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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

The White House vs. The Whistleblower

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate

News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Somewhere in Washington right now there is a whistleblower. We don’t know who they are, what their job is, or if they’re a man or a woman. The only thing we do know is that they are in the middle of a political firestorm. So, how did this all come about? And will it be enough to push Congress to act? Guest: Shane Harris, covers intelligence and national security for the Washington Post. To learn more about the Hunter Biden story, check out our episode from earlier this summer: "The Cloud Over Joe Biden's Son." Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Somewhere in Washington right now, there is this whistleblower.

0:08.3

We don't know who they are, what their job is, whether they're a man or a woman.

0:13.4

The only thing we do know is that they are in the middle of a political firestorm.

0:18.4

What prompted a whistleblower inside the intelligence community to raise what the community's top

0:22.6

watchdog decided were, quote, urgent concerns.

0:26.1

And why haven't those concerns been brought before Congress as the law requires?

0:31.7

The president's whistleblower strategy, a Twitter defense, Trump did nothing wrong.

0:37.7

All of this reviving questions about collusion and, of course, the more legal term of art

0:41.8

when you try to do something illegal, conspiracy.

0:48.6

About a week ago, I started hearing about this whistleblower.

0:53.7

I've been feeling though that you were hearing about this before I was.

0:58.0

Well, we first heard about the whistleblower.

1:02.0

This would have been, I guess, a week ago, Friday.

1:05.6

Shane Harris is a reporter at the Washington Post, covers national security.

1:10.3

He says this all started a few Fridays ago, Friday the 13th.

1:15.9

That's when the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, revealed a whistleblower

1:21.4

had filed a complaint, but that the director of national intelligence was blocking Schiff's

1:26.0

committee from seeing it.

1:27.7

We do not have the complaint.

1:29.8

We do not know whether the press reports are accurate or inaccurate about the contents

1:35.7

of that complaint.

1:37.6

And then Adam Schiff, very tantalizingly, referred to the contours of what he knew about

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