The intelligence community inspector general deemed a whistleblower complaint about a “promise” Trump made to a foreign power to be of such “urgent concern” that he informed Congress of the complaint’s existence himself rather than trust intelligence leaders to do so.
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The president’s broad authorities notwithstanding, he is not entitled to flagrantly betray the basic national interest.
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Even Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire, who is now refusing to share the details of the complaint with Congress, isn’t disputing its seriousness, rather his authority to act on it given the person in question, who we now know is the president himself.
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But it IS the basic constitutional role of Congress to exercise oversight over the president on behalf of the people and it must know what potentially compromising commitments he’s made to foreign powers. That information must be provided in full to Congress one way or another.
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Which could put our national security and that of our allies in jeopardy. He has an oath to uphold so you just cannot willynilly declassify because you can. This is outrageous, he needs to be removed as the traitor he is.
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