There will be more heroic action by members of the IC, despite WH concerted efforts to obstruct the normal functioning of the whistleblower law.
We should know more soon, especially after the upcoming Senate Intel committee meeting. The problem will immediately occur when the whistleblower is forced to go directly to the House Intel committee and gets “outed” by any one of the members to the press.
Tonight, Rudy Giuliani had a meltdown with CNN’s Chris Cuomo that like other appearances seemed intended to draw attention away from the urgent credible information of the Trump phone call with a foreign leader and its pattern of misconduct that at its worse could be extortion.
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The alleged complaint will raise new questions about the president's treatment of the intelligence services and his handling of classified information. On multiple occasions, Trump has shared sensitive information with foreign representatives or the public, potentially undermining ongoing operations and national security.
In May 2017, for example, Trump told Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak about a planned ISIS operation while meeting the two men in the Oval Office. It was later reported that the information originally came from Israel, and that Trump sharing its details may have compromised Israeli assets in the country's ongoing operations against ISIS.
Other examples include when Trump told Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte that two U.S. nuclear submarines were deployed off the coast of North Korea in 2017, and in 2019 when he shared classified imagery of damage to an Iranian missile site following a failed launch there. Critics said the image could be used by adversaries to identify America's closely-guarded surveillance capabilities.