Mark Levin just released a new post debunking the allegations being made by leftists in the media with respect to the so-called whistleblower complaint.
The leftwing kooks in and out of media are making truly insane allegations, which mostly parrot the rogue CIA operative’s political screed. They include:
1. The administration hid the transcript on a classified secure server. Hid it from whom? Uh, the transcript was never supposed to be made public. It wasn’t hidden it was secured.
He’s right – it was secured. Natasha Bertrand with Politico confirmed yesterday that the White House has been securing these transcripts since 2017:
NEW: Former Trump official confirms that WH started placing Trump call transcripts into NSC’s codeword system—effectively concealing them—sometime after Mexico, Australia transcript leaks in 2017.
Experts say doing that poses whole host of natsec risks. https://t.co/WpcngAUS1K— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) September 26, 2019
Levin continues…
2. The administration covered up the rogue CIA operative’s political screed by not turning it over to Congress in 14-days. Uh, the document had to be vetted by executive branch lawyers, including White House counsel and DOJ/OLC to determine whether executive privilege would be asserted. Nonetheless, the president ordered it released. Some coverup.
Exactly. As we heard from the Acting DNI yesterday, executive privilege had to be settled before anything about this complaint could be released. And then Trump declassified and released it. What more could Democrats want?
Levin continues…
3. The administration broke the law by waiting a short period beyond the 14-days to provide the document. Well, nobody broke the law. The law says “shall” but the “urgent” language doesn’t even apply to a situation like this, where neither the individual mentioned in the document (the President) or the matter mentioned in the document meet the statutory definition.
In order for the “shall” and “urgent” to apply to this document, it would have had to pertain to “intelligence activity” which it did not.
AND it would have had to be “reliable first-hand knowledge”, which it was not.
IC IG ICWPA Form 401 dated 24 May 2018 requires “urgent concerns” to be about an “intelligence activity,” be “reliable first-hand knowledge,” and not be “second-hand knowledge.” pic.twitter.com/v8F4APkoiL
— Pedro Israel Orta (@PedroIsraelOrta) September 23, 2019
And lastly from Levin…
Meanwhile, the rogue CIA operative is clearly a political partisan (just read his screed), his lawyer is a political partisan, he witnessed absolutely nothing, his screed was written with direction and assistance by lawyers, his screed makes over the top allegations relating to policy, and his identity is concealed (how convenient). Some “courageous” whistleblower!
I do think this is true and it will all be exposed when the identity of this fake whistleblower is revealed.
For what it’s worth, Ben Shapiro has a similar take…
Doesn’t this story completely undercut the Democrats’ and “cover-up” story? It states openly that shielding foreign call transcripts from internal review has been regular practice for years thanks to fear of leaks, not fear of discovery of lawbreaking.p https://t.co/Nq2OVSofoQ
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) September 27, 2019
So far, there’s no evidence of a cover-up (both the transcript and the whistleblower complaint are public), no evidence of quid pro quo (multiple reports state that the Ukrainians didn’t even know military aid was being withheld). So what exactly is the theory of impeachment?
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) September 27, 2019