Many thanks to the sources posting that #WhistleblowerComplaint online. Being able to read the full text is a boon.

Media outlets (Wall Street Journal, MSNBC) have already published ‘Takeaway’ round-ups about the filing. Here is another one.

1. “inter alia”? Seriously? Is the author trying to sound like a lawyer? Trying to sound like a more serious lawyer than he is? He uses “among other things” in the second graf; why not stick to English? Details are a giveaway.
2. Citing “multiple” sources re a phone conversation between the U.S. and Ukraine governments, mainly “White House officials,” the author says, “I do not know which side initiated the call.” How could he not know that, given the knowledge of content he claims? Didn’t he ask?
3. The author says, “I do not know whether similar measures were taken to restrict access to other records of the call, such as contemporaneous handwritten notes taken by those who listened in.” Same questions.
4. The author says, “I do not know whether anyone was physically present with the President during the call.” Same questions.
5. The author identifies “a State Department official, T. Ulrich Brechbuhl,” as having listened in. This is the only listener identified by name. CBS News has reported that Mr. Brechbuhl did not listen in. What’s going on here?
6. The author identifies himself as a “non-White House official.” Is he a full-time government employee? Some of this stuff has ‘disgruntled government contractor’ written all over it. Or maybe [DITTO DITTO] ‘consultant’? ‘Communications manager’?

By the way, why would the fact that a Ukraine politician lost/won a primary in a ‘landslide’ be classified information, conveyed only in the ‘Enclosure’?

Guess we know what questions Chuck Todd will not be raising on MSNBC this evening.

[link]
https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/20190812_-_whistleblower_complaint_unclass.pdf