[rad-green] When Is a Whistleblower Not a Whistleblower? (A very different take on Ukraine, RussiaGate, the CIA and the Democrats)

*https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/11/05/when-whistleblower-not-whistleblower
<https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/11/05/when-whistleblower-not-whistleblower>Common
Dreams          November 5, 2019When Is a Whistleblower Not a
Whistleblower?When was the last time a real whistleblower was 'protected'
by the government from public exposure?by Renee Parsons*

[image: The alleged WB is said to be a 33 year old CIA analyst by the name
of Eric Ciaramella who was an Obama White House holdover at the National
Security Council until mid 2017. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)]

*The alleged WB is said to be a 33 year old CIA analyst by the name of Eric
Ciaramella who was an Obama White House holdover at the National Security
Council until mid 2017. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)*

For those readers who care more about Donald Trump, Obama’s legacy or the
Republican/Democrat parties rather than the Rule of Law and what remains of
the US Constitution, the following scenario should be a Giant Wake up
Call.

As the result of an anonymous “whistleblower” Complaint
<https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/20190812_-_whistleblower_complaint_unclass.pdf>
filed
against President Trump on August 12, the House Intel Committee conducted a
series of closed door hearings that violated Sixth Amendment
<https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/sixth_amendment> protections
while relying on an anonymous WB. Right away, those hearings morphed into
an impeachment inquiry that took on the spectacle of a clumsy kerfuffle not
to be taken seriously—except they were.

There is an essential Ukraine backstory which began with the US initiating
the overthrow of its democratically elected President Yanukovych in 2014.
Fast forward to Russiagate followed by Ukrainegate and an impeachment
inquiry with Trump telling newly elected Ukraine President Zelensky in
their now infamous July 25th conversation:

"I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation in
Ukraine; they say Crowdstrike.  The server they say, Ukraine has it."

In a nutshell, possession of the CrowdStrike server is crucial to revealing
the Democratic hierarchy’s role in initiating Russiagate as the Democrats
are having a major snit-fit that now threatens the constitutional
foundation of the country.

On October 31st the House voted to initiate a formal impeachment inquiry
based on still mysterious Whistleblower’s allegations. At the time, there
was still no confirmation of who the shadowy Whistleblower was or whether a
Whistleblower even existed.

It is a fact that most whistleblowers bring the transgression proudly
forward
<https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/10/09/fmr_cia_whistleblower_ukraine_call_whistleblower_is_really_an_anonymous_source_for_democrats.html>
into
the public light for the specific purpose of exposing the deeds that
deserve to be exposed.  At great personal cost, they then provide a
credible case for why this offense is illegal or a violation of the public
trust and deserves to be made public. This alleged WB, however, defies the
traditional definition of a WB who most often experiences the wrong-doing
first hand and from a personal vantage while revealing said wrong-doing as
a function within an agency of their employment.

This WB’s identity has been protected from public disclosure by TPTB,
shrouded in mystery and suspicion as if fearful of public scrutiny or that
his ‘truth’ would crumble under interrogation and not be greeted with
unanimity.  What is clear is that this WB had no direct experience but only
second-hand knowledge of events which is defined as ‘hear say’ evidence.
While inadmissible in a Court of law, why should ‘hear say’ be allowed when
the subject is as profound as impeachment of a President?

Real-life CIA whistleblower Jon Kiriakou
<https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/10/09/fmr_cia_whistleblower_ukraine_call_whistleblower_is_really_an_anonymous_source_for_democrats.html>
who
served 22 months in prison, suggested this “whistleblower is not a
whistleblower but a anonymous CIA analyst within the Democratic House
staff.”  When was the last time a real whistleblower was ‘protected’ by the
government from public exposure.

There has been no explanation as to why this informant’s identity is
necessarily been kept secret—and not just from the public but from Members
of Congress especially as Republican Members have been unable to question
him. There has been no further information regarding a second
"Whistleblower" who allegedly came forward to corroborate the first WB
although why it is necessary to corroborate that which has already been
publicly revealed remains questionable.

In a once unimaginable example of CIA—Democratic collusion,  it turns out
that the identity of the alleged WB is not such a secret after all.  Far
from the public eyes of Americans, there has been a coordinated effort to
stifle any exposure of his identity; presumably to prevent any revelation
of the underpinnings of exactly how this convoluted scheme of malfeasance
was organized.  And as his name and political history within the Obama
Administration and Democratic party are publicly scrutinized, it makes
perfect sense why the TPTB would prefer to prevent public hearings or keep
the WB’s identity under wraps.

His identity should have been public knowledge weeks ago and yet it took Real
Clear Investigations
<https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/10/30/whistleblower_exposed_close_to_biden_brennan_dnc_oppo_researcher_120996.html>,
an alt-news website to publicly reveal what has been well known within the
DC bubble for some weeks.  The answer to the title question is that this WB
is instead a very well connected partisan lackey and CIA operative.

The alleged WB is said to be a 33 year old CIA analyst
<https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/10/30/whistleblower_exposed_close_to_biden_brennan_dnc_oppo_researcher_120996.html>
by
the name of Eric Ciaramella who was an Obama White House holdover at the
National Security Council until mid 2017. Consequently, he has deep
partisan ties to former VP Joe Biden, former CIA Director John Brennan and
former National Security Advisor Susan Rice as well as the DNC
establishment.  And here’s where it get especially interesting; Ciaramella
specializes in Russia and Ukraine, is fluent in both languages, ran the
Ukraine desk at the Obama NSC and had close association with  Ukrainian DNC
hyper-activist Alexandra Chalupa.

Ciaramella’s bio reads like a litany of the political turmoil that has
consumed the nation for the last three years as it is reported that he had
a role in initiating the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy while at the
Obama White House and worked with Biden who was the Obama point-person on
Ukraine issues in 2015 and 2016 when $3 billion USAID funding
<http://www.unz.com/ishamir/the-plundering-of-ukraine/> was being
embezzled. Clearly, Ciaramella has a wealth of information to share
regarding the Biden Quid pro Quo scandal
<https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/09/27/flashback_2018_joe_biden_brags_at_cfr_meeting_about_withholding_aid_to_ukraine_to_force_firing_of_prosecutor.html#!>
which
is currently being muzzled by the corporate media.

With Ciaramella’s identity revealed,  a former NSC staffer who was present
during the Trump-Zelensky July 25th conversation testified that he saw nothing
illegal
<https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nsc-official-morrison-schiff-nothing-illegal-trump-zelensky-call>
in
the talk. Tim Morrison told the House Intel Committee that "I want to be
clear, I was not concerned that anything illegal was discussed" and that
the transcript of the call which was declassified and released by the White
House  “accurately and completely reflects the substance of the call."  As
a result, Ciaramella is now refusing to publicly testify
<https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-ukraine-whistleblower-suddenly-wont-testify-lawyers-break-negotiations-house-amid>
before
the House or Senate Intel Committees.

More recently, Mark Zaid, attorney for Ciaramella has said that his client
would accept written questions from Republicans on the House Intel
Committee and that his client “wants to be as bipartisan
<https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/sunday-narrative-ambush-republicans-say-whistleblowers-offer-to-answer-gop-questions-isnt-sincere>
as
possible throughout this process while remaining anonymous.” Seriously?
He’s got to be kidding.

Did the reality of being required to testify in public just recently dawn
on Ciaramella or was he not expecting that his every word and utterance
would be scrutinized before the entire world?  Is he so unfamiliar with the
Sixth Amendment that he believes a Defendant’s right to confront his
accuser should not apply to him or in a Presidential impeachment inquiry?
Did he actually believe he could make anonymous impeachment accusations
against the President of the US without a ripple or without having to
directly face questions from House and Senate Republicans?  Who did he
think would protect him from public scrutiny?

Given Ciaramella’s extensive partisan history since 2015 and his national
security experience with Susan Rice in the Obama White House, it will be
interesting if he receives a mention in the IG report on the abuse of FISA
warrants and whether Ciaramella’s name has moved to the top of the Durham
interviewee list.

Renee Parsons <https://www.commondreams.org/author/renee-parsons> has been
a member of the ACLU’s Florida State Board of Directors and president of
the ACLU Treasure Coast Chapter. She has been an elected public official in
Colorado, an environmental lobbyist with Friends of the Earth and staff
member of the US House of Representatives in Washington D.C.

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