IG could not explain 18-day window between Ukraine call and whistleblower complaint: sources
Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, in testimony to House lawmakers about the whistleblower complaint on President Trump‘s controversial phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart, could not explain what accounted for the 18-day window between the July 25 call and the Aug. 12 complaint filing — or when exactly the whistleblower contacted a key Democrat’s staff, sources familiar with the testimony told Fox News.
The whistleblower’s contact with Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff’s staff before filing the complaint in mid-August has prompted renewed scrutiny of Schiff.
The top Democrat previously said “we have not spoken directly to the whistleblower,” but his office later revised the claim, saying that Schiff himself “does not know the identity of the whistleblower, and has not met with or spoken with the whistleblower or their counsel” for any reason.
Sources familiar with Atkinson’s closed-door, transcribed interview Friday with members of the House Intelligence Committee also noted that Atkinson said the whistleblower did not disclose the contact – during that 18-day window – with Schiff’s office, as Fox News first reported Friday. Sources said Atkinson testified that the whistleblower, in filing the complaint, left “blank” a section in which he or she could have disclosed that congressional contact.
One of the things that separates us from the rest of living organisms on this planet is our endowed ability to introspect, reflect, meditate if you will, which allows us to discern the grey from the silly notion of black and white reality; the either-or of, if it can’t be scientifically measured or explained it does NOT exist.
These mystical gifts we are endowed with opens us up to the ”big picture” where the impossible and unexplainable resides. A place where our minds are free to wander between the black and white and into the grey, where the wonders of being human are experienced.
Science and theories have a place but are very much limited to the petri dish that some so adamantly force themselves to believe is where life begins and ends. A limited, finite universe; manageable and explainable.
Just as I’m almost certain we came into this world terrified of being free of the warm confines of the womb, there are those who choose to remain confined in tidy antiseptic labs for very much the same reason. They are terrified.
They view reality through a periscope rather than a telescope The finite rather than the infinite. They fail to realize that being born into this life is a miracle; one that, without a doubt, each and every one of us has experienced. And this is only the beginning of our journey.
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