Reading Room Document

“Urgent Concern” Determination by the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community

This opinion considers whether the Director of National Intelligence was required to inform the congressional intelligence committees that President Trump had allegedly pressured the Ukrainian president to pursue investigations that might assist his re-election bid during an official phone call on July 25, 2019, which was a possible violation of the campaign-finance law. The opinion concludes that the Director is not required to report the allged misconduct to Congress, since only "urgent concern" would trigger the statutory procedures that require expedited reporting and the alleged misconduct is not an "urgent concern." The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at https://justice.gov/olc/page/file/1205151/download.

September 3, 2019