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Good Thread (it took Podesta 2 years to come up with a “whistleblower” ROFL)

https://twitter.com/rising_serpent/status/1181408831269740544

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1181408831269740544.html

1. From September 2, 2017: Whistleblower Aid, a “Nonpartisan” Group Offering Help to D.C. Whistleblowers is Connected to the left.
Yes, Democrats had the whistleblower angle as their contingency plan over 2 years ago.
‘Nonpartisan’ Group Offering Help to D.C. Whistleblowers Connected to Progressives
A newly formed “nonpartisan” legal nonprofit for whistleblowers has launched a full-scale public relations effort in D.C. promoting its services.
https://freebeacon.com/issues/nonpartisan-group-offering-help-to-d-c-whistleblowers-connected-to-progressives/

2. It “arose out of concern emanating from the Trump administration” in 2017.
Whistleblower aid is connected to the southern poverty law center, John Podesta and has Mark Zaid, the Trump Ukraine whistleblower attorney, at the center of the organization.

3. “Today our Republic is under threat. Whistleblower Aid is committed to protecting the rule of law in the United States and around the world,”
Whistleblower Aid
Report government & corporate lawbreaking. Without breaking the law.
https://whistlebloweraid.org/mission/

4. John Tye, a former government whistleblower at the U.S. Department of State, is a cofounder of Whistleblower Aid. Tye previously worked at the Southern Poverty Law Center.

5. Tye also worked at Avaaz, a liberal organization that pushes global activism on issues such as climate change.
secure.avaaz.org/page/en/about/

6. Mark Zaid, a Maryland-based attorney who represented Tye and other whistleblowers and who is the nonprofit’s other cofounder, is the executive director of another group called the James Madison Project, the website of which lists John Podesta as being on its board of advisers.

7. Zaid also made donations in the past to his local Democratic Party in Maryland.
Zaid claims it is a non-partisan organization.

8. Zaid explained: “What prompted the organization to be founded is John Tye’s experiences as being a whistleblower himself in 2014 when I represented him. A more, let’s say intense community now since Donald Trump was elected president”
Isn’t this the opposite of non-partisan?

9. When asked why the group was not founded prior to the Trump Administration—given President Obama’s use of the Espionage Act to crack down on whistleblowers more than any previous administration—Zaid said that he doesn’t believe that’s what Obama was doing.
Mmmkay...

10. “I’m on record giving many speeches that I don’t think that’s at all what Obama was doing. I don’t think that there was a war against whistleblowers, I don’t think he abused the Espionage Act. I don’t think all the people he prosecuted were whistleblowers,” said Zaid

11. Back in 2017, Zaid claimed that he did not know who was funding the group he co-founded. Tye is in charge of its financial side, he said.
So the co-founder of a whistleblower advocacy group doesn’t know where the money was coming from?
Mmmkay...

12. Of course, now in a maneuver eerily reminiscent of Peter Strzok, John McCabe and Christine Blasey Ford, the legal costs for the anonymous whistleblower are being covered through GoFundMe funding.
It’s virtually untraceable you see.
A GoFundMe has raised over $70k to cover legal fees for anonymous Ukraine whistleblower
The whistleblower who filed a complaint about President Donald Trump’s call to the Ukrainian president has so far received over $70k dedicated to legal aid through GoFundMe.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/09/26/whistleblower-lawyers-nonprofit-raise-tens-thousands-legal-aid/3775220002/

13. When in doubt follow the money: ask “is the eye of Sauron (Soros) casting its fiery eye upon this dark alliance?”

14. Avaaz, the radical group where Tye served as campaign and legal director, was founded in 1997 by the Soros-funded, partisan MoveOn org organization and by the Soros-funded Res Publica activist group.

15. Tax forms from Soros’s Open Society document donations to Res Publica specifically earmarked for support to Avaaz. Res Publica oversees Avaaz activism.
newsthud.com/team-behind-wh…

16. The same year that Whistleblower Aid was founded, Avaaz’s former general counsel and campaign director, Ian Bassin formed United to Protect Democracy, a group of former top lawyers Obama administration lawyers utilizing legal advocacy to oppose Trump’s policies.

17. Bassin’s United to Protect Democracy works in partnership with the Brennan Center for Justice, located at NYU School of Law. The Brennan Center is heavily financed by Soros’s Open Society Foundations and is the recipient of numerous Open Society grants.

18. Zaid has made more than $3,400 in contributions to his local Democratic Party in Maryland. Zaid said that they were not outright “donations”, but money he paid into silent auctions at annual spring balls for the Democratic Party that he attended as a guest.

19. Zaid said politicians would auction off lunches and he won a lunch with then Dem representative Chris Van Hollen. His law firm covered the costs for Van Hollen’s lunch. Zaid then testified in front of Van Hollen who of course supported whistleblowers and classification reform

20. In case you didn’t know, Mark Zaid is the lawyer for the anonymous Trump Ukraine phone call “whistleblowers”
In essence, he’s the Micheal Avenatti of the whistleblower hoax, deeply connected to Dems, virulently anti-Trump, & gleefully unscrupulous
-Fin