup activity because the president is working
that doesn t mean this time won t be more substantiated. you know, i can t keep guessing what s going to work or not work. i just have to stay focused on being positive and trying to push a positive message forward and wait until there s actual concrete proof. you say you take some comfort in the australian side of this. do you trust that those in charge will ever be able to provide you with the clearances that you want and you well deserve? no, i don t, because we haven t seen any evidence of transparency or full competence so far. and given the symptoms at least that we can see of what appears to be a bit of a coverup activity, whether that s to avoid embarrassment or to relieve a liability, i don t know. but in the end, i don t trust