Message from @Platinum Spark

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2019-09-19 17:24:09 UTC  

They dont admit that during the voting of the civil rights act of 1964, almost all democrats filibustered against it

2019-09-19 17:24:26 UTC  

LBJ was smart enough to sign it to pander to the black man's vote

2019-09-19 17:30:32 UTC  

Jesus Christ

2019-09-19 17:30:51 UTC  

Where to even begin

2019-09-19 17:31:35 UTC  

I didn’t make up the term whistleblow. That’s the legislative shorthand

2019-09-19 17:32:04 UTC  

Basically it’s a rule in place to let people pass along outside of their chain of command when a spy thinks someone is doing something they shouldn’t be

2019-09-19 17:32:20 UTC  

Whether that’s something straight up illegal, or just sketchy

2019-09-19 17:32:29 UTC  

I don't believe he was saying you made up the term

2019-09-19 17:32:30 UTC  

Now this doesn’t declassify information

2019-09-19 17:32:50 UTC  

So there’s a department, called the office of the intelligence inspector general

2019-09-19 17:33:16 UTC  

That has maximum clearance, so that without declassifying anything, they can review stuff that spies might have concerns about

2019-09-19 17:33:40 UTC  

This is really important, because foreign spy agencies try to turn US spies all the time

2019-09-19 17:34:02 UTC  

So spies pass along things, and then the IG decides what to do with them

2019-09-19 17:34:26 UTC  

That's not the department, it's part of the department of Justice

2019-09-19 17:34:33 UTC  

Now there’s a statute that says if something is a really really big deal, “an urgent concern to the security of the United States”

2019-09-19 17:34:45 UTC  

No, the intel IG is not part of he justice department

2019-09-19 17:35:05 UTC  

Yes it is

2019-09-19 17:35:07 UTC  

That’s a different office

2019-09-19 17:35:09 UTC  

No.

2019-09-19 17:35:14 UTC  

That’s a different IGA

2019-09-19 17:35:16 UTC  

Different guy

2019-09-19 17:35:24 UTC  

That’s the DOJ IG

2019-09-19 17:35:31 UTC  

The intel IG is not under the DOJ

2019-09-19 17:36:51 UTC  

So- this statute says that if it’s an “urgent concern” to the security of the United States, then the IG needs to brief the congressional intel office on it

2019-09-19 17:37:17 UTC  

In this instance, the DOJ is stepping in and trying to stop the disclosure to congress

2019-09-19 17:37:23 UTC  

Which is highly irregular

2019-09-19 17:37:31 UTC  

Since this is not a DOJ issue

2019-09-19 17:37:35 UTC  

Office of the inspector general of the intelligence community?

2019-09-19 17:37:59 UTC  

But the DOJ needs to be involved in any discussion of executive privilege, which is why they stepped in

2019-09-19 17:38:01 UTC  

Or ODIN?

2019-09-19 17:38:04 UTC  

Yes. Just read the article please

2019-09-19 17:38:50 UTC  

Just clarify

2019-09-19 17:38:50 UTC  

His title is Inspector General of the Intelligence Communjty

2019-09-19 17:39:03 UTC  

Michael Atkinson

2019-09-19 17:39:09 UTC  

What the fuck is your question

2019-09-19 17:39:12 UTC  

Ok well you left out part of the name

2019-09-19 17:39:26 UTC  

I fucking listed his title a thousand times

2019-09-19 17:39:53 UTC  

Can you just read any of the articles or like, use google

2019-09-19 17:39:57 UTC  

This isn’t a secret

2019-09-19 17:40:24 UTC  

I asked because you left out part of the title, pretty simple