The individual who filed a whistleblower complaint with the intelligence community’s inspector general last month is a CIA officer who was at one point detailed to the White House, The New York Times reported Thursday citing three unnamed people familiar with his identity.
Much like the FBI the CIA has always been a haven for lefties…
“Any decision to report any perceived identifying information of the whistle-blower is deeply concerning and reckless, as it can place the individual in harm’s way. The whistle-blower has a right to anonymity.””
Yes
One could make the argument the American people have a right to know the identity of the whistleblower eventually. I think it’s very hard to make the argument that we have a right (or a need) to know that identity today.
Exactly.
Don’t need it today.
How many decades lapsed, before we knew the identity of ‘Deep Throat’ in the Nixon years?
ETA: Just checked, it was 31 years after Nixon resigned that we found out Mark Felt, former FBI Associate director was “Deep Throat”.
This.
But, then again, that’s likely the goal of some who wish to out him or her.
Aiding and abetting that goal – intentionally or otherwise – is not responsible journalism.
I’ll wait to buy his (or her) book. Before that I don’t need to know.
Agreed. This is enough information for Trump’s people to work with, but not enough for outsiders to identify the whistleblower. Retribution is guaranteed - this was a reckless action by the NYT.
As soon as the identity is known, the news-hogging character assassination begins. Let’s hope that’s a ways off.
If he is operating in his capacity, has done the correct process and continues to stay on mission, do they?
This is not a person sourced by a reporter and delivered the information outside of process.
Dean, Sulzie. This is eminently sucky. Hope it’s worth the clicks.
I’m not making that argument, I’m just saying that it could be made. I’m not actually sure which side I’d take.
In the Trump Era, never assume assassination will be limited to “character”.
#GabbyGiffords
Likely they are looking to entangle this into making the story about the whistle blower.
“I’ll help you, President [Scumbag]!” - the NY Times.
Just a reminder that the whistle blower letter does not exist.
This kind of guessing game is dangerous and will make more whistleblowers afraid to come forward.
Right about now Trump must suspect and distrust every damned person in his orbit or employ.
He was no different from any other officer in the ward room, they were all disloyal. I tried to run the ship properly, by the book, but they fought me at every turn. The crew wanted to walk around with their shirt tails hanging out, that’s all right, let them. Take the tow line, defective equipment, no more, no less. But they encouraged the crew to go around scoffing at me, and spreading wild rumors about steaming in circles, and then old yellow-strain. I was to blame for Lt. Maryk’s incompetence and poor seamanship. Lt. Maryk was the perfect officer, but not Captain Queeg. Ah, but the strawberries, that’s, that’s where I had them,…
Trump during the hearing today: “I want to know who’s the person, who’s the person who gave the whistleblower the information? Because that’s close to a spy,” Trump said at the closed-door event. “You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart? Right? The spies and treason, we used to handle it a little differently than we do now.”
Trump came right out and said that he wanted the whistleblower exposed and punished, maybe executed or assassinated Putin-style, as a “spy.” Not that this is any surprise. In what world is it even remotely ethical to reveal ANYTHING that makes it easier to identify them as this NYT description does? Add to that Maguire’s repeated referral to the whistleblower as “he” and you’ve painted quite a target, and not only on the actual WB and family but even other people who somewhat match the description. We need to light up the editors’ desks and phones at the NYT for this. It’s beyond irresponsibility.
Also: who leaked this very secret info to the NYT and why did they do it? THEY should be exposed and held accountable. I wonder if they also tried to leak it to a more reputable venue like the Washington Post, or if they just went with a venue they already knew was sleazy enough to print it.
Edited to add: the decision to release the identifying information on the whistleblower was made by the NYT executive editor Dean Baquet, who defended the release of the information by saying that the whistleblower’s identity is “essential to understanding … whether the president of the United States abused power and whether the White House covered it up.” What a self-satisfied, ethics-free fool. He released the secret identifying information in defiance of whistleblower protection law and the advice of the NYT’s own attorneys:
The MSM will now help protect Trump by getting people killed. Cute.
“three unnamed people familiar with his identity.”
In other words, people who have read the full WB Complaint, know who the WB is, should never have known who the WB is and are working in concert with Trump, Barr, Engel, and the GOP to generate maximum threat of retaliation in the form of career destruction and death of himself and/or family.
And the NYT thinks it’s perfectly fine to help them edge towards outing the person so that this ploy works.