Whistleblower Was Overheard in '17 Discussing With Ally How to Remove Trump

[PeteS in CA]

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/01/paul-sperry-whistleblower-overheard.php

PAUL SPERRY: WHISTLEBLOWER OVERHEARD

Behind the impeachment of President Trump’s lies the “whistleblower” whose identity the mainstream media have carefully guarded. The Democrats have classified it Sensitive Compartmented Information. This must be why the media have refused to devote its resources to this particular back story. At RealClearInvestigations, Paul Sperry has refused to abide by the blackout “rules.” He explores the back story in his deeply reported 4,000-word investigative account “Whistleblower Was Overheard in ’17 Discussing With Ally How to Remove Trump” (links omitted below). RCI authorizes the republication of its articles with attribution and we are grateful to take advantage of the opportunity here. Sperry reports:

Barely two weeks after Donald Trump took office, Eric Ciaramella – the CIA analyst whose name was recently linked in a tweet by the president and mentioned by lawmakers as the anonymous “whistleblower” who touched off Trump’s impeachment – was overheard in the White House discussing with another staffer how to remove the newly elected president from office, according to former colleagues.

Sources told RealClearInvestigations the staffer with whom Ciaramella was speaking was Sean Misko. Both were Obama administration holdovers working in the Trump White House on foreign policy and national security issues. And both expressed anger over Trump’s new “America First” foreign policy, a sea change from President Obama’s approach to international affairs.
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Misko left the White House last summer to join House impeachment manager Adam Schiff’s committee, where sources say he offered “guidance” to the whistleblower, who has been officially identified only as an intelligence officer in a complaint against Trump filed under whistleblower laws. Misko then helped run the impeachment inquiry based on that complaint as a top investigator for congressional Democrats.

Annoymorously sourced, so consider it possibly-true (and possibly false, entirely or partially) rumor-grade.

[mystery-ak]

Whistleblower Was Overheard in '17 Discussing With Ally How to Remove Trump

By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations
January 22, 2020

Barely two weeks after Donald Trump took office, Eric Ciaramella – the CIA analyst whose name was recently linked in a tweet by the president and mentioned by lawmakers as the anonymous “whistleblower" who touched off Trump's impeachment – was overheard in the White House discussing with another staffer how to remove the newly elected president from office, according to former colleagues.

Sources told RealClearInvestigations the staffer with whom Ciaramella was speaking was Sean Misko. Both were Obama administration holdovers working in the Trump White House on foreign policy and national security issues. And both expressed anger over Trump’s new “America First” foreign policy, a sea change from President Obama’s approach to international affairs.

“Just days after he was sworn in they were already talking about trying to get rid of him,” said a White House colleague who overheard their conversation.

“They weren’t just bent on subverting his agenda,” the former official added. “They were plotting to actually have him removed from office.”

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https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/01/22/whistleblower_was_overheard_in_17_discussing_with_ally_how_to_remove_trump_121701.html

[jafo2010]

This maggot should be indicted for sedition and treason.  And I want public execution brought back.

The corruption within the DOJ, FISA court and FBI with this coup effort is blatantly overt, and yet nothing in terms of indicting the traitors that would destroy this republic.  We have gotten weak minded in dealing with traitors.  I say indict, convict and dispatch every person involved in the coup against Trump.  That includes Obama if the evidence goes there.

[Hoodat]

Republicans should allow witnesses and put both of these people on the stand, then charge them with conspiracy to commit treason.