SUPRISE SUPRISE SUPRISE!
Posted on 01/27/2020 1:39:59 AM PST by Liz
The 2020 Democratic candidate with whom the CIA whistleblower had a "professional" tie is Joe Biden, according to intelligence officers and former White House officials. Lawyers for the whistleblower said he had worked only "in the executive branch." The Washington Examiner has established that he is a career CIA analyst who was detailed to the National Security Council at the White House and has since left.
On Sept. 26, the New York Times reported that he was a CIA officer. On Oct. 4, the newspaper added that he "was detailed to the National Security Council at one point."
Michael Atkinson, the Intelligence Community's inspector general, told members of Congress that the whistleblower had a "professional tie" to a 2020 Democratic candidate. He had written earlier that while the whistleblower's complaint was credible, he had shown "some indicia of an arguable political bias ... in favor of a rival political candidate." A retired CIA officer told the Washington Examiner, “From everything we know about the whistleblower and his work in the executive branch then, there is absolutely no doubt he would have been working with Biden when he was vice president."
As an experienced CIA official on the NSC with the deep knowledge of Ukraine that he demonstrated in his complaint, it is probable that the whist leblower briefed Biden and likely that he accompanied him on Air Force Two during at least one of the six visits the 2020 candidate made to the country.
A former Trump administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters, said Biden’s work on foreign affairs brought him into close proximity with the whistleblower either at the CIA or when he was detailed to the White House.
“This person, after working with Biden, may feel defensive towards him because he feels [Biden] is being falsely attacked. Maybe he is even talking to Biden’s staff,” the former official said. “Maybe it is innocent, maybe not.”
Last month, the whistleblower accused President Trump of abusing his position by asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Biden and his son, Hunter, who sat on the board of a Ukrainian gas company. His complaint is now at the center of a Democrat-led impeachment inquiry, prompting Trump and his allies to cry foul. Biden was President Barack Obama’s "point man" on Ukraine, making a half dozen trips there in his eight years as vice president. Those trips involved briefings from senior intelligence officials and NSC officers, some of whom traveled with him to Kyiv and elsewhere.
“The Whistleblower has ties to one of my DEMOCRAT OPPONENTS,” tweeted Trump, after the "professional" link was revealed by the Washington Examiner. “Why does the ICIG allow this scam to continue?” Trump said Thursday he did not know the identity of the whistleblower.
The connection to Biden has emerged a week after Atkinson, the Intelligence Community's inspector general, briefed the House Intelligence Committee on the whistleblower’s complaint.
After the report on what Atkinson said, lawyers for the whistleblower immediately insisted their client was not motivated by political considerations, but their cryptic comment fueled speculation about his identity. The careful statement did not rule out that the whistleblower worked with one of the candidates before they started running for president.
"First, our client has never worked for or advised a political candidate, campaign, or party," said Andrew Bakaj and Mark Zaid. "Second, our client has spent their entire government career in apolitical, civil servant positions in the Executive Branch." Glenn Carle, a former CIA officer who himself blew the whistle on George W. Bush administration efforts to collect intelligence on an American citizen, said the distinction was crucial.
“The truth is that the whistleblower would have worked with Biden not in some partisan political sense but as a member of the government,” he said. “It is scurrilous to suppose there was a political motivation.” He added that it was possible that the CIA officer briefed senators or representatives who were now running for president.
SUPRISE SUPRISE SUPRISE!
The name that must not be spoken...ERIC CIARAMELLA!!! ERIC CIARAMELLA!!! ERIC CIARAMELLA!!!!
I’ll never say ERIC CIARAMELLA!!! ERIC CIARAMELLA!!! ERIC CIARAMELLA!!!! ever again.
NEVER SAY ERIC CIARAMELLA, Liz....NEVER!
Wary inkterestink
As Cindy McCain would say, Everybody Knows.
It just gets worse and worse for these imbeciles.
They don’t have the sense not to fire up the entire box of exploding cigars all at once.
Is it possible that Eric, may we call him Eric being old friends and all, was the “insurance Policy” spoken of by Sterzick and the slut.
Is Bloomberg paying him for his silence? Cuz he could make some big bucks writing a book.
Yeah, right.
Sure thing, Mr. Carle.
“The truth is that the whistleblower would have worked with Biden not in some partisan political sense but as a member of the government,” he said. “It is scurrilous to suppose there was a political motivation.”
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Starting a sentence “The truth is...” is a tell that what follows is a lie.
Come on Liz, we do not know who the WB is...../s
Pull that pin, baby.....pull it.
If the motivation isn’t political, then can we assume that Ciaramella is himself implicated in Biden’s Ukraine dealings?
Like most of the State Department geeks who testified against Trump before the House? They were involved in disbursing the moneys, they were in the meetings where they discussed how to shut down the investigations. And how to stop Trump. They are all implicated, and that would include Ciaramella.
Nice breakdown. They were so brazen....and sloppy.....b/c Hillary was a shoo-in. Nobody would ever find out. (smirk)
Golly.......I keep forgetting we “dont know”.....(smirk).
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