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
administration, we are to believe that coincidentally putin is the punch line in another trumpian scandal, or once again, the president appears to be doing putin s bidding behind closed doors, another effort to damage potentially another opponent, and involving the entire white house not the entire, but a large number of white house and perhaps nsc staffers in covering it up. the near verbatim transcript released yesterday is actually a lot worse for the president than even the whistle-blower s complaint released this morning because in the near verbatim transcript released yesterday, we hear and see the president in his own words connecting defense support for ukraine with this effort to get manufactured dirt on joe biden. that actually, the fact that the united states was withholding defense support, that actually wasn t really key to the whistle-blower s allegations released this morning. what the whistle-blower did advance was there was a purposeful, months-long, very