The White House and Justice Department (DOJ) knew about a whistleblower’s complaint regarding the President Trump’s contacts with Ukraine’s president even as the CIA official who authored it was submitting the complaint to the intelligence community’s inspector general.
The Associated Press reported Friday that the CIA initially alerted the White House after the whistleblower filed a complaint with the CIA. After a second complaint was made on Aug. 12 to the intelligence community’s inspector general, White House counsel John Demers alerted the Justice Department to the issue.
Demers discussed how to handle the complaint for weeks with Justice Department officials, even before the DOJ was notified officially by the intelligence community inspector general about the complaint, a U.S. official and another person familiar with the matter told the AP.
The White House has faced criticism from Congress over its attempts to block the whistleblower complaint from being made available to lawmakers, which happened for the first time this week. Democrats launched an impeachment inquiry over the issue on Tuesday, with the issue having the support of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for the first time.
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Trump White House about whistleblower around same time complaint was filed: report https://t.co/mfX2qK98Pg pic.twitter.com/ROXd1Zh6dB
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