President Donald Trump's promise to a foreign leader so troubled an official in the U.S. intelligence community that it prompted them to file a whistleblower complaint, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday. The Post, which cited two former officials familiar with the matter, said it was not
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's promise to a foreign leader so troubled an official in the U.S. intelligence community that it prompted them to file a whistleblower complaint, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson determined that the complaint was credible and troubling enough to be considered a matter of"urgent concern," a legal threshold that requires notification of congressional oversight committees, the Post said. Maguire has defended his refusal by asserting that the subject of the complaint is beyond his jurisdiction, the Post said.
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