The intelligence community whistleblower, identified as a CIA officer, initially took his allegations to the agency’s general counsel, only deciding to lodge his now-famous complaint when he realized that the general counsel had alerted the White House.
Corruption invites corruption, inaction brings inaction. It’s contagious.
Do we really need any more proof that the entire GOP is now corrupted and must be crushed?
Sooooo turns out the CIA counsel was mote like a CYA counsel
The number of Trump administration officials who acted illegally or unethically may number in the hundreds, just in this one case.
It’s exceedingly important to get more than one iconic whistleblower to stand up. It’s clear that we’re looking at a systemic ethical and legal collapse in the White House (including the Situation Room staff), the DOJ, the State Department, and the intelligence and law enforcement agencies. Scores of people were involved in this thing, and only one person has stood up so far. That’s bad in itself, but it’s also bad in the sense that the case can be made to appear to hinge on one particular person’s view of things. We need a bunch of people to resign and/or come forward. Democrats should consider exerting pressure of their own, either by offering inducements or by stating the obvious: that once they are in power, they will fully investigate the actions taken by DOJ and intelligence staff. Anyone found to have participated or knowingly enabled the criminal actions of the president or the attorney-general will meet with an appropriate fate, including criminal investigation and loss of licenses to practice law.
The witness list keeps growing. She’d better retain counsel.
I’m getting this very sinking feeling that regardless who the next Democratic president will be, he or she will be seen as an enemy within certain areas of government.
Are we to understand that the rank and file don’t trust toadies for the administration? That the blatant politicization of various agencies actually caused the firestorm that we are now witnessing?
The CIA officer is a true patriot.
The whistleblower went to the CIA counsel almost immediately. So, around 7-25-26-27. And that counsel probably snitched to the WH soon after. It would be interesting to review Trump’s tweets and other communications, speeches, etc taking into account the possibility this has been weighing on his mind starting almost the moment he hung up with Zelensky.
Seems Trump created the Swamp, not drain it.
And he’s adding alligators.
Unless that Dem has strong majorities in both houses of Congress it’ll be four years of grueling, contentious, litigious inertia. And God forbid the Senate is 50-50, with someone like Joe Manchin the kingmaker, holding his vote hostage to a pseudo-centrist yet right leaning bullshit agenda the knuckleheads in West Virginia want.
So, back to the Obama years then? Cause those same areas of government viewed Obama as the enemy (DoD, DHS, ICE, CBP).
I feel badly for the whistleblower as more and more information comes out about this person. There are probably 100’s of people that know who it is and it won’t be long before it revealed. Somebody trying to do the right thing for us and now they are going to be in danger.
Just like women that have been raped and people wonder why they never come forward.
Yeah, but I felt like they did their jobs. This article suggests that things have become so politicized that doing your required duty will take supreme effort and may even jeopardize your career.
It’s like the United States has turned into Game of Thrones.
They never come forward because Trump paid them off and made them sign an NDA.
Seems to me that anyone appointed by trump needs to be removed from federal employment asap.
It would be interesting to see the timeline between the time that the WB went to the CIA counsel and the time that the records were placed in the secure server.