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Adam Schiff exposes Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire's involvement in the cover-up of the Whistleblower Complaint

Schiff had to repeatedly ask the same question because Maguire won’t give a straight answer. #SelfIncrimination #UkraineGate #BookEmDanno

1. By Law, Maguire is required to give Congress all Whistleblower Complaints — yet Maguire “withheld” it anyway 💣

Adam Schiff: “By law, the whistleblower complaint which brought this gross misconduct to light should have been presented to this committee weeks ago and by you, Mr. Director, under the clear letter of the law, and yet it wasn’t.”

2. Maguire “withheld” the Complaint because of Executive Privilege even though the White House NEVER asserted Executive Privilege 💣

Adam Schiff: And at any time over the last month that you held this complaint, did the White House assert executive privilege?

... Maguire squirming not to incriminate himself by saying “YES” or “NO”

Adam Schiff: So they never asserted executive privilege. Is that the answer?

Joseph Maguire: Mr. Chairman, if they did, we would not have released the letters yesterday and all the information that has been forthcoming.

3. Maguire didn’t go the DOJ for legal advice, instead he went directly to the White House 💣 Devin Nunes did the same thing with #RussiaGate ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Adam Schiff: And so the first place you went for advice as to whether you should provide the complaint as the statute requires to Congress was the White House?

...

Adam Schiff: Okay. Is the first party went to outside of your office to seek advice? A counsel direction the White House?

Joseph Maguire: I have consulted with the White House Counsel Counsel and eventually we also consulted with the Department of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel.

Adam Schiff: Well, Director, I’m still trying to understand the chronology. So you first went to the Office of Legal Counsel and then you went to White House Counsel.

Joseph Maguire: We went, excuse me. And then to the … repeat that please, sir.

Adam Schiff: I’m just trying to understand the chronology. You first went to the Office of Legal Counsel and then you went to the White House Counsel?

Joseph Maguire: No, no, no sir. No sir. No, we went to the White House first to determine, to ask the question …

Adam Schiff: Okay. That’s all I want to know is chronology. So you went to the White House first, so you went to the subject of the complaint for advice first about whether you should provide the complaint to Congress?

Joseph Maguire: There were issues within this, a couple of things. One, it did appear that it has executive privilege. If it does have executive privilege, it is the White House that determines that. I cannot determine that as the Director of National Intelligence.

💣 “But in this case, the White House, the president is the subject of the complaint. He’s the subject of the wrongdoing. Were you aware when you went to the White House for advice about whether evidence of wrongdoing by the White House should be provided to the Congress?”, Adam Schiff

Adam Schiff: Were you aware that the White House Counsel has taken the unprecedented position that the privilege applies to communications involving the president when he was president, involving the president when he wasn’t president, involving people who never served in the administration, involving people who never served in administration even when they’re not even talking to the president.

💣 “Were you aware that that is the unprecedented position of the White House, the White House that you went to for advice about whether you should turn over a complaint involving the White House?”