Posted on 10/31/2019 3:20:55 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
Eric Ciaramella is a CIA analyst and former National Security Council staffer who has served in both the Obama and Trump administrations as a career intelligence officer. Senator Rand Paul tweeted a link to an article by Real Clear Investigations that named Ciaramella as possibly being the whistleblower who came forward with concerns about President Donald Trump’s interactions with the president of Ukraine, leading to an official impeachment inquiry.
Ciaramella was named on social media in early October and by Real Clear Investigations on October 30, 2019, after weeks of speculation about his identity. According to the conservative-leaning Real Clear Investigations, Ciaramella’s name has been an open secret in Washington D.C. His name has since been spread by conservative pundits and websites, including the Washington Examiner and The Federalist. Senator Paul called for the whistleblower to be subpoenaed to testify under oath. Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz also shared a link to the RCI article on Twitter. ...
1. Ciaramella Is a Ukraine Expert for the CIA Whose Background Matches Details About the Whistleblower Previously Reported by The New York Times ...
2. Eric Ciaramella Grew Up in Connecticut, Studied at Yale & Harvard & Worked at the World Bank ...
3. Ciaramella Was Detailed to the National Security Council at the White House in 2015 After Joining the CIA as an Analyst Focusing on Ukraine & Russia ...
4. Ciaramella Remained at the NSC During the Earlier Months of the Trump Administration & an Email Ciaramella Sent While He Was Still Assigned to NSC Was Cited in the Mueller Report ...
5. Ciaramella Was the Target of Trump Supporters in 2017 When He Was Accused of Leaking to the Media Because of His Ties to Susan Rice & the Obama Administration ...
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He knows when to put the hammer down.
It’s illegal for the CIA to conduct a domestic operation.
Not really if you understand Trump.
Remember our POTUS was NOT a politician when he took office.
He has and always be an American first.
I'm certain that he assumed that any staff he hired would be Americans and not traitors.
It's really a shame that he *thought* most of the people he kept over from Obama felt some kind of loyalty to this Country.
It reminds me of Animal House.
"You f***ed up, you TRUSTED us."
Does anyone ever wonder why the DNC/GOP deep state thinks they can defeat Trump? Perhaps they really do believe he is a clown who just lucked into winning the presidency my leveraging his media experience. And since, in their estimation, he really is just a clueless blowhard, that means they're confident they can constantly set him up and then run parliamentary circles around him.
Now, what if we consider they are only 50% right? That, rather than some kind of 4D chess champion, Trump is at heart exactly what we're seeing as evidenced by his personnel choices and management style? A whole lot of faith is invested in Trump to pull off a victory, but so far the deep state hasn't taken a single hit. (Cue the "Be patient; who are you, the expert" chorus.)
Both JN, myself and certain others think Trump should have escalated this affair long ago. OTOH, perhaps the MIC isn't behind Trump; after all, ambitious officers don't get promoted protecting the nation's borders. Rather, careerists want overseas command positions with lots of men & materiel at their disposal.
If one were to take an objective approach, there's a lot to consider that just maybe Trump isn't the right guy. Sure, had the right message, but ultimately the wrong guy to actually execute the plan for restoring the republic. If that's the case, then whether Trump prevails, and/or wins another election, then it's all just a temporary blip before DC takes over running the country again.
“5. Ciaramella Was the Target of Trump Supporters in 2017 When He Was Accused of Leaking to the Media Because of His Ties to Susan Rice & the Obama Administration ...”
And they allowed him to be hired back with a TS clearance into the CIA? WTF is wrong with Trump...why can’t he stop this shit from happening. You leak you don’t get a clearance...that is pretty basic stuff.
If this narrative even remotely reflects the actual facts of Ciaramella's involvement in the matter, then something that immediately came to mind when I saw the Trump-Zelensky phone transcript is probably true:
What alarmed these "Deep State" people in the intelligence agencies wasn't the conversation about the Bidens, but the reference President Trump made to Crowdstrike during that phone call.
Wasn’t on my list. But the idea that he is in danger is Pure Projection. That’s how the Lefts Cancel Culture rolls.
What alarmed these “Deep State” people in the intelligence agencies wasn’t the conversation about the Bidens, but the reference President Trump made to Crowdstrike during that phone call.
Agree. And also partly why the GOP Senate controlled unintellence committee is running as fast as they can from this story.
NOT one of my soldiers or button men.
D.C.
He can't know everyone/everything. He has to take someones word for stuff once in a while. The swamp is so polluted that its almost impossible to get an honest answer. The crud has been growing for over two hundred years.
Looks like a poofter.
Has there been confirmation from any reliable conservative source that this ID is correct?
Not had all all. When he took office you tell department heads to clean
out Obama holdovers. Department heads take care of it. Not hard at all.
Give us an example of who you think is a reliable source.
Don Lemon? Anderson Cooper? Jack Tapper?
“Give us an example of who you think is a reliable source.
Don Lemon? Anderson Cooper? Jack Tapper?”
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You truly believe them to be conservative - per my criteria? Odd choices, I’d say, if so. Others may agree with you, though, given how words have lost their meaning to some.
If that's true the article will soon be updated "The late Eric Ciaramella...." Tragic plane crash (unsolved cause) during his vacation.
Now they’re saying that he won’t testify. However, the list can be pared down to one sentence....
Eric Ciaramella, is a radical leftist political hack, who is nothing more than an academic with no real experience in anything and will say YES to any senior democrat and readily get under any desk to take care of that same senior democrat, was able to get a job, he is wholly unqualified for but says all the right things and went to all the right schools, while someone with real experience and knowledge gets shut out of the job because he drives an F250, deer hunts and loves his country.
Fixed it.
I’ll politely disagree. He isn’t in that world, never has been. He knows real estate and construction, I doubt he hired many dumbasses, then. But, I do think he is/was naive to think that there were people in DC that thought like him and really wanted to put America First. Only to realize that pretty much all of them should be in prison.
In DC, he has to go with folks that are recommended and will also be able to get through confirmation processes. What’s the first thing that they say....He/She doesn’t have the experience for this or that....A leader is a leader. Doesn’t matter what industry they’re in. But in DC, with civil service laws being what they are, he’s playing the hands that he is dealt.
Who would have thought that Sessions would turn out the way he did? I sure didn’t.
If he didn’t play some of their games, he’d still be trying to put together a Cabinet.
Best thing the man could do is fire all of them(except Pompeo, for now) and get some street fighters in there, but the Swamp and Establishment would never let that happen.
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