Is Hysteria Over Whistleblower A Distraction From Biden’s Ukraine Policy?
Much of the discussion of the whistblower complaint has been centered on amplifying and condemning Trump’s behavior without much mention of what Joe Biden’s son was doing in Ukraine. That's likely on purpose.
By Erielle Davidson
September 23, 2019
President Trump has come under fire for a whistleblower complaint that alleges the president repeatedly urged Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelensky to work with Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani to investigate the son of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in a July phone call. Much of the coverage of the whistleblower complaint has focused upon Trump’s potential impropriety. Some Democrats, such as House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), have hysterically claimed that impeachment may be the only answer to Trump’s refusal to make the complaint and phone call transcript public.
This framing leaves out a few key pieces of information that, if included, would paint a vastly different picture. For instance, buried halfway through this CNN article is the fact that the complaint, filed with the intelligence inspector general, was deemed by the administration to have failed to meet the reporting requirements of the intelligence whistleblower law.
Why? Because the complaint was based on hearsay. According to an official briefed on the matter, the whistleblower “didn’t have direct knowledge of the communications.†Instead, the information in the complaint apparently came from “learning information that was not obtained during the course of their work.†This fact is why, despite the inspector general signing off the complaint as “urgent and credible,†the director of national intelligence did not forward the complaint to Congress.
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https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/23/is-hysteria-over-whistleblower-a-distraction-from-bidens-ukraine-policy/
