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Acting spy chief to testify on whistleblower's complaint

WASHINGTON _The nation's highest ranking intelligence official is expected to be grilled over the administration's handling of a still-secret whistleblower's complaint when he appears before Congress on Thursday as the first witness in the Democrats' formal impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.

Joseph Maguire, the acting director of national intelligence, initially refused to share the complaint or the report of the independent inspector general, who deemed it credible and urgent, with congressional intelligence committees. Democrats said he was breaking the law by withholding

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