The director of national intelligence will reportedly be transmitting the Trump-related whistleblower complaint to the House and Senate intelligence committees Wednesday at 4:00 PM ET. The development was announced on the House floor by the ranking member of the Intelligence Committee, Rep. Devin Nunes.
“In fact, the DNI is going to transmit the complaint to the intelligence committee spaces where all the intelligence committee members will have the opportunity to read it,” Nunes said, objecting to taking a House vote on release of the complaint. The claim has been confirmed by multiple sources now.
Acting DNI Joseph Maguire is set to testify before the House and Senate intelligence panels on Thursday. House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff said Wednesday that one of the chief focuses of that hearing would be exploring why Maguire did not originally transmit the complaint to Congress, but instead abided by a Justice Department opinion that the complaint didn’t fall under his jurisdiction.
The Washington Post is reporting that Maguire has allegedly threatened to resign from his post if the White House prevents him from sharing details of the complaint with Congress during the open and closed-door sessions. Maguire’s move was supposedly an effort “to force the White House to make an explicit legal decision on whether it was going to assert executive privilege over the whistleblower complaint.”
But within hours of that reporting, Maguire denied the whole thing.
Interesting.
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