Congress is denied access to a whistleblower's 'serious' and 'urgent' complaint about incidents including a conversation between President Trump and a foreign leader.
The Trump administration plunged into an extraordinary showdown with Congress over access to a whistleblower’s complaint about reported incidents, including a private conversation between President Trump and a foreign leader. The blocked complaint is “serious” and “urgent,” the government’s intelligence watchdog said.
Trump, though giving no details about any incident, denied Thursday that he would ever “say something inappropriate” on such a call.Rep. Adam B. Schiff , chairman of the intelligence committee, said he was prepared to go to court to try to force the Trump administration to open up about the complaint.
Because the administration is claiming the information is privileged, Schiff said he believes the whistleblower’s complaint “likely involves the president or people around him.”“Another Fake News story out there — It never ends!” Trump tweeted. “Virtually anytime I speak on the phone to a foreign leader, I understand that there may be many people listening from various U.S. agencies, not to mention those from the other country itself.
Among the materials Democrats have sought in that investigation is the transcript of a phone call Trump had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on July 25. Atkinson wrote in letters that Schiff released Thursday that he and Maguire had hit an “impasse” over the acting director’s decision not to share the complaint with Congress.
Illinois Rep. Mike Quigley, a member of the panel, said Atkinson said that the complaint was “based on a series of events.”
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