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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kind of silly to focus on the safe. Obviously everything in the DNI is going to be called national security sensitive. It's the standard way the government covers up internal corruption. [/quote]

The point is that the complaint was filed in May of last year and 8 months later the administration is still stonewalling and trying to decide how to handle the case and whether or not Congress should even be allowed to see information about the case. While whistleblower cases no doubt have occurred before involving the national intelligence agencies, it's the amount of time that has passed without dealing with the case that is unprecedented. And the comment about the safe suggests that whatever is in the complaint is a BFD and potentially hugely explosive.

"[b]The lengthy delay on sending the complaint to Congress is without known precedent[/b], according to watchdog experts and former intelligence officials. The inspector general is generally required to assess whether the complaint is credible within two weeks of receiving it, and share it with lawmakers within another week if it determines it is credible."

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why does the administration get to decide?! [/quote]

They don't, or they aren't supposed to.

Interesting story - clearly the lawyer for the whistleblower is doing a shot across the bow here.

I'm going to speculate the other agency is NSA or FBI and this involves wiretapping/intercepting communications of a US citizen, possibly a political rival or enemy, and that Trump himself ordered it. [/quote]

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