the article is by Julian E. Barnes and Matthew Rosenberg; it is posted on Yahoo, so no paywall, because it needs to be spread, because it is FakeNews:
Wikipedia: Matthew Rosenberg
Rosenberg was part of a team of New York Times reporters who won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2018 for reporting on Donald Trump’s advisers and their connections to Russia...
On November 5, 2009, The Nation newspaper in Pakistan printed a front-page story that accused Rosenberg of being a spy. The story claimed that Rosenberg worked for the CIA and the U.S. security contractor formerly known as Blackwater...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Rosenberg
NYT: Julian E. Barnes is a national security reporter for The New York Times covering the intelligence agencies. Before joining the Times’s Washington bureau in 2018, he wrote about security matters for The Wall Street Journal...
read dozens of comments - all willing to go along with every word these two characters have written.
love how the article ends with quote from “former” CIA guy, Marc Polymeropoulos.
6 Nov: Washington Examiner: Spies urge CIA Director Gina Haspel to protect whistleblower from Trump
by Daniel Chaitin
But current and former officials told NBC News she should protect the anonymity of the whistleblower, a career CIA analyst. Some have said she should resign if Trump reveals the name.
“It will be incumbent on her to protect the whistleblower — and by extension, the organization — moving forward,” said Marc Polymeropoulos, a senior CIA operations officer who recently retired. “This is a seminal moment for her leadership, and I’m confident she will do the right thing.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/intelligence-veterans-hope-cia-director-gina-haspel-will-protect-whistleblower-from-trump
CIA is on the board of Burisma which Biden was on until recently. Or maybe former CIA, if there’s a difference.