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Originally Posted by detbuch
Investigate all you want, but have something more solid to investigate than a spin. There can be a personal dissatisfaction in a federal government executive agency with how the President is handling a particular situation, there may even be a personal belief that the President is doing something purely for personal gain. That should be handled internally with complaints and advice, not by making a federal case for impeachment. What should be the important thing is getting policy "right," not making personal interpretations of the President's intent.
In the final analysis, ANYTHING the President does will accrue to either his political benefit or his political detriment. So the question should be is his policy right or wrong, good or bad, and use the internal agency means to question and advise and change any policy that one disagrees with. Whether it personally helps the President's political health or not.
But, in any case, it is not up to agency bureaucrats to spin the President's intent.
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What agency bureaucrat spun something?
Was it the general counsel at the CIA or NSC, or perhaps the DNI or IGIC? They all read the Memo. They all were appointed by Trump.
Trump’s ask of Zelensky was so grave that both the CIA general counsel, Courtney Simmons Elwood, and the general counsel at the National Security Council, John Eisenberg, decided the accusations had a “reasonable basis” and together called the Justice Department on Aug. 14 to discuss how to handle them. Elwood reportedly intended this call to be a criminal referral about the president’s conduct. Later in August, the Acting Director of National Intelligence and Inspector General for the Intelligence Community referred the allegations to the Justice Department as a possible criminal matter. This means that upon learning of Trump’s ask alone (forget everything else we’ve learned), multiple senior government lawyers, all appointed by Trump, were worried the president had committed a crime.