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On the recordSeptember 15, 2019
We have not been presented with a complaint, so we don't know precisely what it has to say. But we do know the inspector general did a preliminary investigation, found that those conditions were met, those are the conditions required by the statute that it be an urgent concern that it go to a flagrant or serious abuse.
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Adam Schiff
Democratic · California

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Adam Schiff discusses the whistleblower complaint and the findings of the inspector general regarding its urgency and seriousness.

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