The Whistle-Blower’s Complaint

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The whistle-blower complaint at the center of the impeachment inquiry was released on Thursday as the Trump administration official who had declined to turn it over — Joseph Maguire, the acting director of national intelligence — testified before Congress. Here’s the latest from Capitol Hill. Guest: Julie Hirschfeld Davis, the congressional editor for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily (https://www.nytimes.com/thedaily).

Background reading:


The complaint accused President Trump of pressuring Ukraine’s leader to investigate a political rival and alleged that the White House tried to “lock down” the transcript of the call (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/us/politics/whistleblower-complaint-released.html?smid=pc-thedaily).
Here’s what we’ve learned (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/us/politics/who-is-whistleblower.html?smid=pc-thedaily) about the whistle-blower.
Read a declassified version of the complaint (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/26/us/politics/whistle-blower-complaint.html?smid=pc-thedaily), with annotations, and eight takeaways (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/us/politics/whistleblower-declassified-report.html?smid=pc-thedaily) from the document.


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