14 thoughts on “The “Whistleblower””

1. This is such a grevious violation of trust between the IC and the White House that it would not surprise me if IC officers are barred from all access to POTUS phone calls with foreign officials.

   Yet this is essentially the gist of Section II from the complaint. Supposedly Trump was hiding things because he moved the recorded call and transcript to a different classified server to restrict access. First, that’s entirely his call to make. Second, he likely was doing it for the reasons suggested, because obviously folks in the IC community were abusing their access to such information.

   The only thing righteous here is the “whistleblower” is following proper procedure, even if communicating with certain members of Congress. So they may not face criminal charges for mishandling information. But whoever it is certainly shouldn’t hold a level of trust in the White House.

   1. Given that Trump’s phone calls to the Aussie PM and Mexican president were leaked in full the the press a while back, what possible reason could Trump have to want tighter security?

      Also, had he not done this, I have no doubt the democrats would condemn him for not doing so. “How dare he be so sloppy with classified documents!”

      1. The news today is Trump is looking for whom leaked information to the whistleblower. He ought to. I know the left doesn’t want Trump to have a successful foreign policy, but at this pace; no foreign leader will trust the US, and it won’t be because of Trump. This will ultimately hurt the United States. The leakers need to be prosecuted (if they weren’t just made up by Schiff).

2. Don’t worry. The people where “democracy dies in darkness” and “only the news that fits is printed” will make sure that Schift’s “parody” becomes the real transcript.

   “When the lie becomes fact, print the lie” seems to be one of the first things taught in J-School, or at least the one thing that sticks.

3. Max Boot attempts to beclown himself again and realizes the makeup won’t stick anymore because he’s neglected to remove any of the 8619 previous coats he’s applied.

   At least Richard Nixon had the good sense to resist releasing the “smoking gun” tape until finally forced to do so by the Supreme Court. That is because Nixon, the worst criminal to occupy the Oval Office until now, at least had a modicum of moral sense and self-awareness. He knew what he had said was wrong — he was heard plotting to use the CIA to shut down the FBI investigation of Watergate — and he realized that the tape’s release would be devastating to him.

4. So Schiff received the complaint on or around 12 August, because it says so at the top of the complaint. It wasn’t addressed to the IG, it was addressed to Schiff, who had authority to release it at anytime, because Congress is a separate branch. Trump wasn’t withholding information from the public, because the information was already in Schiff’s hands.

   The only part the White House played is allowing the release of the classified appendix information, which is all hearsay. The writer doesn’t have first hand knowledge to back the accusations, and even if they did, there is supposition that this is an abuse of power. The classified appendix adds nothing and seems to exist only to make it seem like the writer had more knowledge than they actually possessed.

   Personally, I think it reasonable that if people started sharing personal phone conversations between the President and foreign leaders, that the President would want to add security to his conversations. So long as he did so with properly classified servers, as opposed to a private email server at his personal home stored in a bathroom, I’d say he’s properly handling such data. Indeed, even the whistleblower acknowledges it might be the appropriate way to handle the data.

   This is just dumb stuff, and it is sad that addled brained Democrat voters can get so worked up by it. The biggest losers in this are Biden and Pelosi. Biden’s indiscretions are now clear for everyone to see and are being investigated. Pelosi blinked and lost her ability to control her caucus. Schiff should be a big loser, but then he already is and can’t really lose anymore than he has.

   1. Democrats?

      I have this theory for however much I am disappointed or happy about the outcome of a presidential election, the crowd-sourced decision of our electorate keeps some bad choices out of the Oval Office: Bob Dole, Al Gore, John Kerry, John McCain, Mitt Romney.

   2. Leland, I happen to agree that the biggest losers in this will be Biden and Pelosi. Biden’s poll numbers are already dropping.

      This makes me wonder; who did this and why? I suspect that Trump isn’t the real target here. The real target here is the ones who will be most hurt by the fallout.

      So, who benefits from all this? The radical wing of the Democrat party, and certain far, far left Democrat presidential candidates, one of whom (Warren) looks likely to be the frontrunner when Biden sinks due to this. That’s my current hunch at the moment, anyway.

      1. Sadly, I think socialism benefits the most. I think anyone who wants to get a socialist on the top of a ballot has no issue with this past week. The whistleblower being a member of the CIA would likely do it just for that reason. I’m sure there was help, but like the Obama era, it was just like minded bureaucrats.

5. This is the second attempted coup in the past three years. Democrats haven’t tried this hard since they assassinated Lincoln only this time, they are marshalling the full force of their power, the media, federal intelligence officers, and elected politicians.

6. An important tweet that links to a tranche of documents posted on Scribd by John Solomon, who used to be editor-in-chief of The Washington Times and now works at The Hill. He’s a top notch investigative journalist.

   BREAKING: A large cache of confidential foreign documents have just been leaked implicating Joe Biden, George Soros, Hillary Clinton and Joseph Misfud’s collusion and possible criminal activity in Ukraine.

   I only downloaded 13 of them before I hit the Scribd paywall, so I missed the e-mails by Powers, the next to last of which is titled “Lord help us all.”

   The first one is testimony from the fired Ukranian prosecutor, who among other really alarming things says the president of Ukraine had no choice but to ask for his resignation because Biden was applying too much pressure to shut down the investigations. He mentions Obama quite a bit, too.

   It sounds to me like the Democrats freaked out when the CIA agent was triggered by knowledge that the Ukraine stories could burn down the whole party.

   1. “It sounds to me like the Democrats freaked out when the CIA agent was triggered by knowledge that the Ukraine stories could burn down the whole party.”

      This is the only rationale I can think of as to why the Dems would launch this completely ludicrous impeachment travesty based upon…..nothing.

      They are afraid of what will be revealed and they are trying to head off the attack by making an attack of their own. Classic maneuver warfare stuff: to disrupt what the enemy is doing, attack something of vital interest to the enemy

7. Today’s John Solomon story in The Hill covers some of the information in the trance of documents I linked above. So a bunch of very damning evidence is now out in the public domain, and the Democrats will have to face it from here on out while they’re trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.

   Among the tidbits in Solomon’s story and document dump is that Trump didn’t approach Ukraine, Ukraine approached the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York with a massive amount of evidence about corruption in the previous US administration. SDNY wasn’t interested (probably being too focused on getting Trump’s IRS records), so the Ukrainian prosecutors brought the evidence to Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer, and to Barr. Right there the whole impeachment push would fall apart because Trump wasn’t doing it, foreign anti-corruption prosecutors were.

   According to multiple Ukrainian sources, the Ukranian prosecutor general wasn’t fired for corruption, he was forced to resign under intense pressure from Joe Biden and the US State Department, which were in bed with George Soros. In fact Hunter Biden’s own legal team apologized to the new Ukrainian prosecutor for spreading false allegations about the previous prosecutor, and then the US State Department apologized again. And the documents show big plans afoot to massively change Ukraine and get the EU to back it with, to start, 16 billion Euros to make it an attractive investment target and allow George Soros’s operations there to make a profit (according to George Soros’s long letter to top State Department officials that were also in the tranche of documents).

   This is already going south for Joe Biden, and very quickly. Today in The New York Post something was mentioned that I hadn’t even heard of:

   … Hunter once ran a hedge fund with his dad’s brother, James Biden, and associated with a notorious Ponzi schemer. James would go on to snag a job as executive vice president of a construction company in 2010, despite having virtually no experience in the field. And only a few months into his tenure, the company would win one of its biggest contracts in its history, a $1.5 billion deal to build affordable homes in Iraq.

   By pure happenstance, Joe was also the Obama administration’s point man in Iraq at the time. Funny how these things work out.

   So that’s another $1.5 billion to Hunter Biden on top of the $1.5 billion deal he got with China after flying over with his dad. There’s really no way to explain that away to anyone over the age of ten.

   But the real story seems to be all the activities in Ukraine to rig the US election in 2016, with the active help of the US State Department, Hillary, Biden, and a foreign guy whose name kept popping up in the Russian rigging narratives. The CIA would also have very likely been involved since the situation involves top level interference in a foreign country that was at war with Russia.

   As Gregg said above, all the dirt in that mess may better explain why the CIA whistle blower, Schiff, Nancy and all the Democrats suddenly freaked out like no one has seen before, like a murderer who sees a police detective nosing around in the wrong part of the yard. A narrow element of the DNC had gotten in bed with the Ukrainian government, Crowdstrike (the 2016 DNC servers are in the Ukraine, not the US), and some other dealings, not expecting the Ukrainian government to completely change hands to a Trump supporter who wants to drain the swamp and expose all the prior corruption. Like Biden apparently did regarding Ukraine, the people involved are likely lying to their allies about what’s going on, and the allies are acting based on that incorrect information put out by guilty people only concerned with protecting themselves.

   So, this is obviously a very crucial time for the Democrats to be shaping the narrative, and what do they do? Well, Nancy just sent them all on vacation for two weeks, so they won’t be doing much of anything, leaving the playing field to Trump, and just as the IG report on the FBI mess is about to come out.

   This is going to get very interesting, bordering on chaos.

   1. George, thank you for this excellent post.

      The Democrats are really going to adjourn the house for two weeks, after yammering endlessly about how urgent this all is? Wow. If so, that’s mind-blowing.

      I wonder.. what if Trump, in a few days, exercises his power (article 2, section 3) to call them back into session, insisting that they continue with this oh-so-urgent inquiry?

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