Joseph McGuire, the acting director of national intelligence and another Trump creature, is refusing to do his duty and transmit the Whistleblower’s complaint to Congress. He is to “testify” before the House Intelligence Committee on in open session on Sept. 26. Why open session? He will say nothing, nothing, lies, and nothing again. It will be Corey Lewandowski all over. 

McGuire says the information he has received is potentially privileged and outside the scope of the House Intelligence Committee’s work. “Potentially privileged”! It seems to me that acting director of national intelligence ought to know whether information is privileged. Or not or is he uncertain because Trump and Co. haven’t told him how they are going to play this. They don’t know whether to claim the executive privilege that covers a multitude of sins or the familiar TOP SECRET privilege.

This is a case of the accused telling the court what kind of evidence it can access.

I’m willing to bet that the foreign leader in question is Bibi Netanyahu and that Trump promised him America’s backing no matter who wins the Israeli election. Plausible?