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OUTED: Whistleblower Eric Ciaramella: Is this the best they've got?
American Thinker ^ | 10/31/2019 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 10/31/2019 6:59:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Well, Happy Halloween.

The whistleblower is now pretty well outed by investigative journalist Paul Sperry and it's prettu underwhelming. He's been identified as one Eric Ciaramella, 33, prep school grad, Yalie, Obama backwash, political operative, and fanatic Trump hater. Hardly the Mister Probity concerned about national security that he's been painted.

Sperry did the digging, but pointed out that that the man's identity had been an open secret in the Beltway, with mainstream media doing their darndest to keep his name from being attached to his rather spectacular charges.

Federal documents reveal that the 33-year-old Ciaramella, a registered Democrat held over from the Obama White House, previously worked with former Vice President Joe Biden and former CIA Director John Brennan, a vocal critic of Trump who helped initiate the Russia “collusion” investigation of the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.

Ciaramella's name should be out there because it's rather relevant whether all the hearsay in his legally couched charge was actually made in good faith or was just another leftist smear job under cover of government mechanisms, same as the Trump dossier.

Based on Sperry's digging, it certainly looks like the latter. 

From Sperry's reporting, we learn that this creep wasn't trying to make anything better within government, which is what whistleblower protections are for. He was just another leftist trying to overturn the 2016 election, and it dated from way back, starting with his propensity to leak.

In May 2017, Ciaramella went “outside his chain of command,” according to a former NSC co-worker, to send an email alerting another agency that Trump happened to hold a meeting with Russian diplomats in the Oval Office the day after firing Comey, who led the Trump-Russia investigation. The email also noted that Russian President Vladimir Putin had phoned the president a week earlier.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: ericciaramella; impeachment; ukraine; whistleblower
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To: A_Former_Democrat

I have always thought Brennan was behind the whole Russian Hoax with or without Obama’s permission. Brennan is an evil person. Whether or not he will be prosecuted is an open question (Probably not).


61 posted on 10/31/2019 9:03:38 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: SeekAndFind

Looks a lot like a Ford-Kavanaugh redux.


62 posted on 10/31/2019 9:14:30 AM PDT by Amish with an attitude
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To: SeekAndFind
The federal Whistleblower Protection Act of 1986 protects whistleblowers from retaliation for whistleblowing, it does not protect their IDENTITY.
63 posted on 10/31/2019 9:15:01 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

Beat me to it. My first question to him would be who his CC is and then I’d tell him I was gonna ask his CC why he has not instituted separation for his not meeting Army weight and fitness standards ...


64 posted on 10/31/2019 9:31:45 AM PDT by Simon Foxx
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To: SeekAndFind
Yes, because Cinderfella is the textbook example of a cut-out. A beta male who estimates he's the smartest guy in the room, and just the right age to be convinced to take the risk, by old guys who know exactly how to manipulate a beta male who estimates he's the smartest guy in the room.

Airwick is the classic Millenial, these dopey kids were ruined in pubrik school and are easily identified by their complete lack of self-awareness, and in particular their inability to regard the null set:

"Why would the CIA and Schiff agree so whole-heartedly to allow a G-13 to be the point man on impeaching the President of the free world?"

It only occurred to him after, LONG AFTER submitting the altered form, when the Company sat him down and said, 'you need a detail'.

65 posted on 10/31/2019 9:35:42 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (CNN's Dana B: "Show of hands: Coverage for undocumented immigrants?" ***all Democrat hands raised***)
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To: xzins

I think the Mil8tary guy who testified yesterday was the one WHO LEAKED classified information phone call and that is how this POS got the information!!!


66 posted on 10/31/2019 10:09:36 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Kahuna

T/Y


67 posted on 10/31/2019 10:29:54 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

If one were to be allowed to go through the parking lots of the CIA, DIA, NSA, DOS and GeoSpatial Intel, one would probably be shocked at how many: I’m With Her, Sanders, Warren, Clinton, Yang, etc...bumper stickers are attached to the vehicles of those that work in those agencies. And that’s just the ones that are willing to show who they stand with. That’s not counting the liberal Senior Military folks at the Pentagon/DOD and all the other SES folks, that have made it to the top floors and look down their noses at all of us, secure with their 6-figure jobs and pensions(Lerner, Koskinen, McRaven, and all the other retired Leftist the MSM trots out).

Does that mean that everyone of them is a partisan political hack, like this clown, Ciaramella? Not at all. Once he is outed, I’m really looking forward to seeing his resume. I immediately thought of Braveheart. The scene where Longshanks son tries to talk about his boyfriend and is summarily tossed out a window. I could be wrong, but something tells me that Ciaramella didn’t spend too much time as an 11Bravo or 0311, and he’s nothing more than a political hack that knew the right people and got his PoliSci or Government degree from the right school, which makes him smarter than most folks. Right? I’ll gladly admit I’m wrong.

But, nor are the ‘rank & file’ of these agencies filled with American Patriots that want nothing but the best for this country and its citizens.

I’d be willing to bet that most, if not all, of the folks doing the “dirty work” are all about the US of A and the President. Unfortunately, those folks are rarely, if at all, allowed to rise the ranks, since they talk gruff, direct, to the point and don’t try to impress anyone with the mastery of the Webster’s dictionary. Kind of like someone else, who happens to occupy the White House.

These folks didn’t go to the Ivy League or Georgetown, if they even went to college, so they don’t get invited to parties or asked for an opinion. They’re just there to do the grunt work. Unfortunately, their numbers are few, compared to the administrative and SES types making the decisions.


68 posted on 10/31/2019 10:37:30 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: xzins

But, the leaker from the WH, also a leftist hack, passed it to him to get some insulation. Now, it appears it will all backfire.


69 posted on 10/31/2019 10:39:07 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: Liz

I think this is absolutely the truth at the bottom of this whole thing! ( not to say Dems dont have setups like this in many countries receiving aide, just that Trump got too close here)


70 posted on 10/31/2019 10:39:40 AM PDT by boxlunch (Pray for President Trump! Disband the Democrat Media Communist Complex!)
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To: lodi90

That means that for the first time in a long time, actual, Patriots, could get those jobs and do the right thing for the country and the citizens.


71 posted on 10/31/2019 10:40:33 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: Artcore

How true! How true!

Soyboys one and all.


72 posted on 10/31/2019 10:49:14 AM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

For those that stay in the military, in the hopes of getting rank, when you hit, O-5(Lt Col/Commander), you come to a crossroads or the end of the road. You’ll have a pretty good idea, whether or not you make O-6(Colonel/Captain). So, you decide to stay in, roll the dice that you’ll make O-6 or get passed over a time or two before the powers that be, tell you it’s time to put in your papers. Those promotions aren’t given out like candy. So, for many, LtCol is the end of the road.

I don’t think any of us would be shocked to learn that a meeting was had and it was presented to Vindman that, at least, a Bird or Star could soon be on his shoulder if he said the right things and helped the Dem’s with the President.

What boggles my mind is, how was he even allowed to go before Congress? He’s a military officer and takes his orders from the CINC, not Schiff or Nadler. I didn’t think they would be able to testify to anyone, over something like this, especially when he was giving “opinion” and not presenting actual facts. But, then again, the President could have let him hang himself, knowing that he’ll get caught up in something and go through UCMJ and lose everything.

Only way that would get better is if McRaven joined him at the hearing where they both lost their rank and all benefits.


73 posted on 10/31/2019 10:56:08 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: Thank You Rush

or said: a little less vermouth and more vodka in the next batch and toss in some blue cheese olives, this time


74 posted on 10/31/2019 10:59:06 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: lodi90; xzins

Keep in mind.....they were still living the heady days of “anything goes.”

All wrongdoing would disasappear....like magic.

Saint Obama was untouchable......Hillary was shoo-in.

What could possibly go wrong?


75 posted on 10/31/2019 10:59:07 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: qaz123
"I could be wrong, but something tells me that Ciaramella didn’t spend too much time as an 11Bravo or 0311, and he’s nothing more than a political hack that knew the right people and got his PoliSci or Government degree from the right school, which makes him smarter than most folks. Right? I’ll gladly admit I’m wrong."

That's half of it.

The first half is what you say, Democrats recruiting gullible f*cksticks out of Ivy.

The second half is the same reason the Fat Halfbird was in on the call - they can instantly translate English <-> Ukranian <-> Russian, and grok the political nuance and bend that to their favor.

76 posted on 10/31/2019 11:03:04 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (CNN's Dana B: "Show of hands: Coverage for undocumented immigrants?" ***all Democrat hands raised***)
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To: StAnDeliver

Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner

Unfortunately, there are thousands of these clowns working all over DC and they’re the same ones writing laws for morons like Pelosi & Waters and legal briefs for RBG


77 posted on 10/31/2019 11:07:24 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: StAnDeliver

Another winner.....I’d like to see the word for word translation compared to what Vindman/Ciaramella turned over to Schiff.

Could be lots of....what the President meant to say....what I think the President was saying....blah blah blah bullsh*t


78 posted on 10/31/2019 11:11:27 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: xzins

Yes, it’s mine. I could add a lot more faces, but those are the basic 3: spy, cutout, hit man.


79 posted on 10/31/2019 11:15:03 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: PeterPrinciple

I find it amazing that the Left loves to tell us of the misery that government workers have to deal with, but never say a word at say, the thousands of railroad employees from CSX that lost their jobs because of an activist hedge fund manager, destroying the company to boost stock prices and then cash out. Is MotherJones going to do a story about the folks now losing their jobs at NorfolkSouthern railroad for the same reason? Doubtful.

The writer actually says, the government workers risk losing their salaries, pensions and ‘generous health insurance’. Can she be that stupid? What about the men and women that lose their jobs every day due to outsourcing? What about all the folks at Disney, that not only lost their jobs, but had to train their replacements and sign NDAs? Those folks don’t matter. Only federal civil servants.

Who will the Leftist journalists have to hang out with and get dirt from, if all the agencies are spread out, around the country where they belong?


80 posted on 10/31/2019 11:26:18 AM PDT by qaz123
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