Posted on 11/07/2019 8:11:24 PM PST by bitt
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) said on Thursday that he does not think the identity of the whistleblower at the center of the House impeachment inquiry should be publicly disclosed.
Asked by reporters if he wanted the individual's identity to be made public, Burr told reporters that he "never" thought that.
"We protect whistleblowers. We protect witnesses in our committee," Burr added.
His comments come as President Trump and some of his allies on Capitol Hill have called for the whistleblower to come forward and for the individual's name to be publicly released.
"[But] I think we should allow the president to know who the accuser is. And I think the whistleblower statute is being terribly abused here," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, told reporters earlier this week.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) also called for the media to publicly out the whistleblower during a rally with Trump in Kentucky — to the consternation of many of his colleagues — telling reporters: "Do your job and print his name."
Burr's committee is reviewing the process behind the whistleblower complaint, the handling of which created a high-profile split within the administration.
The complaint — tied to Trump asking Ukraine to open a probe into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden — is also at the center of the House impeachment inquiry, which is looking into whether or not Trump conditioned aid to the country on it agreeing to open up an investigation.
Burr, however, does want to speak with the whistleblower as part of his committee's investigation into the process.
Lawyers for the whistleblower have offered to have the individual provide written answers to questions under oath. But Burr told The Hill late last week that the setup was "not acceptable."
“We have a proven track record of protecting people's identity,” Burr added at the time. He added on Thursday that he believed the whistleblower's attorneys had done a "reversal" since they made initial contact about making the individual available.
"I just think that they were disingenuous when they ... sent us a letter saying how anxious they were to come before the committee," he added.
Burr is useless...
We Don’t care what he thinks.
Everybody knows his name.
Stop pretending it’s not known.
Eric Ciaramella
Burr is one of the worst Bush League Republicans.
We have to stop re-electing them or we will never Make America Great Again.
Worse than that. I think he’s dirty.
They proved that by changing the rules to allow hearsay AFTER he came forward, but before it was made public.
NO, NO HE’S NOT.
He’s not useless at all to the deep state.
And Mitch’s TEPID response, AT BEST yesterday when asked f the senate would kick Trump out with the info available right now.
They’re not just USELESS. They’re dangerous.
And I don’t see how anyone here thinks there’s NO CCHANCE Rs would do what most here think is the unthinkable.
Maybe it’s a small chance.
But we NEVER EVER EVER learn our lesson.
They are ALL snakes in the grass, or most are.
Nothing is a given until it’s done and over with
The guy is neither a whistleblower, nor a witness. He is a traitor and a spy.
And Burr is corrupt.
By the way was Zaid the last guy to visit Epstein in jail, just asking?
Isn’t being able to face ones accuser in court part of due process?
Pretty hard to do that if you don’t know your accuser’s identity.
Or is that too idealistic?
The seditious spy is a player, and right dab in the middle of everything from the very beginning. Breitbart had a fairly enlightening article on the man tonight linking him even with Christopher Steele.
Good for him
Too late.
North Carolina.Please get rid of this idiot.
At this point, you’d have to be living under a rock in the middle of the Australian Outback NOT to have heard his identity. Why is anyone pretending otherwise?
Round’em up, hang’em high!
Traitor(R)s.
Hope he gets beat next time he is up for election.
Yawn... the corrupt press protect this dude but prints the Pentagon Papers?
[[”We protect whistleblowers. We protect witnesses in our committee,” Burr added. ]]
Well ya did a piss poor job burr- the name is out-
If a whistleblower becomes a witness in a trial then they are no longer entitled to secrecy. Even congress can make no law to go against the constitutional right to face ones accuser, and to be able to prepare a defense against said accuser.
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