White House officials tried to restrict access to records of the phone call especially the “word-for-word” transcript of the conversation.
DNI says the “whistleblower acted in good faith”
On Friday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee and the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, demanded the release of the word-for-word transcript of Trump’s call with Zelensky.
She emphasized, “Congress has a constitutional oversight duty. It’s important that we understand who took actions to hide details of the call with Zelensky and how high those actions reached.”
Additionally, Feinstein said, “I find the whistleblower complaint to be highly credible. It suggests that the president used his office to demand political favors from a foreign country and that White House personnel knew this was wrong and tried to cover it up by burying details of the call with Ukrainian President Zelensky,”
During a House Intelligence Committee hearing on Thursday, Acting DNI Joseph Maguire said the whistleblower and the inspector general of the intelligence community “acted in good faith” and “followed the law.”
