Posted on 11/11/2019 10:18:17 PM PST by bitt
Eric Ciaramella, the alleged Ukraine whistleblower, was long suspected of deliberately attempting to damage President Trump's foreign policy from the inside and had access to policy information far beyond his regional expertise, according to former National Security Council officials.
Ciaramella, 33, a career CIA analyst, was Ukraine director on the NSC toward the end of the Obama administration and stayed there during the first few months of the Trump administration, when he was acting senior director for European and Russian affairs and then special assistant to Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, who was Trump's national security adviser, until he left the White House in summer 2017.
Now a deputy national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia on the National Intelligence Council, Ciaramella is suspected of being the official who filed a complaint about a July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Democrats are pursuing the impeachment of Trump, accusing him of linking Ukrainian military aid to investigating corruption related to business dealings by former vice president Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden.
“The person that I always felt extremely uncomfortable around was Eric Ciaramella. He was one of the few guys around who seemed to know where the filing cabinets were, so to speak,” one former official told the Washington Examiner, adding that Ciaramella was antagonistic at an early Trump administration gathering when it was said that the goal was to turn Trump’s campaign promises and platform into policy.
When the issue of Ukraine was brought up at a policy meeting, Ciaramella mentioned aid to Ukraine. He became visibly upset, the official recounted, when he was told that Trump would review Ukraine policy and that it would likely not be the same as President Barack Obama’s.
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Fox is doing Soviet Style purging of information.
Should NEVER have had access as he was visibly a disrupter.
Direct pipeline to Brennan - should have been prosecuted for leaking protected information, not protected as a whistleblower - sheesh.
Why wasn’t fired? Inquiring minds would like to know.
That’s it? Four years? No wonder there are so many losers in the CIA.
When the issue of Ukraine was brought up at a policy meeting, Ciaramella mentioned aid to Ukraine. He became visibly upset, the official recounted, when he was told that Trump would review Ukraine policy and that it would likely not be the same as President Barack Obama’s.
It looks to me like someone was getting a kickback! You don’t get ‘visibly upset’ over a foreign country not getting our money, IMO. There’s more to it than that, probably Biden, and all involved had a percentage coming back home for their efforts.
Unless this jerk tapped Trumps phone he didnt know what was said in that conversation with the President of Ukraine. Everything he knows is heresay
Grate minds love cheese.>>
Pass The Cabor Creamery Chedder!
I wonder...did General Flynn identify this scoundrel in his few weeks as NSC head? Once he’s released from his verbal handcuffs, we’ll know.
Liar, leaker, and traitor.
you betcha!
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