\u00a0the Post reported.<\/strong><\/a> “It raises new questions about the president\u2019s handling of sensitive information and may further strain his relationship with U.S. spy agencies. One former official said the communication was a phone call.”<\/p>\nJason Klitenic, the general counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, told Schiff in a letter on Tuesday that the law did not require that the complaint be turned over to Congress.<\/p>\n
The few additional details the committee\u2019s investigative staff has learned about the whistleblower complaint without the actual document has left them shaken, according to an official familiar with the matter who asked for anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue.<\/p>\n
Little is publicly known about the complaint, or who made it.<\/p>\n
The unidentified whistleblower has been revealed as \u201can individual within the intelligence community,\u201d who had made the complaint to the inspector general of the intelligence community, including in the Tuesday letter from Klitenic in response to Schiff\u2019s request for information and a Sept. 13 communication with the panel.<\/p>\n
The Tuesday letter reveals the complaint concerned conduct by someone outside the intelligence community, and involves \u201cconfidential and potentially privileged matters relating to the interests of other stakeholders within the executive branch.\u201d<\/p>\n
The complaint was filed about a month ago, Schiff has said.<\/p>\n
In this instance, the inspector general had determined the complaint to be credible and of \u201curgent concern,\u201d which Schiff says meant that Maguire was then required by statute to submit the complaint to the congressional intelligence committees – but he refused to do so.<\/p>\n
The DNI, after consulting with the Department of Justice, responded that no statute, in fact, required disclosure of the details of this type of complaint to the congressional intelligence committees.<\/p>\n
Klitenic did write to Schiff that the DNI was committed to working out a acceptable accommodation with the committee. He added that the DNI also pledged to continue to protect the whistleblower\u2019s identity, and would not permit that person to become the target of any retaliation.<\/p>\n
Trump chose Maguire to become the acting director of national intelligence when Dan Coats stepped down last month. Maguire had been the chief of the National Counterterrorism Center.<\/p>\n
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