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... identified as al-Baghdadi, said. “Your brothers and sisters, do your utmost to free them and tear down the walls restricting them.”The Defense Department Inspector General also warned recently that ISIS had established “resurgent cells” in Syria. When asked whether, by leaving northeastern Syria, the United States was giving ...
The Health and Human Services inspector general's office is involved in rewriting one of the rules, which enforces an anti-kickback statute that it oversees. The other major revision involves a rule that forbids clinicians from referring patients to facilities in which they have a financial interest. That rule ...
... has “stepped up their regrouping efforts” through the women with ISIS connections who are also being held in the SDF-guarded camps. A U.S. Inspector General report from June 2019 said that ISIS “likely retains between 14,000 and 18,000 ‘members’ in Iraq and Syria, including 3,000 ...
Yamiche Alcindor: In the meantime, a second whistle-blower has entered to back up the complaint. Attorney Mark Zaid now represents both individuals. Zaid said his new client, described as another intelligence official, has been interviewed by Michael Atkinson, the intelligence community's inspector general. On Sunday, Zaid tweeted that ...
In any event, the inspector general's office said it had provided the whistleblower separate background material on submitting a complaint that included that language. Rep. Adam Schiff TRUMP: "Congressman Adam Schiff should resign for the Crime of, after reading a transcript of my conversation with the President of Ukraine ...
... 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 ...
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