The Bulwark: “When the whistleblower filed the complaint, the Office of the Inspector General quickly concluded that it was both credible and ‘a matter of urgent concern.’ Consequently, the OIG had a legal duty to report it to Congress. But when the OIG filed what should have been a pro-forma notification of the complaint with the Director of National Intelligence, something happened. Instead of facilitating the passing of the complaint to the congressional intelligence committees as the law requires, the administration began a frantic effort to bottle it up, permanently.”

