REPORT: 'Whistleblower' Who Complained About Trump's Call to Ukrainian President Zelensky Revealed

[bambino]

Originally Posted by I B Hankering

Your question is a delusional manifestation of your ignorance.

Actually his stupidity and immature behave from a 65yr old.

[WTF]

Originally Posted by WTF

Is this you and bambino?

Originally Posted by I B Hankering

Your question is a delusional manifestation of your ignorance.

So it is you two...which is which?

[I B Hankering]

Originally Posted by WTF

So it is you two...which is which?

Ask your ward nurse.

[dilbert firestorm]

Originally Posted by bambino

So the “Whistle blower” was Obama’s Pajama Boy. He was fired by the White House for leaking to the NYTs. He ended up back at the CIA. Looks like it was Vindamin who leaked the call to him. Pajama Boy goes to Schiff and game on. Tim Morris, who was on the call and testifying today said nothing illegal occurred. He also said Bill Taylor’s testimony wasn’t accurate.

Ciaramella is a security risk. how does one get back into the CIA after getting fired????



apparently, McMaster was the one who rehired him.

[Munchmasterman]

Vindman, who actually listened in on the call, corroborated everything in the filed complaint.

The whining cocksuckers who were crying about the "process" being unfair seem to have forgotten the whistleblower's identity is supposed to be protected by law. But fuck the law, right?

And now that it's going public, does that mean trump's cocksucker brigade will give the transparency they cried about and honor the subpenas they claimed weren't legal until a vote was taken?
Of course not.

The one thing that's been transparent the whole time is what a bunch of projecting douche-bags repubs are.
And now the chief cocksucker is talking about more tax cuts to buy the upcoming election. But you guys are too smart to fall for that, right? Wrong, you already swallowed the hook and a 10 foot steel leader.

trump's current policies project $4 trillion in added debt;
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/08/02/federal-budget-trump-adds-4-trillion-national-debt-watchdog-says/1893228001/
and a current deficit of $1 trillion for this year.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/25/us-deficit-hit-billion-marking-nearly-percent-increase-during-trump-era/


One other thing.

"Further, Ciaramella (pronounced char-a-MEL-ah) left his National Security Council posting in the White House’s West Wing in mid-2017 amid concerns about negative leaks to the media. He has since returned to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia."


Are you sure you have the right guy? If he left the white house in mid-2017, who gave him all this info? How did they meet and pass info without any trumpys finding out?
Not asking you because you'll make shit up to answer questions no douche-publican has faced.
Looks like you chumps "caught" the messenger. And none of the people that fed him his information.

Good to know they're still in place and able to pass more info.

BAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

QUOTE=The_Waco_Kid;1061831756]BAHHHAAAAAAAA we got him now!



REPORT: 'Whistleblower' Who Complained About Trump's Call to Ukrainian President Zelensky Revealed

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronso...ident-n2555644



The Beltway's 'Whistleblower' Furor Obsesses Over One Name

https://www.realclearinvestigations....er_120996.html


By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations
October 30, 2019, 4:21 PM Eastern

For a town that leaks like a sieve, Washington has done an astonishingly effective job keeping from the American public the name of the anonymous “whistleblower" who triggered impeachment proceedings against President Trump — even though his identity is an open secret inside the Beltway.


Eric Ciaramella as a class of 2004 Connecticut prep student: He later moved on to Yale and the White House. Now he could be at the center of an impeachment storm.
Chase Collegiate School, Waterbury, Conn./The Magpie


More than two months after the official filed his complaint, pretty much all that’s known publicly about him is that he is a CIA analyst who at one point was detailed to the White House and is now back working at the CIA.


But the name of a government official fitting that description — Eric Ciaramella — has been raised privately in impeachment depositions, according to officials with direct knowledge of the proceedings, as well as in at least one open hearing held by a House committee not involved in the impeachment inquiry. Fearing their anonymous witness could be exposed, Democrats this week blocked Republicans from asking more questions about him and intend to redact his name from all deposition transcripts.


RealClearInvestigations is disclosing the name because of the public’s interest in learning details of an effort to remove a sitting president from office. Further, the official's status as a “whistleblower” is complicated by his being a hearsay reporter of accusations against the president, one who has “some indicia of an arguable political bias … in favor of a rival political candidate" -- as the Intelligence Community Inspector General phrased it circumspectly in originally fielding his complaint.


Federal documents reveal that the 33-year-old Ciaramella, a registered Democrat held over from the Obama White House, previously worked with former Vice President Joe Biden and former CIA Director John Brennan, a vocal critic of Trump who helped initiate the Russia “collusion” investigation of the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.


Joe Biden: Invited Ciaramella to state luncheon with Italian premier. Also invited: Brennan, Comey, Clapper.
AP Photo/Matt Rourke


Further, Ciaramella (pronounced char-a-MEL-ah) left his National Security Council posting in the White House’s West Wing in mid-2017 amid concerns about negative leaks to the media. He has since returned to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.


“He was accused of working against Trump and leaking against Trump,” said a former NSC official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters.


Also, Ciaramella huddled for “guidance” with the staff of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, including former colleagues also held over from the Obama era whom Schiff’s office had recently recruited from the NSC. (Schiff is the lead prosecutor in the impeachment inquiry.)


And Ciaramella worked with a Democratic National Committee operative who dug up dirt on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election, inviting her into the White House for meetings, former White House colleagues said. The operative, Alexandra Chalupa, a Ukrainian-American who supported Hillary Clinton, led an effort to link the Republican campaign to the Russian government. “He knows her. He had her in the White House,” said one former co-worker, who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter.


Alexandra Chalupa: DNC oppo researcher was invited to the Obama White House by Ciaramella.
Afric Vision NouvelleTV/YouTube


Documents confirm the DNC opposition researcher attended at least one White House meeting with Ciaramella in November 2015. She visited the White House with a number of Ukrainian officials lobbying the Obama administration for aid for Ukraine.


With Ciaramella’s name long under wraps, interest in the intelligence analyst has become so high that a handful of former colleagues have compiled a roughly 40-page research dossier on him. A classified version of the document is circulating on Capitol Hill, and briefings have been conducted based on it. One briefed Republican has been planning to unmask the whistleblower in a speech on the House floor.


On the Internet, meanwhile, Ciaramella's name for weeks has been bandied about on Twitter feeds and intelligence blogs as the suspected person who blew the whistle on the president. The mainstream media are also aware of his name.


Fred Fleitz, Trump adviser: “Everyone knows who he is."
fredfleitz.com/Wikimedia


“Everyone knows who he is. CNN knows. The Washington Post knows. The New York Times knows. Congress knows. The White House knows. Even the president knows who he is,” said Fred Fleitz, a former CIA analyst and national security adviser to Trump, who has fielded dozens of calls from the media.

Yet a rare hush has swept across the Potomac. The usually gossipy nation’s capital remains uncharacteristically — and curiously — mum, especially considering the magnitude of this story, only the fourth presidential impeachment inquiry in U.S. history.


Trump supporters blame the conspiracy of silence on a “corrupt” and "biased” media trying to protect the whistleblower from due scrutiny about his political motives. They also complain Democrats have falsely claimed that exposing his identity would violate whistleblower protections, even though the relevant statute provides limited, not blanket, anonymity – and doesn’t cover press disclosures. His Democrat attorneys, meanwhile, have warned that outing him would put him and his family “at risk of harm," although government security personnel have been assigned to protect him.


“They’re hiding him,” Fleitz asserted. “They’re hiding him because of his political bias."


A CIA officer specializing in Russia and Ukraine, Ciaramella was detailed over to the National Security Council from the agency in the summer of 2015, working under Susan Rice, President Obama’s national security adviser. He also worked closely with the former vice president.


Susan Rice: Ciaramella worked under Obama's national security adviser.
AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File


Federal records show that Biden’s office invited Ciaramella to an October 2016 state luncheon the vice president hosted for Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. Other invited guests included Brennan, as well as then-FBI Director James Comey and then-National Intelligence Director James Clapper.


Several U.S. officials told RealClearInvestigations that the invitation that was extended to Ciaramella, a relatively low-level GS-13 federal employee, was unusual and signaled he was politically connected inside the Obama White House.


Former White House officials said Ciaramella worked on Ukrainian policy issues for Biden in 2015 and 2016, when the vice president was President Obama's "point man" for Ukraine. A Yale graduate, Ciaramella is said to speak Russian and Ukrainian, as well as Arabic. He had been assigned to the NSC by Brennan.


He was held over into the Trump administration, and headed the Ukraine desk at the NSC, eventually transitioning into the West Wing, until June 2017.


“He was moved over to the front office” to temporarily fill a vacancy, said a former White House official, where he “saw everything, read everything.”


The official added that it soon became clear among NSC staff that Ciaramella opposed the new Republican president’s foreign policies. “My recollection of Eric is that he was very smart and very passionate, particularly about Ukraine and Russia. That was his thing – Ukraine,” he said. “He didn’t exactly hide his passion with respect to what he thought was the right thing to do with Ukraine and Russia, and his views were at odds with the president’s policies.”


“So I wouldn’t be surprised if he was the whistleblower,” the official said.


In May 2017, Ciaramella went “outside his chain of command,” according to a former NSC co-worker, to send an email alerting another agency that Trump happened to hold a meeting with Russian diplomats in the Oval Office the day after firing Comey, who led the Trump-Russia investigation. The email also noted that Russian President Vladimir Putin had phoned the president a week earlier.


Contents of the email appear to have ended up in the media, which reported Trump boasted to the Russian officials about firing Comey, whom he allegedly called “crazy, a real nut job.”


In effect, Ciaramella helped generate the “Putin fired Comey” narrative, according to the research dossier making the rounds in Congress, a copy of which was obtained by RealClearInvestigations.


Ciaramella allegedly argued that “President Putin suggested that President Trump fire Comey,” the report said. “In the days after Comey’s firing, this presidential action was used to further political and media calls for the standup [sic] of the special counsel to investigate ‘Russia collusion.’ “


In the end, Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no conspiracy between Trump and Putin. Ciaramella’s email was cited in a footnote in his report, which mentions only Ciaramella’s name, the date and the recipients “Kelly et al.” Former colleagues said the main recipient was then-Homeland Security Director John Kelly..


House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff: "Whistleblower" complaint amounts to impeachable offense.
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite


Ciaramella left the Trump White House soon after Mueller was appointed. Attempts to reach Ciaramella were unsuccessful, although his father said in a phone interview from Hartford, where he is a bank executive, that he doubted his son was the whistleblower. “He didn’t have that kind of access to that kind of information,” Tony Ciaramella said. “He’s just a guy going to work every day.” The whistleblower's lawyers did not answer emails and phone calls seeking comment. CIA spokesman Luis Rossello declined comment, saying, “Anything on the whistleblower, we are referring to ODNI.” The Office of the Director of National Intelligence did not respond to requests for comment.


In his complaint, the whistleblower charged that the president used “the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election.” Specifically, he cited a controversial July 25 phone call from the White House residence in which Trump asked Ukraine’s new president to help investigate the origins of the Russia “collusion” investigation the Obama administration initiated against his campaign, citing reports that “a lot of it started with Ukraine," where the former pro-Hillary Clinton regime in Kiev worked with Obama diplomats and Chalupa to try to “sabotage” Trump’s run for president.


Later in the conversation, Trump also requested information about Biden and his son, since “Biden went around bragging that he” had fired the chief Ukrainian prosecutor at the time a Ukrainian oligarch, who gave Biden’s son a lucrative seat on the board of his energy conglomerate, was under investigation for corruption.


House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Intelligence Committee Chairman Schiff argued the whistleblower's complaint, though admittedly based on second-hand information, amounts to an impeachable offense, and they subsequently launched an impeachment inquiry that has largely been conducted in secret.


The whistleblower filed his “urgent” report against Trump with the I.C. inspector general on Aug. 12, but it was not publicly released until Sept. 26.


Prior to filing, he had met with Schiff’s Democratic staff for “guidance." At first, the California lawmaker denied the contacts, but later admitted that his office did, in fact, meet with the whistleblower early on.


Sean Misko: One of Ciaramella’s closest allies at the NSC, now on Schiff's staff.
Center for a New American Security


Earlier this year, Schiff recruited two of Ciaramella’s closest allies at the NSC — both whom were also Obama holdovers -- to join his committee staff. He hired one, Sean Misko, in August — the same month the whistleblower complaint was filed.


During closed-door depositions taken in the impeachment inquiry, Misko has been observed handing notes to the lead counsel for the impeachment inquiry, Daniel Goldman, as he asks questions of Trump administration witnesses, officials with direct knowledge of the proceedings told RealClearInvestigations.


Republicans participating in the restricted inquiry hearings have been asking witnesses about Ciaramella and repeatedly injecting his name into the deposition record, angering Schiff and Democrats, who sources say are planning to scrub the references to Ciaramella from any transcripts of the hearings they may agree to release.


“Their reaction tells you something,” said one official familiar with the inquiry.


For example, sources said Ciaramella’s name was invoked by GOP committee members during the closed-door testimony of former NSC official Fiona Hill on Oct. 14. Ciaramella worked with Hill, another Obama holdover, in the West Wing.


During Tuesday’s deposition of NSC official Alexander Vindman, Democrats shut down a line of inquiry by Republicans because they said it risked revealing the identity of the whistleblower. Republicans wanted to know with whom Vindman spoke within the administration about his concerns regarding Trump’s call to Ukraine. But Schiff instructed the witness not to answer the questions, which reportedly sparked a shouting match between Democrats and Republicans.


Determined to keep the whistleblower's identity secret, Schiff recently announced it may not be necessary for him to testify even in closed session. Republicans argue that by hiding his identity, the public cannot assess his motives for striking out against the president. And they worry his political bias could color inquiry testimony and findings unless it’s exposed.


Rep. Jim Jordan, the top Republican on the House Oversight Committee, asserted the American people have the right to know the person who is trying to bring down the president for whom 63 million voted.


“It’s tough to determine someone’s credibility if you can’t put them under oath and ask them questions,” he said.


Added Jordan: “The people want to know. I want to get to the truth."



Rep. Louis Gohmert: Ciaramella was “supposed to be a point person on Ukraine, during the time when Ukraine was its most corrupt, and he didn’t blow any whistles on their corruption."
AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin


In an open House Natural Resources Committee hearing last week, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) seemingly out of left field asked a witness about “Eric Ciaramella of the Obama National Security Council,” in what the Washington press corps took as a bid to out the whistleblower. He later told a Dallas radio station he knew the whistleblower’s name. “A lot of us in Washington know who it is,” Gohmert said, adding he’s a “very staunch Democrat” who was “supposed to be a point person on Ukraine, during the time when Ukraine was its most corrupt, and he didn’t blow any whistles on their corruption."


The Washington Post ran a news story over the weekend critical of Republicans for allegedly trying to “unmask” the whistleblower, for attempting to do the job journalists would normally do. Last week, the paper ran an op-ed by the whistleblower’s attorneys claiming he was no longer relevant to the inquiry and beseeching the public to let their client slip back into obscurity.


For its part, the New York Times ran a story last month reporting details about the whistleblower’s background, but stopped short of fully identifying him, suggesting it didn’t know his politics or even his name. “Little else is known about him,” the paper claimed.


On Thursday, Democrats plan a House vote on new impeachment-inquiry rules that would give Republicans for the first time the ability to call their own witnesses. Only, their requests must first be approved by the Democrats. So there is a good chance the whistleblower, perhaps the most important witness of all, will remain protected from critical examination.


the Democrat led House can hide him, but not from the Republican controlled Senate. the Senate has the right to call witnesses too. oh yeah .. they do.


THE RAT WHISTLEBLOWER WILL TESTIFY .. !!!


[/QUOTE]

[The_Waco_Kid]

Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

He's a security risk. how does one get back into the CIA after getting fired????



apparently, McMaster was the one who rehired him.

Ciaramella left amid allegations of leaking, it appears nothing was ever directly pinned on him however he clearly was a source. so it looks like he gets a free pass back to the CIA.


but he won't get a free pass from Mitch and the Senate. check the trial rules. the Senate can call witnesses too. the whistleblower laws only allow limited anonymity. the Republicans can demand the testimony of the whistleblower and should. and Schiff. and Schiff's staff. all of them are fair game if it gets to the Senate.

[The_Waco_Kid]

Originally Posted by Munchmasterman

Vindman, who actually listened in on the call, corroborated everything in the filed complaint.

The whining cocksuckers who were crying about the "process" being unfair seem to have forgotten the whistleblower's identity is supposed to be protected by law. But fuck the law, right?

And now that it's going public, does that mean trump's cocksucker brigade will give the transparency they cried about and honor the subpenas they claimed weren't legal until a vote was taken?
Of course not.

The one thing that's been transparent the whole time is what a bunch of projecting douche-bags repubs are.
And now the chief cocksucker is talking about more tax cuts to buy the upcoming election. But you guys are too smart to fall for that, right? Wrong, you already swallowed the hook and a 10 foot steel leader.

trump's current policies project $4 trillion in added debt;
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/08/02/federal-budget-trump-adds-4-trillion-national-debt-watchdog-says/1893228001/
and a current deficit of $1 trillion for this year.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/25/us-deficit-hit-billion-marking-nearly-percent-increase-during-trump-era/


One other thing.

"Further, Ciaramella (pronounced char-a-MEL-ah) left his National Security Council posting in the White House’s West Wing in mid-2017 amid concerns about negative leaks to the media. He has since returned to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia."


Are you sure you have the right guy? If he left the white house in mid-2017, who gave him all this info? How did they meet and pass info without any trumpys finding out?
Not asking you because you'll make shit up to answer questions no douche-publican has faced.
Looks like you chumps "caught" the messenger. And none of the people that fed him his information.

Good to know they're still in place and able to pass more info.

BAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

QUOTE=The_Waco_Kid;1061831756]BAHHHAAAAAAAA we got him now!



REPORT: 'Whistleblower' Who Complained About Trump's Call to Ukrainian President Zelensky Revealed

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronso...ident-n2555644



The Beltway's 'Whistleblower' Furor Obsesses Over One Name

https://www.realclearinvestigations....er_120996.html


By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations
October 30, 2019, 4:21 PM Eastern

For a town that leaks like a sieve, Washington has done an astonishingly effective job keeping from the American public the name of the anonymous “whistleblower" who triggered impeachment proceedings against President Trump — even though his identity is an open secret inside the Beltway.


Eric Ciaramella as a class of 2004 Connecticut prep student: He later moved on to Yale and the White House. Now he could be at the center of an impeachment storm.
Chase Collegiate School, Waterbury, Conn./The Magpie


More than two months after the official filed his complaint, pretty much all that’s known publicly about him is that he is a CIA analyst who at one point was detailed to the White House and is now back working at the CIA.


But the name of a government official fitting that description — Eric Ciaramella — has been raised privately in impeachment depositions, according to officials with direct knowledge of the proceedings, as well as in at least one open hearing held by a House committee not involved in the impeachment inquiry. Fearing their anonymous witness could be exposed, Democrats this week blocked Republicans from asking more questions about him and intend to redact his name from all deposition transcripts.


RealClearInvestigations is disclosing the name because of the public’s interest in learning details of an effort to remove a sitting president from office. Further, the official's status as a “whistleblower” is complicated by his being a hearsay reporter of accusations against the president, one who has “some indicia of an arguable political bias … in favor of a rival political candidate" -- as the Intelligence Community Inspector General phrased it circumspectly in originally fielding his complaint.


Federal documents reveal that the 33-year-old Ciaramella, a registered Democrat held over from the Obama White House, previously worked with former Vice President Joe Biden and former CIA Director John Brennan, a vocal critic of Trump who helped initiate the Russia “collusion” investigation of the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.


Joe Biden: Invited Ciaramella to state luncheon with Italian premier. Also invited: Brennan, Comey, Clapper.
AP Photo/Matt Rourke


Further, Ciaramella (pronounced char-a-MEL-ah) left his National Security Council posting in the White House’s West Wing in mid-2017 amid concerns about negative leaks to the media. He has since returned to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.


“He was accused of working against Trump and leaking against Trump,” said a former NSC official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters.


Also, Ciaramella huddled for “guidance” with the staff of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, including former colleagues also held over from the Obama era whom Schiff’s office had recently recruited from the NSC. (Schiff is the lead prosecutor in the impeachment inquiry.)


And Ciaramella worked with a Democratic National Committee operative who dug up dirt on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election, inviting her into the White House for meetings, former White House colleagues said. The operative, Alexandra Chalupa, a Ukrainian-American who supported Hillary Clinton, led an effort to link the Republican campaign to the Russian government. “He knows her. He had her in the White House,” said one former co-worker, who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter.


Alexandra Chalupa: DNC oppo researcher was invited to the Obama White House by Ciaramella.
Afric Vision NouvelleTV/YouTube


Documents confirm the DNC opposition researcher attended at least one White House meeting with Ciaramella in November 2015. She visited the White House with a number of Ukrainian officials lobbying the Obama administration for aid for Ukraine.


With Ciaramella’s name long under wraps, interest in the intelligence analyst has become so high that a handful of former colleagues have compiled a roughly 40-page research dossier on him. A classified version of the document is circulating on Capitol Hill, and briefings have been conducted based on it. One briefed Republican has been planning to unmask the whistleblower in a speech on the House floor.


On the Internet, meanwhile, Ciaramella's name for weeks has been bandied about on Twitter feeds and intelligence blogs as the suspected person who blew the whistle on the president. The mainstream media are also aware of his name.


Fred Fleitz, Trump adviser: “Everyone knows who he is."
fredfleitz.com/Wikimedia


“Everyone knows who he is. CNN knows. The Washington Post knows. The New York Times knows. Congress knows. The White House knows. Even the president knows who he is,” said Fred Fleitz, a former CIA analyst and national security adviser to Trump, who has fielded dozens of calls from the media.

Yet a rare hush has swept across the Potomac. The usually gossipy nation’s capital remains uncharacteristically — and curiously — mum, especially considering the magnitude of this story, only the fourth presidential impeachment inquiry in U.S. history.


Trump supporters blame the conspiracy of silence on a “corrupt” and "biased” media trying to protect the whistleblower from due scrutiny about his political motives. They also complain Democrats have falsely claimed that exposing his identity would violate whistleblower protections, even though the relevant statute provides limited, not blanket, anonymity – and doesn’t cover press disclosures. His Democrat attorneys, meanwhile, have warned that outing him would put him and his family “at risk of harm," although government security personnel have been assigned to protect him.


“They’re hiding him,” Fleitz asserted. “They’re hiding him because of his political bias."


A CIA officer specializing in Russia and Ukraine, Ciaramella was detailed over to the National Security Council from the agency in the summer of 2015, working under Susan Rice, President Obama’s national security adviser. He also worked closely with the former vice president.


Susan Rice: Ciaramella worked under Obama's national security adviser.
AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File


Federal records show that Biden’s office invited Ciaramella to an October 2016 state luncheon the vice president hosted for Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. Other invited guests included Brennan, as well as then-FBI Director James Comey and then-National Intelligence Director James Clapper.


Several U.S. officials told RealClearInvestigations that the invitation that was extended to Ciaramella, a relatively low-level GS-13 federal employee, was unusual and signaled he was politically connected inside the Obama White House.


Former White House officials said Ciaramella worked on Ukrainian policy issues for Biden in 2015 and 2016, when the vice president was President Obama's "point man" for Ukraine. A Yale graduate, Ciaramella is said to speak Russian and Ukrainian, as well as Arabic. He had been assigned to the NSC by Brennan.


He was held over into the Trump administration, and headed the Ukraine desk at the NSC, eventually transitioning into the West Wing, until June 2017.


“He was moved over to the front office” to temporarily fill a vacancy, said a former White House official, where he “saw everything, read everything.”


The official added that it soon became clear among NSC staff that Ciaramella opposed the new Republican president’s foreign policies. “My recollection of Eric is that he was very smart and very passionate, particularly about Ukraine and Russia. That was his thing – Ukraine,” he said. “He didn’t exactly hide his passion with respect to what he thought was the right thing to do with Ukraine and Russia, and his views were at odds with the president’s policies.”


“So I wouldn’t be surprised if he was the whistleblower,” the official said.


In May 2017, Ciaramella went “outside his chain of command,” according to a former NSC co-worker, to send an email alerting another agency that Trump happened to hold a meeting with Russian diplomats in the Oval Office the day after firing Comey, who led the Trump-Russia investigation. The email also noted that Russian President Vladimir Putin had phoned the president a week earlier.


Contents of the email appear to have ended up in the media, which reported Trump boasted to the Russian officials about firing Comey, whom he allegedly called “crazy, a real nut job.”


In effect, Ciaramella helped generate the “Putin fired Comey” narrative, according to the research dossier making the rounds in Congress, a copy of which was obtained by RealClearInvestigations.


Ciaramella allegedly argued that “President Putin suggested that President Trump fire Comey,” the report said. “In the days after Comey’s firing, this presidential action was used to further political and media calls for the standup [sic] of the special counsel to investigate ‘Russia collusion.’ “


In the end, Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no conspiracy between Trump and Putin. Ciaramella’s email was cited in a footnote in his report, which mentions only Ciaramella’s name, the date and the recipients “Kelly et al.” Former colleagues said the main recipient was then-Homeland Security Director John Kelly..


House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff: "Whistleblower" complaint amounts to impeachable offense.
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite


Ciaramella left the Trump White House soon after Mueller was appointed. Attempts to reach Ciaramella were unsuccessful, although his father said in a phone interview from Hartford, where he is a bank executive, that he doubted his son was the whistleblower. “He didn’t have that kind of access to that kind of information,” Tony Ciaramella said. “He’s just a guy going to work every day.” The whistleblower's lawyers did not answer emails and phone calls seeking comment. CIA spokesman Luis Rossello declined comment, saying, “Anything on the whistleblower, we are referring to ODNI.” The Office of the Director of National Intelligence did not respond to requests for comment.


In his complaint, the whistleblower charged that the president used “the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election.” Specifically, he cited a controversial July 25 phone call from the White House residence in which Trump asked Ukraine’s new president to help investigate the origins of the Russia “collusion” investigation the Obama administration initiated against his campaign, citing reports that “a lot of it started with Ukraine," where the former pro-Hillary Clinton regime in Kiev worked with Obama diplomats and Chalupa to try to “sabotage” Trump’s run for president.


Later in the conversation, Trump also requested information about Biden and his son, since “Biden went around bragging that he” had fired the chief Ukrainian prosecutor at the time a Ukrainian oligarch, who gave Biden’s son a lucrative seat on the board of his energy conglomerate, was under investigation for corruption.


House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Intelligence Committee Chairman Schiff argued the whistleblower's complaint, though admittedly based on second-hand information, amounts to an impeachable offense, and they subsequently launched an impeachment inquiry that has largely been conducted in secret.


The whistleblower filed his “urgent” report against Trump with the I.C. inspector general on Aug. 12, but it was not publicly released until Sept. 26.


Prior to filing, he had met with Schiff’s Democratic staff for “guidance." At first, the California lawmaker denied the contacts, but later admitted that his office did, in fact, meet with the whistleblower early on.


Sean Misko: One of Ciaramella’s closest allies at the NSC, now on Schiff's staff.
Center for a New American Security


Earlier this year, Schiff recruited two of Ciaramella’s closest allies at the NSC — both whom were also Obama holdovers -- to join his committee staff. He hired one, Sean Misko, in August — the same month the whistleblower complaint was filed.


During closed-door depositions taken in the impeachment inquiry, Misko has been observed handing notes to the lead counsel for the impeachment inquiry, Daniel Goldman, as he asks questions of Trump administration witnesses, officials with direct knowledge of the proceedings told RealClearInvestigations.


Republicans participating in the restricted inquiry hearings have been asking witnesses about Ciaramella and repeatedly injecting his name into the deposition record, angering Schiff and Democrats, who sources say are planning to scrub the references to Ciaramella from any transcripts of the hearings they may agree to release.


“Their reaction tells you something,” said one official familiar with the inquiry.


For example, sources said Ciaramella’s name was invoked by GOP committee members during the closed-door testimony of former NSC official Fiona Hill on Oct. 14. Ciaramella worked with Hill, another Obama holdover, in the West Wing.


During Tuesday’s deposition of NSC official Alexander Vindman, Democrats shut down a line of inquiry by Republicans because they said it risked revealing the identity of the whistleblower. Republicans wanted to know with whom Vindman spoke within the administration about his concerns regarding Trump’s call to Ukraine. But Schiff instructed the witness not to answer the questions, which reportedly sparked a shouting match between Democrats and Republicans.


Determined to keep the whistleblower's identity secret, Schiff recently announced it may not be necessary for him to testify even in closed session. Republicans argue that by hiding his identity, the public cannot assess his motives for striking out against the president. And they worry his political bias could color inquiry testimony and findings unless it’s exposed.


Rep. Jim Jordan, the top Republican on the House Oversight Committee, asserted the American people have the right to know the person who is trying to bring down the president for whom 63 million voted.


“It’s tough to determine someone’s credibility if you can’t put them under oath and ask them questions,” he said.


Added Jordan: “The people want to know. I want to get to the truth."



Rep. Louis Gohmert: Ciaramella was “supposed to be a point person on Ukraine, during the time when Ukraine was its most corrupt, and he didn’t blow any whistles on their corruption."
AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin


In an open House Natural Resources Committee hearing last week, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) seemingly out of left field asked a witness about “Eric Ciaramella of the Obama National Security Council,” in what the Washington press corps took as a bid to out the whistleblower. He later told a Dallas radio station he knew the whistleblower’s name. “A lot of us in Washington know who it is,” Gohmert said, adding he’s a “very staunch Democrat” who was “supposed to be a point person on Ukraine, during the time when Ukraine was its most corrupt, and he didn’t blow any whistles on their corruption."


The Washington Post ran a news story over the weekend critical of Republicans for allegedly trying to “unmask” the whistleblower, for attempting to do the job journalists would normally do. Last week, the paper ran an op-ed by the whistleblower’s attorneys claiming he was no longer relevant to the inquiry and beseeching the public to let their client slip back into obscurity.


For its part, the New York Times ran a story last month reporting details about the whistleblower’s background, but stopped short of fully identifying him, suggesting it didn’t know his politics or even his name. “Little else is known about him,” the paper claimed.


On Thursday, Democrats plan a House vote on new impeachment-inquiry rules that would give Republicans for the first time the ability to call their own witnesses. Only, their requests must first be approved by the Democrats. So there is a good chance the whistleblower, perhaps the most important witness of all, will remain protected from critical examination.


the Democrat led House can hide him, but not from the Republican controlled Senate. the Senate has the right to call witnesses too. oh yeah .. they do.


THE RAT WHISTLEBLOWER WILL TESTIFY .. !!!

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your pussy Vindman gave him the second hand info. and Vindman corroborated the transcript as factual expect in his opinion it was not good policy. that's all you have, sparky .. opinions.


name me one person who has testified that has refuted the released transcript? yeah .. didn't think so.


now refute this


Schiff Got Early Account of Accusations as Whistle-Blower’s Concerns Grew

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/u...tleblower.html


Schiff Wrong on Whistleblower Contact

https://www.factcheck.org/2019/10/sc...lower-contact/


Intel Community Admission Of Whistleblower Changes Raises Explosive New Questions

Intel Community IG Stonewalling Congress On Backdated Whistleblower Rule Changes



have a nice sober day munchy!

[lustylad]

Originally Posted by Munchmasterman

And now the chief cocksucker is talking about more tax cuts to buy the upcoming election. But you guys are too smart to fall for that, right? Wrong, you already swallowed the hook and a 10 foot steel leader.

trump's current policies project $4 trillion in added debt;
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/08/02/federal-budget-trump-adds-4-trillion-national-debt-watchdog-says/1893228001/
and a current deficit of $1 trillion for this year.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/25/us-deficit-hit-billion-marking-nearly-percent-increase-during-trump-era/

That's just chump change compared to how much the programs proposed by your dim-retard candidates would explode the deficit and the debt.

Got a price tag for Medicare-for-All, munchy? Both the liberal Urban Institute and the conservative Mercatus Center put the cost at $32 trillion over 10 years.

https://www.urban.org/sites/default/...yer_plan_0.pdf

I mean what the fuck, that alone would jack up federal spending by 70% overnight, from its current $4.4 trillion a year rate to $7.6 trillion a year.

Whooopeee, who cares, right?

And that doesn't even begin to include the costs of all the OTHER free stuff (tuition-free college for all, Green New Deal, student loan forgiveness, reparations, etc.) that you dim-retards are pedaling "to buy the upcoming election" as you put it.

So either you are a complete moron who can't process simple budget math or you are a lying hypocrite when you whine about trump running up the deficit/debt and you fail to compare his numbers with the estimated costs of all your dim-retard give-aways.

By the way, dickmuncher, a "give-away" is when you give something away, not when you let hard-working taxpayers keep more of their hard-earned money instead of seeing it confiscated and pissed away by greedy, free-spending lib-retards.

Some more numbers for you to put into your Politifact dickmunching machine:

Percent Increase In National Debt Under Trump's First 3 Fiscal Years (10/1/16 to 9/30/19) = 15.7%

Percent Increase In National Debt Under Obama's First 3 Fiscal Years (10/1/08 to 9/30/11) = 46.1%

Oh dear! So trumpy has increased the debt only 1/3 as fast as Obama did, viewing the same timeframes in their respective administrations?

Who knew???

[HoeHummer]

Your whistleblower is probably Melania Trump.

[The_Waco_Kid]

Originally Posted by HoeHummer

Your whistleblower is probably Melania Trump.

she blows Trump's whistle.


she's outta yer price range.

[eccieuser9500]

I can get her on credit. Or lay-away.

[The_Waco_Kid]

Originally Posted by eccieuser9500

I can get her on credit. Or lay-away.

one word.

NO.


BAHHAAAA

[oeb11]

In 9500's dreams.

[gnadfly]

Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid

that's basically it. it's a publicity stunt nothing more. Al "The werewolf" Green said they have to impeach Trump in a bid to keep him from winning a second term. in the sloppy way they are conducting this charade they are making fools of themselves and helping Trump at the same time.


so i wonder what they'll try to impeach Trump on during his second term??

For the record, this will be the third time the Dims have voted on the impeachment of Trump.

Originally Posted by bambino

They’ll be in the minority.

We can only hope but that didn't stop them one other time back in 2017.

Originally Posted by SpeedRacerXXX

If Trump told the Ukrainian President to investigate wrong-doing between Joe and Hunter Biden in order to receive money from the U.S., is that an impeachable offense?

The incident happened in 2016. It is now the end of 2019 and Joe Biden is one of the leading contenders trying to unseat Trump in 2020. Bad timing by Trump, if nothing else. Looks like he is taking action solely for political reasons. At no time in the past 3 years has anyone come forward and accused Joe Biden of acting inappropriately when he threatened to withheld $1 billion in U.S. aid from the Ukraine unless the Ukraine fired Viktor Sholkin. Now it is a problem.

I think the investigation is being handled rather well. A supposedly reputable person comes forward and accuses the POTUS of inappropriate behavior which may or may not be impeachable. It should be investigated. Maybe the process should have been different but there is no set protocol for impeachment proceedings. Eventually, if the full House decides that Trump's actions were impeachable, the matter will be put to a vote and I'm sure the vote will be mostly along party lines. Then it will move to the Senate for a trial and again, I expect the vote to be mostly along party lines.

We can all speculate that if Trump is impeached by the House and not convicted by the Senate, which party will benefit the most from it.

Biden acted inappropriately but who was going to investigate? Strzok? Lynch? They weren't going to charge even with Biden's admission of wrong doing.

Originally Posted by SpeedRacerXXX

I was not in any way referring to the Mueller investigation. But the fact is that every security expert in this country believes Russia interfered in the 2016 elections. Do you believe otherwise?

There was very little, if any, Russian interference. As stated before, EVERY STATE CERTIFIED THEIR ELECTION RESULTS. No state AG or polling authority has come forward with evidence of Russian interference.

You, along with many others, are trying to conflate "meddling" with "interference". Many security experts have said that there is very little evidence of meddling. Wikileaks said they didn't get their info from the Russians. The Crowdstrike report is only a draft. The FBI was never allowed to examine the DNC server. The ads that "Russian bot farms" spent on Facebook and other social media sites were paltry and very poorly done. Many were done AFTER the election and were for Hillary.

[SpeedRacerXXX]

Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid

do you believe Clinton paid foreign actor Steele to get false dirt from the Russians to interfere with the 2016 election? Yes or Yes.


BAHHAAAA

I think Clinton paid Steele to dig up dirt, not false dirt.
BAHHAAAA.