Meet Eric Ciaramella, a career CIA analyst and the Ukraine director on the National Security Council from 2016 until the summer of 2017. Mr Ciaramella is a registered Democrat. He previously worked for then-NSC adviser Susan Rice, as well as Old Joe Biden when the former Veep was the Prez's point-man for Ukraine. In October 2016, he was Mr Biden's guest at a State Department banquet.So what? Well, Mr Ciaramella has now been named by the New York Post as the whistleblower at the heart of the Trump impeachment saga! Here's what the Post said.
Whistleblower lawyers refuse to confirm or deny Ciaramella is their man. His identity is apparently the worst-kept secret of the Washington press corps. In a sign of how farcical this has become, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said his name as part of a series of names during a live hearing Wednesday night aired on television. He never called him the whistleblower, just said he was someone Republicans thought should testify, yet Democrats angrily denounced the "outing". If you don't know the man's name, how do you know the man's name?
The Post goes on to pose some questions that Mr Ciaramella, if he is the whistleblower, should be asked to answer, viz: What, if anything, did he leak? Did he work with Biden on Ukraine, apparently Ciaramella’s area of expertise? Did he know about Burisma and Hunter Biden? Who told him about the call, and why did that person not complain instead of him? How did Schiff’s staff help him tailor the complaint?
And the Post concludes: This is only the fourth time in our history that a president has faced impeachment. Shouldn't we know the answers to these questions now, and not in two or three years when the inevitable official reports and tell-all books come out? Why must we wait for the truth?
UPDATE ADDED 30/12/19: FURTHER READING: "The real reason Eric Ciaramella is being protected so fervently", by J.D. Rucker in NOQ Report, 29/12/19.
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