Department that essentially says the president is above the director, therefore the president is not subject to the jurisdiction of the director, therefore it doesnt meet the definition of urgent concern, therefore the Inspector General is done. The Inspector General cant investigate anymore. Thats the Inspector Generals reading of the Department Opinion, that he is no longer allowed to investigate this. Is that your reading as well . Chairman, not necessarily the president , but the allegation has to relate to the funding, administration, operation of an Intelligence Activity within the responsibility and the authority of the director of National Intelligence. Okay. Im just trying to get to whether the president is somehow beyond the reach of the law. No, sir. No person in this country is beyond the reach of the law. Well, thats the way it should be but im trying to figure out whether thats the way it is as a practical fact. The Inspector General believes that based on the opinion tha
it only raises the question, what is in those transcripts and in those documents? what is it that the president said? what leaders are they with? is it just regular calls with allies? is it calls with vladimir putin? it just heightens the issue of what is tucked away in this highly classified channel in the white house. it object lit ratliterates t the white house introduced yesterday. they hid that call away with human intelligence protocols. that s right. the dni indicated it had to be intelligence activity. this is intelligence activity. when you start moving things into the intelligence system, any way you look at it, those people fall under the dni, those