So, you know, as claire was saying, there are so many more substantive allegations now including this misuse and abuse of a highly classified Intelligence Community Computer Network system. And for people to say that this didnt fall under the dnis purview is wrong. The dni is responsible for maintaining the integrity of those systems. And if it is being used to cover up political corruption, that requires an investigation. And whether or not the senior official was asked to hide that material inside that Computer System. So i do think that donald trump and his associates are in a heck of a lot more political trouble right now than they were 48 hours ago because of the substantive flow of these allegations coming through,
again all reinforcing the theme that this is a corrupt white house that will stoop to doing anything in order to prevail in elections as well as to cover their krucht trackcorrupt track. Weigh in on the idea that President Trump took all of the conduct detailed in the
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source. it s not as if the whistle-blower had an agreement with the press where he would remain anonymous. the press is not committed to that. if you look at the law involved, which is called the intelligence community whistle-blower protection act, it only says the the only person that can t reveal the name is the intelligence community inspector general. even he can do it if he feels that it would be impractical to conceal the name in the course of events. martha: you know, on this on the front of the developments in this story, a politco report today that lieutenant colonel vindman who we heard some of the testimony that flipped out, he said the lawyers told him not to discuss the call, that he was upset about it and that s what prompted the move of putting that phone call in its contents into that more secure server. your thoughts on that report. well, certainly democrats are trying to get the white house
wants it to be made public that s guaranteed under law, the privacy act, as well as the intelligence community whistleblower protection act. that said, firsthand knowledge really speaks to the fact that this person had direct access to the contents of the july 25th call in realtime. they didn t hear about it from somebody else. they were likely present when this call was taking place. having been on a lot of these head of state calls, that s a relatively small group, fredricka. there is white house situation room staff on that call monitoring the call and staff taking notes, as well as policy people at the white house. the nsc staff that are responsible for the country at hand, in this case ukraine. so it could be a group of those people, and we know from the whistleblower complaint itself that 12 or so white house staff, according to the complaint, were on that call. so it narrows the pool somewhat, and the question from my perspective, fredricka, is whether any of the other people
so there are two whistleblowers now involved. the second one is said to have firsthand nknowledge of this juy 25th phone call, according to this whistleblower s attorney. we do know a few things already, don t we? we do. if past is prologue, the president will try to out the second whistleblower and bully him or her just like he did with the first one despite the fact that under u.s. law these whistleblowers have the right to make what we call protected disclosures. as federal employees, they have a right to privacy under the privacy act. under the intelligence community whistleblower protection act, they are authorized to make these protected disclosures without fear of retaliation. as members of the intelligence community, that includes retaliation in terms of being fired or any negative impact on their security clearance adjudication process. this first whistleblower said that he or she was not a direct witness. the intelligence community
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