Top GOP representative: Time to identify the whistleblower
by Susan Ferrechio
| October 15, 2019 12:36 PM
Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, the top Republican on the House Oversight Committee, said Tuesday the anonymous whistleblower who filed a complaint about President Trump’s behavior on a phone call with the president of Ukraine should be identified.
“The question I keep coming back to is why we don’t know who this individual is,†Jordan said as he walked into another day of closed-door testimony from another Trump administration witness in an impeachment investigation led by Democrats.
Jordan said the 1989 Whistleblower Protection Act affords protections to the whistleblower but not anonymity.
“He has a right to protection, that is what the whistleblower statute says,†Jordan told reporters. “It does not say anonymity.â€
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