When Elwood and Eisenberg spoke with DOJ, no one on the phone had seen the whistleblower's formal complaint to the inspector general of the intelligence community, which had been submitted two days before the call and was still a secret. The issue of campaign finance law was not part of their deliberations, the officials said.It is illegal for Americans to solicit foreign contributions to political campaigns.
Text messages turned over to Congress Thursday night, in which diplomats appear to suggest there was a linkage between aid and Ukraine's willingness to investigate a case involving Joe Biden, were not examined as part of the Justice Department's review, officials said, adding that they conducted purely a legal analysis.
Kupec declined to comment on whether the Justice Department was investigating any other aspect of the Ukraine matter. There has been no public indication, however, of any such investigation."They are not by any stretch of the imagination limited to the referral," said Chuck Rosenberg, an NBC News contributor and former U.S. Attorney."They have the authority — in fact, they have the obligation — to look more deeply and more broadly and bring whatever charges are appropriate.
But when he first passed on his concerns, they were not so specific, officials said. He first complained at his own agency, sending word through a colleague to a CIA lawyer. The complaint eventually reached the spy agency's top lawyer, Elwood, officials said. After consulting with others at their respective agencies and learning more details about the complaint, Elwood and Eisenberg alerted the DOJ's Demers, during the Aug. 14 phone call, in what Elwood considered to be a criminal referral. Demers read the transcript of the July 25 call, officials said, on August 15.
At the end of August, the acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire, sent the Justice Department his own criminal referral based on the whistleblower complaint, he has confirmed.
Answering the question of why the JD didn't and wouldn't open an investigation: Cuz AG BB is inside DT's right hand pocket! DUH!😂🤣
Very strange how a criminal referral is not a criminal referral when Barr is on the receiving end.
This situation is posing great danger to the called, whistle-blower, who may be of a hierarchical order above the human life, a spiritual body of type. This situation is resolved only through spiritual means, through a type of a continuous exchanged called spiritual crucifixion!
She considered? And US officials? Is that the best propaganda you can do?
The deep state at work! Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election by colluding with the Democrats, and not Trump Russia. Ukraine is the real story, Russia is the coverup! Wake up Americans
Everyone in this administration is a corrupt, hypocritical gas bag.
When will articles of impeachment be brought against AG Barr?
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Probably Trump’s “personal attorney” Bill Barr
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Lawyer.... is there even a whistleblower?
Maybe Dumbo Donnie should have been just a bit respectful when he stood in front of the CIA Wall of Honor.
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The move by the CIA's general counsel, Courtney Simmons Elwood, meant she and other sr. officials had concluded a potential crime had been committed, raising more questions about why Justice Dept. later closed the case without conducting an investigation.
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