'They are going to have to go all out to get this stuff,' former federal prosecutor Nick Akerman told Newsweek.
"The whole thing is very suspicious as to why this wouldn't be turned over unless it was incredibly damning," Akerman told. Akerman served an assistant special prosecutor in the Watergate scandal that brought down former President Richard Nixon.
"Their remedy would be to go into court and enforce the law and hold people in contempt if they don't abide by it," he said."If they want to give it a little bit more muscle power, I would have the House Judiciary Committee start looking at it in terms of their impeachment investigation. It would certainly strengthen their hand."
Democrats contend that the director of national intelligence is violating the law in refusing to turn over the complaint. Representative Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told reporters on Thursday that if they did decide to take legal action that"there is an urgency here I think the courts will recognize."
Akerman said that because the Trump administration is trying so hard to keep the information of the complaint away from the public, it's likely that the information is"really very suspect." The former federal prosecutor went so far as to suggest that Trump may have"committed treason, or done something that comes pretty close to it."
President Donald Trump waves as he exits Marine One after landing at San Diego International Airport in San Diego, California, on September 18, 2019. Trump is under fire after a whistleblower complaint was filed about his concerning promise to a foreign leader.
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