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Schumer warns Intel officials that Trump could expose whistleblower
The Hill ^ | 10/21/19 | Jordain Carney

Posted on 10/21/2019 1:25:05 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is warning top intelligence community officials that President Trump could expose a whistleblower at the center of the House impeachment inquiry.

Schumer sent a letter to Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire and Inspector General Michael Atkinson on Monday saying he's "concerned" Trump might disclose the individual's identity and wants to know what steps are being taken to protect the person.

"In light of the President’s ill-advised statements, his lack of respect for the rule of law and his well-documented habit of condoning violence by his supporters, I am concerned that he may disclose the whistleblower’s identity or cause it to be disclosed by others in the Administration," Schumer wrote in the letter.

Trump and his allies have repeatedly lashed out at the whistleblower, who filed a complaint tied to Trump pushing the Ukraine government to investigate the Bidens and the administration's decision to delay aid to the country.

Schumer's letter, which was first reported by Politico, comes shortly after Trump used a Cabinet meeting to double down on his demand that the whistleblower be publicly identified.

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KEYWORDS: impeachment; schumer; trump; whistelblower
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To: b4its2late

Nope... Eric Ciaramello

99.999999% certain it is him. He is not a weaselsucker. He is a partisan spy who lied his ass off. He is also now very nervous. When that percentage hits 100% he will maybe get a job on AOC’s staff but no one anywhere else will touch him again. He will be political radioactive waste.


41 posted on 10/21/2019 1:48:29 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (TRUMP TRAIN !!! Get the hell out of the way if you are not on yet because we don't stop for idiots)
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To: yesthatjallen; All
He should never be called a "whistleblower". He is a leaker.

The term "whistleblower" is just lawfare he is using to hide.

42 posted on 10/21/2019 1:49:04 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: All

IMHO the whistleblower was complicit in the Biden extortion. Knowing Trump was getting close, he blew the whistle to protect himself against prosecution. His sole goal was to stop investigations into Ukraine entirely.


43 posted on 10/21/2019 1:49:16 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Sorry. Correction: CIARAMELLA


44 posted on 10/21/2019 1:49:34 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (TRUMP TRAIN !!! Get the hell out of the way if you are not on yet because we don't stop for idiots)
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To: yesthatjallen

It doesn’t take “a Schumer” to tell what direction the wind blows ..

Or something like that.


45 posted on 10/21/2019 1:50:08 PM PDT by _Jim (Save babies)
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To: Williams
-- ... this government is no longer legitimate. --

Quite a few people crossed that bridge years ago, even before Trump came along and made the rot obvious.

SCOTUS literally hallucinates rights into being. Commerce clause make a mockery of "limited powers" in Art I, Sec. 8. Judges literally LIE about what precedents stand for, so the RKBA can be gradually stripped from the public.

46 posted on 10/21/2019 1:50:19 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: yesthatjallen

Hey @sshole we all know he they are


47 posted on 10/21/2019 1:56:40 PM PDT by nikos1121
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To: odawg
“The democrats are continuously outplaying the Republican. They have the field all to themselves. The Republicans are not even on the field.”

True, but owning the media is 90% of the battle.

48 posted on 10/21/2019 1:59:10 PM PDT by daler
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To: yesthatjallen

The Sixth Amendment is known as the “Confrontation Clause” and it states “in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right…to be confronted with the witnesses against him.”. The President is definitely going to enjoy it !


49 posted on 10/21/2019 1:59:31 PM PDT by DocRock (And now is the time to fight! Peter Muhlenberg)
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To: ought-six

You’re exactly right. There is no whistleblower. It’s all made up.


50 posted on 10/21/2019 1:59:56 PM PDT by abbastanza
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To: yesthatjallen
If the whistleblower is formally identified, he will be questioned: informally by the press; and formally, the moment he appears under oath in any proceeding in which Republicans can ask questions.

He would be asked who he consulted and when, and who actually wrote the complaint letter to which he affixed his signature.

51 posted on 10/21/2019 2:00:04 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: yesthatjallen

The President certainly has the authority to name, and to prosecute, this individual.


52 posted on 10/21/2019 2:00:24 PM PDT by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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To: lastchance

Since Schiff said the whistle blowers testimony will not be used, as far as I can tell, the whistle blower no longer needs to be private. Just expose them via a proxy. Say a congressional aid that wishes to remain nameless leaked it to Fox News.


53 posted on 10/21/2019 2:00:27 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (When you think about what the left is doing to America, think no further than Cloward-Piven)
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To: nikos1121

Hopefully, the “whistle blower” will be outed, arrested and hanged. Of course, that is after arrest, fair trial and conviction.


54 posted on 10/21/2019 2:02:00 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reefucation Camp???)
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To: wiseprince

There are outright lunatics all across the political spectrum.


55 posted on 10/21/2019 2:09:45 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Specialization is for insects.)
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To: yesthatjallen

The Sixth Amendment:
The Right to Confront Your Accusers


56 posted on 10/21/2019 2:13:21 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: ocrp1982
Agreed. We've seen this time and time again. 100% SOROS, IMO.

The extent to which Team Soros runs the Deep State's shadow government hell bent to subvert and CRIMINALIZE TRUMP'S AUTHORITY cannot be overstated.

57 posted on 10/21/2019 2:23:06 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: bray

“He’s already been revealed if you look on the internet.”

Who is he?


58 posted on 10/21/2019 2:28:20 PM PDT by Ken H (Crooked Hillary => Queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, personification of rot)
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To: DocRock
The Sixth Amendment is known as the “Confrontation Clause” and it states “in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right…to be confronted with the witnesses against him.”. The President is definitely going to enjoy it !

Which is precisely why the "whistleblower" will NOT be called as a witness. HE/SHE DIDN'T WITNESS ANYTHING THAT WOULD BE ACCEPTED AS EVIDENCE IN A COURT OF LAW!! Everything in the filed document was hearsay. And the parties who supposedly provided information to this "whistleblower" are, themselves, anonymous since they were not cited in the original report.

Thus, there are no witnesses to be confronted.

59 posted on 10/21/2019 2:33:49 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: yesthatjallen

The “whistleblower” is Adam Schiff’s staff.


60 posted on 10/21/2019 2:33:52 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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