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... the intelligence field and has spoken to the intelligence community's internal watchdog. The original whistleblower, a CIA officer, filed a formal complaint with the inspector general in August that triggered the impeachment inquiry. The document alleged that Trump had used a July telephone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy ...
Aug 12 A whistleblower complaint is filed to the Inspector General for the Intelligence Community, Michael Atkinson. Sept 1 Zelensky meets with Vice President Mike Pence in Poland after Trump stays back to monitor Hurricane Dorian. Sept 9 Sondland exchanges texts with U.S. Charge d’Affaires for Ukraine, Bill ...
... down as special envoy to Ukraine after the impeachment inquiry had begun. On Friday, investigators in Congress heard again from Michael Atkinson, the intelligence community inspector general who brought forward the whistleblower complaint of Trump's call with the Ukraine president that sparked the impeachment inquiry. Trump repeated on Friday ...
... conditioned on investigations?" Sondland doesn't say. He responds, "Call me." Just over a week later, on September 9, a few things happen. The intelligence inspector general notifies Congress about the whistle-blower complaint, and House Democrats announce they are investigating the Ukraine issue. That day, Bill Taylor, the top ...
... responded with a letter of her own. She said the Constitution doesn't require a House vote before proceeding with an impeachment inquiry. Tomorrow, the inspector general of the intelligence community, Michael Atkinson, is scheduled to go behind closed doors with the House Intelligence Committee to discuss the whistle-blower ...
... Congress is out of town. So it was staffers and one member of Congress who attended this briefing. And in that, the State Department attorney general -- inspector general, as Yamiche has reported, brought sort of some documents having to do with this whole Ukraine discussion. What were those documents? Those ...
... occurrence for whistleblowers to seek guidance from the committee. “Consistent with the committee’s longstanding procedures, committee staff appropriately advised the whistleblower to contact an inspector general and to seek legal counsel,” Boland said. Other congressional committees follow a similar process. The New York Times first reported the interaction. The ...
... founder and general counsel for the National Whistleblower Center, an advocacy group.The protocol is for an intelligence official to file a complaint with the inspector general who is expected to refer the matter to the director of national intelligence. In this case, the inspector general alerted the House Intelligence ...
... memo to committee members Wednesday that the action is necessary because the White House has ignored multiple requests. Given the “stark and urgent warnings” the inspector general for the intelligence community has delivered to Congress, Cummings said, the panel has “no choice but to issue this subpoena.” The subpoena is ...
... seeking help from the new Ukrainian president in investigating Democratic political rival Joe Biden and Biden's son Hunter. On Wednesday, the State Department's inspector general is expected to brief congressional staff from several House and Senate appropriations, oversight, foreign affairs and intelligence committees on their requests for information ...
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