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Mass media has another try to take down President Trump

By David Singer - posted Friday, 4 October 2019


(ii) An employee may contact the congressional intelligence committees directly as described in clause (i) only if the employee-

(I) before making such a contact, furnishes to the Director, through the Inspector General, a statement of the employee's complaint or information and notice of the employee's intent to contact the congressional intelligence committees directly; and

(II) obtains and follows from the Director, through the Inspector General, direction on how to contact the congressional intelligence committees in accordance with appropriate security practices.

Failure to comply with these strict reporting procedures resulted in a State Department official, Mr. T. Ulrich Brechbuhl, being outed in the complaint as having listened in on President Trump's call with President Zelenskyy.

Had the complaint been lodged lawfully - Schiff may never have seen the complaint whilst Brechbuhl's name and maybe other parts of the complaint could have been redacted.

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Schiff seemingly had received the complaint unlawfully on 12 August – yet in the New York Times on 17 September Schiff was demanding acting director of national intelligence Joseph Maguire:

...turn over a whistle-blower complaint made to the inspector general for the intelligence agencies.

Schiff's public grilling of Maguire before the House Intelligence Committee on why due process was not followed was a sham and seemingly an abuse of his power as Committee Chairman.

Schiff's questionable conduct closely follows Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report vindicating the dismissal of former FBI Director James Comey for leaking to the mass media.

Another sentence not highlighted and annotated by the New York Times stated:

One White House official described this act as an abuse of this electronic system because the call did not contain anything remotely sensitive from a national security perspective.

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False, inaccurate and unfair reporting about this whistleblower's complaint will continue notwithstanding – as more readers and viewers of the mass media defect in droves seeking far more credible news and analysis elsewhere.

The mass media has again become the media massed against Trump.

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David Singer is an Australian Lawyer, a Foundation Member of the International Analyst Network and Convenor of Jordan is Palestine International - an organisation calling for sovereignty of the West Bank and Gaza to be allocated between Israel and Jordan as the two successor States to the Mandate for Palestine. Previous articles written by him can be found at www.jordanispalestine.blogspot.com.

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