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The Memo: 'Whistleblower' furor gains steam | TheHill

posted onSeptember 22, 2019
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Article snippet: An air of crisis is enveloping Washington over allegations from a whistleblower against MORE over his dealings with a foreign government. The specifics of the complaint are still unclear — something that irks Trump’s critics and supporters alike — but dealings with Ukraine appear to form a major part of it. The furor is also deepening because of Democratic outrage that the administration has blocked details of the complaint from being made available, even on a classified basis, to members of Congress. The Washington Post initially broke the story that an unnamed intelligence official had been so disquieted by a “promise” Trump had made to a foreign leader that he or she had taken the extraordinary step of filing an official whistleblower complaint against the president. The inspector general of the intelligence community, Michael Atkinson, had determined the complaint to be credible and urgent, the Post reported. New details have leaked out to other news outlets since then, deepening the dangers for Trump, whose critics are already alleging that he may have been involved in a quid-pro-quo deal. “We are getting deeper and deeper into a crisis, and I think at this point we are beyond a constitutional crisis,” Rep. MORE (D-N.Y.) told reporters on Friday. “This is a threat to the very sovereignty of the United States.” Others are questioning whether the crisis could be serious enough to finally shake congressional Republicans to reconsider their hitherto-unflinching ... Link to the full article to read more

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