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Questionable security practices involving her e-mail communication, which turned out to not end up being certainly a legal problem at all. but an entire presidential campaign based on how dare you not use the absolute most secure high level forms of secure communication when we know that jared kushner, ivanka trump and many others in the trump administration have been using private e-mail. when we know theyve been doing exactly what they were accusing hillary clinton of doing but much, much wors...

Their most important ally. and theres the whole world knowing that president trump is calling the guy in ukraine being like ukraine you just talked to the president, am i getting my investigations? to the extent he was broadcasting that by having it on an unsecured cellphone line that means the whole world including russia knew exactly what kind of improper pressure trump was putting on that country and that alliance, which means that phone call alone hurt ukraine in their war against russia. an...

To the extent he was broadcasting that by having it on an unsecure line. that means the whole world knew what kindf of improper pressure trump was putting on that country and that alliance. which means that phone call alone hurt ukraine in their war against russia. america will have to pay for that for as long as the rest of us live. >> and this is one of those w k weeks, nights where i cant get the chant out of my head, the idea that the former secretary of state should be locked up because of ...

But in a letter to the director of national intelligence last month, senators chuck schumer and tom cotton pushed for an investigation into tik tok and other chinese-based companies stressing they could pose a national security risk. schumer told nbc news that if true, the new reports are validation of our concern that apps like tik tok that store massive amounts of personal data, accessible to foreign governments, may pose serious risks to millions of americans and deserve greater scrutiny. >> ...

Maguire. my firm represents a member of the intelligence community who has reported an urgent concern to the intelligence communitys inspector general. my client submit aid disclosure on august 12th through established procedures promulgated by law. within the statutorily manned yited period the inspector general concluded that my clients disclosure was both credible and urgent as the underlying information disclosed meets the standard set forth under law. in accordance with u.s. whistleblower l...

Understand that your client seeks guidance on how to contact and directly share information with the congressional intelligence committees in a manner consistent with appropriate security practices. because your clients complaint involves confidential and potentially privileged communications by persons outside the intelligence community, the president, we are consulting with other executive branch stakeholders before transmitting to you the guidance sought. we understand the time-sensitive natu...

As far as the office of the director of national intelligence is concerned, this whistleblower complaint, quote, does not fall within the statutory definition of an urgent concern, meaning youre not going to be protected by this process. but then it gets really interesting. the dnis letter says, quote, notwithstanding the inapplicability of the statute, it actually says statue but i think he means statute. "notwithstanding the inapplicability of the statute to the present situation, we understan...

To contact the congressional intelligence committees directly. accordingly i request direction on doing so in accordance with appropriate security practices. i thank you in advance for your time and attention to this matter and i look forward to your forthcoming guidance. so thats dated today, a letter from the whistleblowers lawyer to the dni, the director of national intelligence. the director of national intelligence has now written back in a letter thats dated today. it starts off by saying ...

Even though the director of national intelligence was under no obligation to transmit complaints that did not meet the definition of urgent concern or were not credible, even those complaints were routinely forwarded to the intelligence committees. the inspector general added, "past practice permitted complainants in the intelligence community to contact the congressional intelligence y committees directly in an authorized and protected manner as intended by the urgent concern statue. i am conti...

Of the most significant and important of the dnis responsibilities to the american people. in addition, it appears to me that the acting dni has no present intention of providing direction to the complainant through me on how the complainant can contact the congressional intelligence committees directly in accordance with appropriate security practices." leading off our discussion tonight is democratic congressman raja krishnamoorthi from illinois. hes a member of the house intelligence committe...