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
really look at how bad this is. but probably the most important thing they have to ask, what else was inappropriately put on the secret server. if you start taking official documents and you start putting them on the secret server to avoid oversight, that is a problem. this is no different than richard nixon s tapes. this is trying to hide information from the american public that the people who are trying to cover up for the president want to in fact keep out of the public eye. so that is why ky just say right now, i love whistleblowers. i spent a lot of time in the senate working on behalf of whistleblowers and inspectors general. i m a former auditor. protecting them, making sure that they were never compromised, making sure inspectors general have the authority they needed to go where they needed to go and shine a bright lilt. if it were not for the