So the DNI is refusing to turn over the document, is not complying with a Subponea -
What happens next?
Is there an action that can be taken that does NOT need the approval of congress?
Does the refusal trigger something else? (ieg - an arrest?)
If an individual can simply “ignore” the law - then the law means nothing at all
Apparently not.
Correct. :dubious:
And in a follow up question -
If the DNI can “refuse” to provide the whistle blower complaint - could he also go outside the law and punish or take some other action against the whistle blower in retaliation?
He could, in which case someone might file a complaint with his boss.
So much for checks and balances (sigh)
But (to paraphrase the article) he was sort of OK with being bitten, because he “likes to be around winners” and that’s the price you pay. Which is sort of a metaphor for his past two and and half years.
You are ignoring the Constitutional fact of the unitary executive, wherein the three separate but equal branches are unified into a transcendent reality. This is an absolute and fundamental part of the Presidential office, and only varies depending on the worthiness of the President. Recently, GeeDubya was so endowed, then the unchanging fact was reversed, and currently is set at its natural condition, with the inauguration of Donald, of House Harkonnen, worst of his name…
Well, why did the IG tell Congress about the complaint at all, if he wasn’t prepared to provide any more information than that?!
This article was posted on The Atlantic Monthly’s website a couple of days ago. It’s about the jockeying for power and influence among Trump’s children. It suggests (surprisingly to me) that Donald Jr might be Most Likely To Succeed. Ivanka’s attempts at inserting herself in world affairs(such as at the G20 conference in Osaka) has made her a punchline.
She didn’t wear the tiara! When you got a couple of million bucks worth of diamonds on your head, your opinions have much more gravitas.
We are talking about two different people. The IG was not the one who refused to provide additional information.
Not unless the horse bit him hard in the ass, and Pence then turned around and stuffed his head so far up the horse’s ass that he could taste the breakfast oats.
Then it would be sort of a metaphor.
Which raises the question…
If the DNI refuses to supply the information, can the IG do It?
When he was elected there were memes about some duck or other filing for a legal change of name…
Or Schiff could call a hearing and subpoena the whistleblower himself.
Only if he can learn who it is.
The subpoena Trump.
The Secret Service wants jet skis so they can protect the Trumps because “The First Family is very active in water sports.” Yes, they actually said that.
I don’t think jet skis can protect him from Russian prostitutes.
So Trump admits he sometimes hits one into a water hazard, eh?
You couldn’t make that shit up :D.