DNI Threatened To Resign If Prevented From Testifying Freely Before Congress | Katy Tur | MSNBC

Joseph Maguire, the acting director of national intelligence, vowed to resign if he wasn’t allowed to testify to Congress, a source familiar with the matter told NBC News. Aired on 09/25/19.
Maguire is expected to appear before the House Intelligence Committee Thursday over the whistleblower complaint that has led to a formal impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.
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DNI Threatened To Resign If Prevented From Testifying Freely Before Congress | Katy Tur | MSNBC

78 comments

    1. @muuuuuud fighting back in public is the best way to preserve his reputation. When he resigns he will dissapear, and a nazi will be appointed, just like the last 20 idiots that resigned.

    1. @george cushing Surely you’re starting to catch on by now? Jesus. It might have been a clue when none of the investigations into the supposed “Deep State” have managed to yield even one indictment. You know which investigation did? The Special Counsel, which resulted in a list as long as my arm of indictments, guilty pleas and prison sentences. Not to mention laying the prosecution for obstruction as soon as “Individual One” is no longer squatting in the Oval Office. This Ukraine scandal should prove to you people that he conspired with Russia in 2016; he is repeating history by trying to cheat his way to re-election because he can’t get there on his own merits. Get a clue, and step out of the Fox echochamber every one in a while. Better yet, read the fecking Mueller Report!

  1. Everyone in the administration has the right to speak freely, 1st F-ing amendment!!! Now, question is; do the people being questioned have ethics, moral and integrity?

    1. Notwithstanding this event, 1st amendment does not permit spewing out confidential information to general public. This congressional hearing will have a closed door session though

    2. Well actually no. DOJ can basically charge anyone and arrest them. So, they could have very much threatened him with criminal action if he disobeyed.

      His only mistake was asking in the first place because this law was setup to stop the president from protecting himself a la Nixon.

    1. @vsedai read my comment correctly. I believe you meant to say it to the person I replied to. I’m well aware as it is an Amendment.

    1. Dave Waldon that is utter nonsense. How old are you? Probably old enough to have lived under the rule of a Democrat government. Did any one of those things happen? No. Not one. In fact I bet you couldn’t say one day under Republicans is any different to one day under Democrats. You had exactly the same freedoms and nobody came to take your guns away.

    1. @Gina R – tRump is the opposite of truth. He is a gas bag full of lies. You are delusional. You need professional help.

    2. So the Whitehouse never requested withholding info, the DNI never said he would resign, and the Whitehouse never asked for the whistleblowers name. Many Legal issues have been solved, but the transcripts still need to be released to judge accordingly.

  2. wow his last speech……… he suddenly made tremendous deals with a lot of country’s jobs went up , economic it’s going tremendous well. all at once everything is rolling. he spoke with a lot of leaders that laughed of what the democrats where doing. is he dreaming? he’s the f laughingstock of the world. nobody is taking him serious.. He’s a kid whining he should have a reward. yeeezz How long can you Americans keep this up ?

    1. For me…not much longer. I am stressed out, tired out, worn out, newsed out, trumped out. Please take him down congress. Please.

    1. @KsEF5 – FIRST – those people who donated that money are not the people who will impeach and then convict him. SECOND, I hope that those people can get their money back because tRump will be kicked out of office before the election and he will NOT be allowed to run in 2020.

      Even the republicans in the Senate have stood up to tRump on this. I have no idea how you can say that it will backfire on the DNC. But the DNC did not start the impeachment process anyway.

      Pelosi would not have moved on tRump UNLESS she had talked to enough republican Senators to get the need number to agree to convict. She has been playing the game of DC politics way too long to move on tRump without knowing that she would win.

      Those people in Michigan just donated to the “Mike Pence for President” campaign. THAT was money tossed in the trash!!.

    2. @george cushing – can you prove that tRump is NOT a Russian agent?? He acts like a Russian agent. He sucks Putin like a Russian agent.

    3. @george cushing – you show us doctored videos to prove what?? That somebody is good at doctoring videos?

      You need to go take a nap, you are ranting worse than tRump.

      YOUR BOY FINALLY DID HIMSELF IN. LIVE WITH IT, LEARN TO ACCEPT IT. SIT WITH US AS WE ENJOY WATCHING HIM GET BOOTED OUT OF OFFICE!!!

  3. Trump just said in his press conference that the DNI told him that he never threatened to resign. Hope they ask him about it tomorrow.

    1. @Tomandtob Ok, thanks. That’s a relief. But I agree that Trump will do anything in order to silence people. Notice how Jeffery Epstein has dropped out of the news?

    2. The DNI has stated he never threatened to resign, and that the Whitehouse never requested the identity of the whistleblower or to withhold the transcripts. Still doesn’t excuse anything until transcripts are released.

    1. what hamster hasn’t figured out mslsd lies to them yet to protect cia&Bush/Clinton establishment draining USA last 30yrs

    2. @george cushing ‘Lock her up’ right? Oh wait… ANOTHER Trump lie.

      Why do you keep listening to a man that keeps lieing to your face?

    1. tRump will write a nasty Tweet about him: “#Maguire didn’t want to do this; he decided to provide his reasons for doing so [unintelligible] hamberders Obama Netflicks”

    1. @Toni Kates …their egos are at play…the president likes the lies I’m telling for him. They are complicit.

    1. @Real M …drunk with power, like a potbellied cop who’s just tall enough with his shoe inserts. Christian hypocrites just use their select scripture to control everyone else.

    2. When the GOPs decided since they were the one who invented the “McCarthyism”, that they must have the right to turn the definition of it, or issues around 😬

    3. @quietman356 123455
      It’s time to register every single traitor that STILL supports this orange criminal traitor.
      No more using our democracy to destroy that very same democracy. Deportation is on the table.

      And EXTREME ignorance is NOT a viable defense. SOON!!!

  4. “Most transparent administration ever,” ladies and gentlemen.
    Maybe by “transparent” he meant blatantly obvious.
    Eh, just another thing to toss on the pile, alongside gripes about “executive privilege” and “having no time for golf.”

    1. It’s very telling that his supporters supposedly wanted transparency and swamp-drainage, yet they rabidly defend his refusal to testify to Mueller and his constant invocations of Executive Privilege. Not to mention that he has privatized the swamp rather than drain it of corrupt actors.

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