"Bakaj, the whistleblower’s lawyer, previously advised a #CIA officer who in 2019 filed a complaint that sparked Trump’s first #impeachment.
“From my experience, it is confounding for [Gabbard’s office] to take weeks—let alone 8 months—to transmit a disclosure to #Congress,” Bakaj, who is chief #legal counsel at the nonprofit WhistleblowerAid.org, said in a statement.
Amid the limbo, the #Gabbard complaint has been locked in a safe"
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Bakaj, the whistleblower’s lawyer, previously advised a Central Intelligence Agency officer who in 2019 filed a complaint that sparked Trump’s first impeachment.
“From my experience, it is confounding for [Gabbard’s office] to take weeks—let alone eight months—to transmit a disclosure to Congress,” Bakaj, who is chief legal counsel at the nonprofit WhistleblowerAid.org, said in a statement.
Amid the limbo, the Gabbard complaint has been locked in a safe in the office, a person familiar with the matter said. Asked about the safe, the inspector-general representative said: “Some complaints involve exceptionally sensitive materials necessitating special handling and storage requirements. This case is one of them.”
Some of the material in the complaint is also “marked as ‘attorney-client privileged,’ ” and could be subject to “executive privilege,” which generally refers to the power of the president to withhold confidential information or private discussions from Congress or the judicial branch, the inspector general’s office said.](https://assets.newsie.social/media_attachments/files/116/008/313/853/563/518/original/ea95948ce3ccac46.png)
"Days after #Trump returned to the presidency in January 2025, he fired a raft of inspectors general across #government, which #Democrats said was an effort to “purge” his administration of independent watchdogs to conceal wrongdoing.
Last year #Gabbard also fired the acting counsel in the intelligence community’s #InspectorGeneral ’s office, and appointed a senior adviser within the office who reported directly to Gabbard. Democrats said the moves violated the #law."
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