EXCLUSIVE: Trump surveillance whistleblower’s recordings heard by Senate committee investigators, says NatSec lawyer
Lordy, there ARE tapes!
The attorney representing a whistleblower with information about an illegal surveillance scheme targeting Democratic congressional leadership with Donald Trump’s alleged knowledge just gave an exclusive interview about his client’s never-before-reported audio recordings and the response to his letter to the Senate.
He also revealed that federal law enforcement received the same information his client had delivered to Congress.
Investigators from the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence have already met on Capitol Hill with the whistleblower, and their lawyer Dan Meyer, National Security Partner at Tully Rinckey just revealed exclusively, “The recordings have actually been heard.”
Meyer says his client’s whistleblower report has been “formally through the intake process at the Senate Intelligence Committee. In that process, it's the counsels for both the majority and minority members that met with the whistleblower. I [attended] telephonically.”
“So both the Democratic and the Republican, General Counsels on the Senate Intelligence Committee were on the call when the whistleblower played from the recordings,” explained the lawyer, who is himself a three-time whistleblower.
In Meyer's previous government service work, he helped establish the intelligence community’s whistleblower protection program. From 2013 through 2017 he served as the federal government's Executive Director for Intelligence Community Whistleblowing & Source Protection.
“They were snippets,” explained the veteran lawyer about how much of the whistleblower’s recordings were shared with the Senate Intel committee’s staff attorneys. “It was not the entire three hours.”
Congressional staffers reviewed the material for benefits related to foreign intelligence, not enforcing U.S. law.
“But it was enough to do the intake process and now under their, their procedures,” explained Meyer. “The counsels will brief the members and then the committee will decide whether [their investigation] is going to go further. They're doing that on the foreign intelligence side; that’s their concern. They're not a law enforcement entity.”
However, that doesn’t preclude a law enforcement response to the serious allegations related to unlawful domestic activity linked to former President Trump. Merely this is not the specific venue where those matters are tackled.
“We are following up with the Federal Bureau of Investigation so that the national security division at the FBI can decide whether there's a matter for them to pursue,” revealed Meyer, for the first time sharing where else information about the whistleblower’s recordings has landed. “That could also include other entities within the FBI if the information is sufficient to follow up on. The other concern that the whistleblower raised, is that there was an attempt to gain the software on voting machines”
This isn’t the end of reporting about a scheme driven by former intelligence officers to influence members of Congress—with the knowledge of the former President—and to impact the 2024 election.
But it is the end of the beginning.
Here’s a link to our previous report on this matter:
Did Trump know about unlawful, private surveillance program targeting Democratic lawmakers? Leaked memo says 'yes'
A leaked memo from one of Washington’s most respected whistleblower lawyers to Congressional leadership overseeing the US intelligence community reveals a plot to use advanced technology to conduct an “unlawful private intelligence operation within the United States” with the knowledge of the former President.
This needs to come out on mainstream media. Why does nobody know about it?
This just went right by everyone and it's possibly the most disturbing next to constant contact w Putin by musk and trump