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 is not in dispute i suppose you could look at the whistleblower allegations about locking down the notes as being uninvestigated, but that is only because doj refused to investigate it. i mean, the fact pattern, the danger for democrats to me right now would steam to be muddying this up with too much granularity. donald trump south oght to run foreign policy the way tony soprano did but less eloquently. and there is a big circle here and clearly a lot of people are involved. at the least we know on the periphery. we don t know to what extent. if you start to pull all those in and get all that, do we get bogged down, do we get into another month s long mueller situation where this complaint that we see this morning in and of itself is enough to go forward. and the one there are so many places that you can light to