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Adam Schiff: “If in a matter within the jurisdiction of the director of national intelligence, you have an employee of that community…”

On the recordSeptember 18, 2019
If in a matter within the jurisdiction of the director of national intelligence, you have an employee of that community or contractor or detailee who follows the law and makes a complaint, and it is possible for the subject of that complaint to essentially quash the complaint or keep it from Congress, then this system is badly broken.
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Adam Schiff
Democratic · California

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Adam Schiff discusses the implications of the whistleblower complaint being blocked from Congress.

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