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'Saw everything': Alleged whistleblower Eric Ciaramella had extensive access in Trump White House
washington examiner ^ | 11/11/2019 | kerry picket

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cia; coup; democratpartspy; ericciaramella; gettrump; holdover; house; leaker; leakernumberone; leaks; mcmasteragain; obamunist; partisanhack; spy; wompwomp
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To: Travis McGee

Fox is doing Soviet Style purging of information.


61 posted on 11/12/2019 6:14:12 AM PST by CodeToad
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To: bitt

Should NEVER have had access as he was visibly a disrupter.


62 posted on 11/12/2019 6:15:23 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Cowboy Bob
Wait. Are they saying this guy was responsible for most of the leaks coming out of the White House?

Direct pipeline to Brennan - should have been prosecuted for leaking protected information, not protected as a whistleblower - sheesh.

63 posted on 11/12/2019 6:17:39 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: bitt

Why wasn’t fired? Inquiring minds would like to know.


64 posted on 11/12/2019 7:09:44 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: IndispensableDestiny

That’s it? Four years? No wonder there are so many losers in the CIA.


65 posted on 11/12/2019 7:19:12 AM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: TianaHighrider

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.


66 posted on 11/12/2019 9:03:13 AM PST by allwrong57
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To: bitt

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


67 posted on 11/12/2019 10:13:22 AM PST by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: Syncro

Grate minds love cheese.>>

Pass The Cabor Creamery Chedder!


68 posted on 11/12/2019 10:26:57 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: RitaOK

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.


69 posted on 11/12/2019 12:19:05 PM PST by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine, education and our forests)
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To: bitt

Liar, leaker, and traitor.


70 posted on 11/12/2019 6:56:26 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: KC_Conspirator

you betcha!


71 posted on 11/13/2019 7:45:58 AM PST by bitt ((Epstein didn't kill himself!))
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