Posted on 12/28/2019 6:48:26 PM PST by mdittmar
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump retweeted, then deleted, a post that included the alleged name of the anonymous whistleblower whose complaint ultimately led to Trump’s impeachment by the House.
Just before midnight Friday, Trump retweeted a message from Twitter user @Surfermom77, an account that claims to be a woman named Sophia who lives in California. The account shows some indications of automation, including an unusually high amount of activity and profile pictures featuring stock images from the internet.
By Saturday morning, the post had been removed from Trump’s feed, though it could still be found in other ways, including on a website that logs every presidential tweet.
While Trump has repeatedly backed efforts to unmask the whistleblower, his retweet marks the first time he has directly sent the alleged name into the Twitter feed of his 68 million followers.
Unmasking the whistleblower, who works in the intelligence field, could violate federal protection laws that have historically been supported by both parties.
The whistleblower filed a complaint in August about one of Trump’s telephone conversations with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and other dealings with the Eastern European nation. The complaint prompted House Democrats to launch a probe that ended with Trump’s impeachment earlier this month. The matter now heads to the Senate, where the Republican majority is expected to acquit the president.
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There is no law that protects the identity of a whistle blower. NONE
And they’re brass......
LOL
I don’t think it’s Ciamarella, or if it is, he’s a “representative” of a larger group of people, any one of whom could stand in for him if circumstances were right.
John Bolton is the main problem.
I feel so much better.
Dems in media act like whistleblower protection is as sacred as protecting an original handwritten Declaration of Independence.
But you’re right. “Where is it written” as Talmud scholars ask.
And the whole ap story just changed,what fun this is;)
They didn't.
An entire article about President Trump’s tweet without actually stating the contents of the tweet.
I stopped reading after this lie;
“Unmasking the whistleblower, who works in the intelligence field, could violate federal protection laws that have historically been supported by both parties.”
The only person not allowed to “unmask” the fake whistleblower is the ICIG.
Actually, they did.
The Inspector General for Intelligence, Atkinson, changed the whistleblower form and criteria to allow a complaint to be based on hearsay.
Old man: Ciaramella, Ciaramella, Ciaramella!!!
{Lady with beard throws stone.}
Temple Official: Right. NOBODY throws a stone until I whistle blow. Even if I myself say Ciaramella!
Note the “whistleblower law” was changed right before EC blew the whistle.
Changing that law could be construed as “bill of attainder” - enacted precisely for the purpose of harming one person in particular. I’d like to see a legal analysis of the timeline of that change vs the timeline of “the call” and subsequent “whistleblowing”.
That's exactly what they will do. They will claim that Trump broke the law by revealing his name. Even if it's more of a technicality (his name is widely known), it will be similar to "Scooter" Libby revealing the name of Valerie Plame even though it had already been revealed. The Dems will claim (at last!) that they (finally!) will have something they can convict him of.
My name is ERIC CIARAMELLA and I am a total douche. Who is afraid of a douche?
i have yet to see where the wb has the right to remain anonymous..legal eagles/ msm?
just look for the geek being driven to his work as he is a pussy snowflake who can make false anonymous accusations against our president, then run from them and hide
There is no law for anonymity for whistleblowers.
Also as the whistle blew out falsehoods not facts, he who blows is not a whistleblower, but a false witness guilty of perjury and slander and Is NOT protected from prosecution.
Just like all Demo ratic Party talking points its poll tested 100% Bovine excretement.
I’ve read that it was changed to allow second hand information. Is that incorrect?
The whistle blower used the old form, and even if he hadn't he claimed to have first hand knowledge of some of the allegations.
The changed form story is a red herring.
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