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Steve Bannon, Trump's former White House chief strategist, says he worked to remove alleged Ukraine whistleblower Eric Ciaramella from the National Security Council in 2017. Bannon added that he had worked to kick Ciaramella off the NSC during Trump’s first year in office. Bannon did not name Ciaramella, a career CIA analyst, but clearly referred to him. There was a story in the Washington Times yesterday that tied me to the efforts to get the — at least the gentleman who was named — out of the National Security Council,” Bannon said during a Vice interview with Liz Landers last...

In the current impeachment hearing, Rep. Adam Schiff has maintained a firm hold on what witnesses can be called and what questions can be asked. From the very beginning of the hearing when asked when and if the whistleblower could testify under closed hearings, Schiff made it clear that the identity of the whistleblower was not to be shared. He even claimed publicly at the start of the Wednesday hearing that he did “not know the identity of the whistleblower.” This whole hearing should begin with the "whistleblower," the government employee who brought the complaint to Schiff about the phone...

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., gave strict orders to President Trump not to “intimidate” the whistleblower who sparked the House impeachment inquiry into the president – telling Trump that he was in her “wheelhouse” if he attempted to go after the anonymous source. "I will make sure he does not intimidate the whistleblower," Pelosi said during an interview on CBS' "Face The Nation.” "I told the president you're in my wheelhouse when you come after the whistleblower." Pelosi’s words come as the House Intelligence Committee is in the midst of public hearings with officials about Trump’s now infamous July 25...

Thanks to disgraced FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, who told us in a text message that “POTUS wants to know everything we’re doing,” we know that President Obama was kept fully informed about the deep-state coup against President Trump. Liar and leaker James Clapper has thrown Obama under the bus by saying the plotters would not have proceeded without President Obama’s approval. In a CNN interview deep-state conspirator and perjurer James Clapper gave with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, he points his finger directly at Obama as leader of the coup against Donald Trump:

In the second round of the impeachment hearings, Rep. Stefanik called out Adam Schiff to his face for blocking any questioning of the Whistleblower. This is after Schiff himself said we need to hear from the whistleblower.

The Democrat whistleblower that Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi are propping up in their hollow impeachment attacks on President Trump could be subject to felony false statement charges for not disclosing that he had contacted Schiff before filing his complaint. Because the whistleblower never disclosed his contacts with Schiff and the House Intelligence Committee (of which Schiff is chairman), the intelligence committee inspector general (ICIG) testified that he “had no knowledge of” the improper contacts. So he never looked into it. The Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act requires whistleblowers to contact the Intelligence Committee Inspector General BEFORE contacting Congressional staffers....

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Because I live in Spain and have a 6 hour time difference I'm asleep when most of the prime time programs are on. For that reason I watch shows like Tucker Carlson Tonight on Youtube when I wake up. On today's show he was talking about how Facebook, Google and Youtube are censoring the news and said that they blocked Mollie Hemmingway's mention of Eric Ciaramella on the Howie Kurz show "Spin cycle" Since Youtube is where I saw both spin cycle and Mollie I decided to look again this morning and this screenshot is from me watching Youtube about...

The ghost in the coldest room on Capitol Hill on Day One of the Democrats’ impeachment hearing was their so-called whistleblower. The one person who should have kicked off the case against Donald Trump was nowhere to be seen. But the truth is that the anonymous complainant who triggered this latest gambit to overturn the 2016 election is not really a whistleblower, as we understand the word, a heroic figure with first-hand documented knowledge of wrongdoing who divulges that information to the proper authorities as a public service and usually at personal cost. The word does not cover a partisan...

The same networks working to protect the identity of a leaker that may or may not be ‘Eric C’ with respect to impeachment, they are DESPERATE to ‘out’ their own whistleblower. It seems a little bit ethically dishonest, doesn’t it? Someone can release information intended to be damaging to the President without any fear of contradiction or scrutiny, but ABC has already reached out to another network to request the firing of someone ABC had assumed was the whistleblower. The person they had fired maintained her innocence and that was upheld by Project Veritas itself, who published a message sent...

I, for one, have grown weary of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), appearing on every other talk show bloviating about spygate, Ukrainegate, collusiongate, and all the wrongs committed against the Trump presidency and then doing nothing to fight back other than getting his face in front of the camera. Lindsey, do your job or get off the pot -- call some hearings, as you promised, and go for the Democrat’s jugular. Show that passion you showed during the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh when you went on an epic rant against that bevy of Democratic presidential wannabes who...

And we should believe Adam Schiff because of, er, his long track record of honesty about his contacts with the whistleblower? Come on, man. The chair of the impeachment inquiry hearings accused Rep. Jim Jordan of issuing a “false statement” in claiming that he knew the identity of the whistleblower. After getting four Pinocchios from the Washington Post for lying about contacts between his office and the whistleblower, Schiff’s hardly in position to complain — or to be taken at his word: “The only times I prevented witnesses from answering questions” in prior closed-door hearings “was when it was...

FULL UNALTERED TITLE: HUGE! — ‘Whistleblower” Eric Ciaramella Was Hosting 2016 WH Meeting Where Ukrainian Officials Were Told to Drop Investigation on Hunter Biden! This explains it. Anti-Trump CIA whistleblower Eric Ciaramella filed his second-hand “whistleblower” complaint against President Trump after speaking with Adam Schiff’s team in September. Ciaramella claimed he was concerned about President Trump’s discussion of Hunter Biden during his call with Ukrainian President Zelensky. Now we know why Ciaramella was so concerned. According to White House visitor logs Eric Ciaramella was hosting the January 19, 2016 White House meeting where Ukrainian officials were told to drop the...

1) Impeachment 24/7. The “inquiry,” supposedly prompted by President Trump’s Ukrainian call, is only the most recent coup seeking to overturn the 2016 election. Usually, the serial futile attempts — with the exception of the Mueller debacle — were characterized by about a month of media hysteria. We remember the voting-machines-fraud hoax, the Logan Act, the Emoluments Clause, the 25th Amendment, the McCabe-Rosenstein faux coup and various Michael Avenatti–Stormy Daniels–Michael Cohen psychodramas. Ukraine, then, isn’t unique, but simply another mini-coup. 2) False whistleblowers. The “whistleblower” is no whistleblower by any common definition of the noun. He has no incriminating documents,...

Criticize a whistleblower, go to Ethics jail? Adam Schiff didn’t get quite that explicit in his memo today outlining the rules of the impeachment inquiry hearings, but that certainly seems to be the subtext. Schiff instructed House Intelligence panel members that they’d better not “facilitate any efforts by President Trump or his allies to threaten, intimidate, or retaliate against the whistleblower who courageously and lawfully raised concerns about the President’s conduct.” In the first place, there is no law prohibiting the disclosure of the identity of a whistleblower who becomes part of an investigation..

Full title: “He’s Not Voldemort… Eric Ciaramella Is a Deep State Conspirator” – GOP Freshman Dan Bishop Is First Lawmaker to Publicly Out Schiff Sham Leaker" Excerpt: Congressman-elect Dan Bishop in September credited President Donald Trump’s endorsement and last-minute trip to the district this week with helping him win the North Carolina 9th Congressional District special election. On Tuesday Democrat coup leader Adam Schiff warned Republicans not to mention the name of the anti-Trump CIA spy and leaker, Eric Ciaramella, during the House hearings this week for face ethics complaints. Democrats believe they can impeach a US president without releasing...

Full title: Schiff Threatens Republicans: Don't Criticize the Whistleblower During Public Impeachment Hearings or Else House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff is threatening Republican lawmakers ahead of the first public impeachment inquiry hearing on Wednesday and warning that any criticism of the whistleblower could prompt an Ethics Committee investigation. Schiff is also going out of his way to protect the Biden's from scrutiny. "As explained in my November 9, 2019, response to the Ranking Member, it is important to underscore that the House's impeachment inquiry, and the Committee, will not serve as venues for any Member to further the same...

Journalist Tim Pool claimed a video he produced about alleged whistleblower Eric Ciaramella was blocked by YouTube.Pool posted a screenshot of the notification YouTube gave him revealing that his video titled “Democrats formalize impeachment, but whistleblower identity exposes this as a political hit job” was forced to remain listed as private, meaning no users can access the video.The video, which was posted on Oct. 31, gathered 281,779 views before being blocked by the platform. YouTube, whose parent company is Google, confirmed the decision to block the video with a manual review that confirmed the algorithm's decision.Pool claimed YouTube was...

What is happening to the practice of journalism today? From the way it seems, fair reporting is literally crumbling under the pressure from propping up one-sided political narratives. The action (and in many cases, blatant inaction) of reporters and corporate leadership is destroying all trust and credibility left in the Fourth Estate. It is like journalists are afraid to report what is really going on in the world – or being directed by bosses to ignore critical information. Millions of Americans were shocked to learn that Fox News anchors have been directly prohibited by company executives from identifying the so-called...