Asked whether it was acceptable for acting DNI Maguire to withhold the whistleblower complaint, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says, “no, I think what the DNI did is broke the law.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday alleged that the White House engaged in a"cover-up" of the phone call President Donald Trump had with the president of Ukraine on July 25, which is the focus of a whistleblower complaint.
“According to multiple White House officials I spoke with, the transcript of the President's call with President Zelenskyy was placed into a computer system managed directly by the National Security Council Directorate for Intelligence Programs,” the whistleblower noted in a letter to Sen. Richard Burr and Rep. Adam Schiff, the respective chairs of the Senate and House Intelligence committees.
“The question came down to ‘urgent concern,’ which is a legal definition,” Maguire testified. “It doesn't mean, is it important, is it timely?” "All that did was just take away the seven days. As I said before, just because it was not forwarded to this committee does not mean that it went unanswered. The IC IG and the Justice Department referred it to the Federal [Bureau] of Investigation for investigation. And that was working while I was endeavoring to get the executive concerns addressed," Maguire continued.
"The inquiry and the consensus in our caucus is that our focus now is on this allegation -- now we are seeing the evidence of it -- and why the president thinks that this is exculpatory," Pelosi said."Maybe he doesn’t know that word; the president thinks this proves his innocence only goes to show he doesn’t know right from wrong."
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