'[T]he President’s dead of night decision puts our country and national security at even greater risk,' said Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, after news broke th
In September, Atkinson told the intelligence committees about the existence of the whistleblower complaint, which alleged that the president has misused the powers of his office to pressure the Ukrainian government to announce an investigation into former vice president Joe Biden. Atkinson had found the complaint to be credible, but Joseph Maguire, then the acting director of national intelligence, blocked it from being sent to Congress.
The move received immediate backlash from the Democratic leaders of the intelligence committees. Congress is currently in recess until at least late April as the nation grapples with the coronavirus pandemic. Rep. Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, called the decision “yet another blatant attempt by the President to gut the independence of the Intelligence Community and retaliate against those who dare to expose presidential wrongdoing.
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