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Senate Intel chair doesn't want whistleblower's identity disclosed
The Hill ^ | 11/7/2019 | JORDAIN CARNEY

Posted on 11/07/2019 8:11:24 PM PST by bitt

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To: Alberta's Child

“...under oath...” doesn’t mean a whole hell of a lot anymore. This isn’t grand daddy’s America. Liars are gonna lie and smirk in your face.


41 posted on 11/08/2019 12:34:56 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: bitt

Why do these people roll over so easily when the Dems want them to?


42 posted on 11/08/2019 1:12:27 AM PST by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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To: bitt
What is with these lame politicians?

Like it or not, the WB's name is already plastered all over the internet media.

Everybody but these ignorant politicians knows who this guy is.

And they know his partisan background and his reputation for hating Trump.

The director of national intelligence has an obligation by law to not expose his name and to prevent retaliation against him.

But otherwise, it's open season for anybody else, including politicians, the media and private citizens to release his name and they are not breaking the law.

We have a bunch of clowns running the show. But then I digress....

43 posted on 11/08/2019 1:48:18 AM PST by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: Let's Roll
-- Isn't being able to face ones accuser in court part of due process? --

It is, but even that is mangled in certain cases. That said, the right, the the extent it is enforced, exists post-indictment. The parallel here would be post-articles-of-impeachment.

That said, I think the better angle in this case is to flip the table, and accuse the so-called whistleblower. He is a leaker. There is a possibility the so-called whistleblower committed a crime. There is no right to be an anonymous criminal.

44 posted on 11/08/2019 2:08:18 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Let's Roll
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?

If you really think this, go back and re-read the story of Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman.

The fat young girl who was supposedly on the phone with Trayvon testified, but the corrupt judge withheld her identity until the moment she appeared in court. This deprived the defense of the opportunity to do a background investigation on her and be prepared with a line of questioning.

Fortunately she was so inept that she came off poorly and Zimmerman was acquitted, as he should have been.

In this case it would handicap the President's case immensely if the "whistleblower" identity was not know well before the Senate trial.

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We have all fallen for the Ciaramella name, hook, line and sinker. What if there is a second one, or what if his name is just a ruse and there is really someone else?

Since we control the Senate. I doubt there is a huge issue, but the pretend secrecy about this makes me wonder if they are hiding someone different by throwing out the name of a low-level, low-wattage hack.

45 posted on 11/08/2019 3:12:24 AM PST by CurlyDave
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To: bitt

Not up to you douche


46 posted on 11/08/2019 3:49:20 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: bitt

I think they must have pictures of Burr in “Leather Lad” regalia, in an S&M dungeon, wearing buttless chaps.

Obviously, somebody has him on a leash.


47 posted on 11/08/2019 4:11:27 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: bitt

Burr is playing tiddlywinks while the Rats are burning down the house.


48 posted on 11/08/2019 4:11:58 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: knighthawk
Why do these people roll over so easily when the Dems want them to?


49 posted on 11/08/2019 4:23:57 AM PST by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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To: bitt

Well the Dems set the rules so what do you expect. He is not a whistleblower, he is a spy.


50 posted on 11/08/2019 4:42:41 AM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: bitt

“He who shall not be named.”

The real issue here isn’t the whistle-blower’s identity; its preventing him from being questioned. As long as Congress pretends they don’t know who he is, they can’t ask him to come in to experience adversarial questions.


51 posted on 11/08/2019 5:28:28 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Destroyer Sailor

Burr is not going to run in 2022. Unfortunately, he will do damage until then.


52 posted on 11/08/2019 6:11:54 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.)
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To: knighthawk

Burr is the swamp. The senate intel committee believes CIA lies about Russia.


53 posted on 11/08/2019 6:15:23 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I’m serious.

We need to blow this up by posting the guy’s name in every available public space.

Wave it on signs in sports crowds. Put it on t-shirts and walk into live TV broadcasts. Hire planes to tow it around the sky on banners.


54 posted on 11/08/2019 6:22:47 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: bitt
He is not a whistle blower, he is a lying traitor. I can see why the Republicans want to protect him. He plays for their team. The Republicans want to get President Trump out of the White House just as bad or worse than the Democrats do. Given a choice, the Republican Party would have preferred Hillary Clinton by a wide margin. In fact, I read that several prominent Republicans voted for over Donald Trump. Why do the Republicans secretly hate President Trump? Simple. He is, as the old saying goes, hitting them in their pocketbook. How? He is stopping the flow of graft money from defense contractors by ending our involvement in endless and winless wars that only get our Servicemen and Women killed and withdrawing from treaties and agreements that harm the Citizens of the United States.
55 posted on 11/08/2019 6:45:46 AM PST by sport
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Everybody knows his name. Stop pretending it’s not known.

I would at least consider the possibility that Ciamarella (you can't spell it without C-I-A) is a fictitious character or a decoy to hide the identity of the real traitor.

56 posted on 11/08/2019 6:48:16 AM PST by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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To: bitt

I think that train already left the station.


57 posted on 11/08/2019 7:08:29 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: bitt

Seriously asking...what reason do they have in trying to keep the name secret...when we all know it?


58 posted on 11/08/2019 7:08:51 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (Congress is not made up of leaders however they are representatives of their voters.)
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To: bitt

Burr has not supported the President or even been fair in his committee chairmanship. Time to go


59 posted on 11/08/2019 5:01:35 PM PST by wildbill
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