It is imperative the whistleblower is subpoenaed and asked under oath about Hunter Biden and corruption. Disclosure of the name of any person who may be suspected to be the whistleblower places that individual and their family in great physical danger. Gohmert Questions Ukraine's Former Minister of Finance in House Natural Resources Committee. “When these cranks start spreading this around, it gains credence because so many people share it,” Rothschild said. He was pressing Natalie Jaresko, Ukraine’s former finance minister and now executive director of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, to discuss conspiracy theories about Ukraine’s involvement in the 2016 presidential election. Ciaramella was named on social media in early October and by Real Clear Investigations on October 30, after weeks of speculation about his identity. “These whistleblowers took great personal risks, not for politics or personal gain, but to defend our democracy. Tweets on Wednesday by Donald Trump Jr. capped more than a month of efforts by President Trump’s allies to surface the supposed name of a whistleblower whose complaint about a July 25 phone call led to the House’s impeachment inquiry. Ciaramella also deleted his Facebook profile page and does not appear to have any other social media. We also withhold identities or other facts when we believe that publication would put an individual at risk. The whistleblower raised concerns that Trump had asked Zelensky during a July 2019 phone call to investigate former Vice President and current Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, and his son, Hunter Biden. Grace and Misko are now aides to Rep. Schiff. Ciaramella worked on Eastern European issues along with another Obama administration holdover, Fiona Hill. His initial reference drew some immediate attention. He was tasked to the National Security Council on Ukraine,” Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert told the Washington Examiner. We’re working with the whistleblower and launched a crowdfunding effort to support the whistleblower’s lawyers,” the GoFundMe states. He has been identified by multiple conservative news outlets and Republican politicians as the possible whistleblower whose complaint about President Donald Trump’s call with the president of Ukraine led to Trump’s impeachment. But the supposed name of the whistleblower has been circulating in conservative corners of social media since at least Oct. 3, culminating in Trump Jr.’s Wednesday morning retweet of a Breitbart News article that named an individual. Most (people) are.” Another attorney for the whistleblower, Andrew Bakaj, told CNN that the whistleblower had “contact with presidential candidates from both parties in their roles as elected officials — not as candidates,” and said the whistleblower “has never worked for or advised a political candidate, campaign or party. Donald Trump Jr. named CIA officer Eric Ciaramella as the whistleblower who filed a complaint about President Trump's phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Congress knows. D’Annunzio said he first came across the name of the supposed whistleblower in a Gateway Pundit article. During the Trump impeachment hearings, Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert, of Texas, mentioned Ciaramella’s name, without context or while saying he was the possible whistleblower, while listing several names that some Republicans believe to be part of a Democratic conspiracy against Trump. Eric Ciaramella joined the Central Intelligence Agency at some point during President Obama’s second term. According to the Washington Examiner, Ciaramella is currently detailed by the CIA to the National Intelligence Committee, where he works as a deputy national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia. The agent had been seconded to the White House for duty, but has returned to his regular desk duty, according to three sources, The New York Times reported Thursday. An attorney in Texas also promoted a post revealing the name of the supposed whistleblower and calling him an “illegal SPY.”. Another ad, placed by a group called Arab American Conservative, gained as many as 6,000 views, mostly from users older than 50 in a handful of politically potent states, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Florida. The whistleblower who accused President Donald Trump of seeking political favors from Ukraine is reportedly a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative. The individuals below brought attention to abuses of government or large corporations. Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert told a local radio station in his home state of Texas that many in Washington D.C. knew the whistleblower’s identity, calling him a “staunch Democrat,” and former “point person on Ukraine,” who never called out corruption in the Eastern European country. They’re hiding him because of his political bias.”, Democrats have sought to keep the name concealed and have criticized efforts by Republicans to name the whistleblower. Numerous people & news outlets including Real Clear Politics already ID’d him.”, Ciaramella could not be reached for comment by Heavy. The Times article, published on Sept. 26, carried the headline, “Whistle-Blower Is a C.I.A. McMaster was named Trump’s new national security adviser, Ciaramella served as McMaster’s personal aide. This, frankly, is at the pinnacle of irresponsibility and is intentionally reckless.”. “Let me be clear: should any harm befall any suspected named whistleblower or their family, the blame will rest squarely with your client,” said the letter, addressed to Pat Cipollone, counsel to the president, and copied to congressional leaders. A former Trump official told the Examiner, “It is close to a mathematical certainty that (Vindman and the whistleblower) know one another and that (the whistleblower) is being used to provide analytical support to the National Security Council on the topics of Russia and Ukraine. The Web-enabled effort to identify the whistleblower illustrates the ability of Trump and his allies to use an army of conservative commentators and social media provocateurs to spread the president’s version of events and combat his critics. The letter was first published by CNN and confirmed by The Post. The lead Republican attorney in the Trump impeachment inquiry inserted the name of the alleged CIA whistleblower during a line of questioning with Bill Taylor, the acting ambassador to Ukraine … Even the president knows who he is. Career staffers who had joined the U.S. government many years, sometimes decades, earlier were suddenly cast as Obama loyalists determined to derail Trump’s agenda as part of a “deep state.” The people targeted included a State Department civil servant of Iranian descent who’d joined the government under the George W. Bush administration; a highly respected Foreign Service officer who dealt with Israeli issues; and an NSC staffer who dealt with European and Russian issues. The Times wrote, “His complaint suggested he was an analyst by training and made clear he was steeped in details of American foreign policy toward Europe, demonstrating a sophisticated understanding of Ukrainian politics and at least some knowledge of the law.”. The complaint revealed that the whistleblower was not on the call, but learned of concerning information from others with direct knowledge about it. Attorney Steve Castor, a lawyer for Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee asked Taylor about the whistleblower complaint. “And then it started to pop up in other places, where it’s obvious he’s the guy,” he said. Several mainstream media outlets are in full attack-mode against President Trump for Tweets he made over the weekend that name CIA analyst Eric Ciaramella as the whistleblower in the Ukraine scandal. Here’s what you need to know about Eric Ciaramella: It is being reported that the whistleblower was Joe Biden’s point man on Ukraine. Cernovich wrote, “Nothing in his résumé indicates that Ciaramella will put America First. I did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen, and I was worried about the implications for the U.S. government’s support of Ukraine,” he testified. It will not relieve the president of the need to address the substantive allegations, all of which have been substantially proven to be true.”. Foreign Policy wrote in 2017, “The piece described Eric Ciaramella as ‘pro-Ukraine and anti-Russia’ and alleged, with no evidence, that he was possibly responsible for high-level leaks. “Are they going to pretend that his name hasn’t been in the public domain for weeks now?” Trump Jr. tweeted. According to The Times, the whistleblower is a CIA officer who was detailed to work at the White House before returning to the CIA. “Any mention of the potential whistleblower’s name violates our coordinating harm policy, which prohibits content ‘outing of witness, informant or activist,'" the spokesman, Andy Stone, said. The article, by the conservative author Paul Sperry, whose books include “Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington,” made a detailed argument that the individual was the whistleblower. He was named by the far-right as a supposed member of the “deep state” in 2017 and was the subject of baseless accusations accusing him of leaking information to the media, simply because of his ties to former members of the Obama administration, including ex-National Security Adviser Susan Rice, who has often been accused of trying to undermine Trump. thought he did a good job. He likely works closely with Alexander Vindman, the impeachment inquiry witness who is now Ukraine director for the NSC, Ciaramella’s former role. One of D’Annunzio’s ads, viewed as many as 150,000 times, provided the supposed whistleblower’s full name and links to the RealClearInvestigations article. A conservative Republican in Congress raised the name of the CIA officer accused of being the Ukraine whistleblower during a congressional hearing about Puerto Rico last month. Close. He inquired about her previous position as Ukraine's Minister of Finance from December 2014 until April 2016 and how she acquired her new position.2019-10-22T17:10:01.000Z, Gohmert was questioning Natalie Jaresko, who is the executive director of a fiscal board that oversees Puerto Rico’s debt, during a House Natural Resources Committee hearing. Eric Ciaramella grew up in Prospect, Connecticut, as one of three children. Are they going to pretend that his name hasn’t been in the public domain for weeks now? They’re ruining the life of a public servant who may not be the right guy. Alleged ‘Whistleblower’ Eric Ciaramella Worked Closely with Anti-Trump Dossier Hoaxer.” The tweet led to anger and the president’s son responded, “The entire media is #Triggered that I (a private citizen) tweeted out a story naming the alleged whistleblower. The NSC staff was at a barebones level at the time after the resignation of Lt. General Michael Flynn, who had been Trump’s first National Security Adviser. That move delighted Trump’s supporters, but it was his elder son’s decision to more clearly include the name in his own tweet — and to double down on the decision in subsequent posts — that gave the online crusade a sense of victory. After high school, Ciaramella attended Yale University, graduating in 2008 as a Russian and East European studies major. Gohmert mentioned Ciaramella’s name, out of the blue, during an open House hearing on unrelated issues on October 22. An email sent by Ciaramella while he was still assigned to the NSC was cited as a footnote in Robert Mueller’s report on the Trump investigation. On December 27 and December 28, Trump retweeted tweets that included Ciaramella’s name and links to articles that included his name. He declined to say whether Sperry had seized on the name because of his back-and-forth with Posobiec on Oct. 3, saying Sperry had credible sources and also relied on reporting from other outlets, including the Times, which “wrote a long piece going into detail about him about a month ago, saying he was a CIA analyst, blah blah blah,” Kuntz said. As speculation about whether Eric Ciaramella is the whistleblower spreads online and in conservative media and circles, elected Republican officials are calling for his identity to be revealed. The company has allowed the name and supposed photos of the CIA officer accused of filing the whistleblower complaint about Trump's dealings with Ukraine's president to remain on its platform. The latter, Eric Ciaramella, reportedly left the NSC after receiving death threats. An attorney for the whistleblower, who declined to name his client, said Facebook and others have an ethical responsibility to protect “those who lawfully expose suspected government wrongdoing.”, “This is particularly significant in this case where I have made it clear time and time again that reporting any suspected name for the whistleblower will place that individual and their family at risk of serious harm,” said the attorney, Andrew P. Bakaj. Ciaramella is also listed as a guest at a 2016 luncheon to honor the prime minister of Italy, along with Biden. Powered by. Such behavior is at the pinnacle of irresponsibility and is intentionally reckless.”, Zaid and Bakaj issued an additional statement after Trump Jr.’s tweet, saying, “We will note, however, that publication or promotion of a name shows the desperation to deflect from the substance of the whistleblower complaint. The person named in Trump Jr.'s tweets — as well as in the articles he amplified — did not respond to a request for comment. As Trump and his allies intensified their calls for the whistleblower to be identified, some groups on Facebook assumed responsibility for fulfilling the president’s demands, publishing the name not only on their own pages but enlisting Facebook’s paid promotion tools to get the individual’s name in front of hundreds of thousands of users who may not have sought out such content on their own. “Well, as far as that particular person, regardless of whether or not he’s a whistleblower, he apparently worked for [former CIA Director John] Brennan. Trump. October 31, 2019. According to CNN, the inspector general for the intelligence committee mentioned and dismissed concerns about political bias because the whistleblower is registered as a Democrat. Ciaramella also has ties to Sean Misko, a former NSC co-worker who now works for Representative Adam Schiff and the Intelligence Committee. Many of these whistleblowers were fired from their jobs or prosecuted in the process of shining light on their issue of concern. The whistleblower whose complaint has led to an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump is a CIA officer, US media report. Jack Posobiec ― a Trump supporter who pushed the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy theory that prominent Democratic politicians were involved in a child sex abuse ring and is now a correspondent for the conservative One America News Network — tweeted the name of the CIA officer on Oct. 3, two weeks after elements of the whistleblower’s complaint became public. The steep climb in Twitter references to the named person peaked the day after the RealClearInvestigations article’s publication, according to research by Darren Linvill, an associate professor of communication at Clemson University. The unnamed officer once worked at … There are stories galore about the flurry of Tweets the President made, noting how many of the accounts he Tweeted were “questionable.” They shouldn’t even go near that." Gohmert asked Jaresko, if, in her previous role, she was, aware of “Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko dispatching Olga Bielkova or any other Ukrainian official to the U.S. in order to conduct an influence campaign on the 2016 election here in the United States?” He then asked, “Are you aware of Ukrainian parliamentarian Bielkova’s April 12 meetings with Liz Zentos and Eric Ciaramella of the Obama National Security Council?”, North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows told reporters, “I can’t tell you what happens in the depositions, but I can tell you there’s one person in one’s group of staff members who know who the whistleblower is and that is Adam Schiff, and so you need to ask him whether this guy is the real deal.”, Senator Rand Paul tweeted, “It is being reported that the whistleblower was Joe Biden’s point man on Ukraine. ),” but details of the email are not included in the redacted report. The whistleblower’s attorneys and Democrats have fought to keep his identity concealed, while Trump and his Republican allies have called for him to be identified publicly, saying he should be questioned about why he came forward and possible political bias because of his background. Kupchan, a key Obama adviser, told Foreign Policy the alt-right led an “unprecedented” attack on civil servants, calling the “systematic hostility” against the “deep state” as “misplaced” and “dangerous.”. In November 2015, Ciaramella is named as one of the officials who attended a White House meeting with Ukrainian religious leaders, along with his boss, Charles Kupchan. ““I was concerned by the call. The student newspaper wrote, “Students convened outside Silliman at 9 a.m., all dressed in white to symbolize their future goal of bridging the gap between the United States and the Middle East through the use of the Arab language, said Eric Ciaramella ’08, one of the students who led the protest.”, Ciaramella also studied at Harvard University, focusing on Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, according to the school’s website. If this is truly the whistleblower, this is a guy who has been accused in the past of leaking presidential phone calls with world leaders, notoriously anti-Trump, and was fired from the NSC by Trump. Social media sites failing to stop users sharing purported identity of … Eric Ciaramella. The campaign on social media to out the whistleblower, who has legal protection from retaliation, intensified as Trump and his allies in Congress ramped up their calls for the individual to be identified. “Like other whistle-blowers have done before and since under Republican and Democratic-controlled committees, the whistle-blower contacted the committee for guidance on how to report possible wrongdoing within the jurisdiction of the intelligence community,” said Patrick Boland, a spokesman for Schiff, told The Times. Vindication of their claims could end up solidifying their fan base, he said, noting that prominent purveyors of the QAnon conspiracy theory jumped on the bandwagon, along with doggedly pro-Trump pundits. https://t.co/mqoJ8cTvJR, — Mark S. Zaid (@MarkSZaidEsq) September 26, 2019. Vindman said during his Congressional deposition, “I want the committee to know I am not the whistleblower who brought this issue to the CIA and the committee’s attention. Trump is accused of forcing a quid pro quo in which aid to Ukraine would only be released if an investigation was launched. The … While Fox News has banned its hosts and contributors from mentioning Ciaramella’s name, according to CNN, one of the network’s guests, syndicated radio host Lars Larson, said the name during a segment on November 7 on “Outnumbered Overtime” with Harris Faulkner. The most important news stories of the day, curated by Post editors and delivered every morning. D’Annunzio, who said he owns several skydiving businesses, gained those views for about $1,000, according to Facebook’s ad archive. Together, these communities project enormous influence online, in part through followings that experts think are sprinkled with inauthentic accounts controlled by automated software. After Real Clear Investigation’s report, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, whose nationally syndicated show reaches millions of listeners, named Ciaramella on air. He worked for Biden. Oct 4, 2019 (NationalSentinel) Investigative reporter Paul Sperry dropped a couple of bombshells Thursday night that should help blow this Democrat/Deep State “Ukraine” scandal aimed at President Trump right out of the water. Ukraine whistleblower named by reporter. Chase Collegiate School “If the ads are meant to intimidate and harass and threaten people, that would be wrong, and it might be illegal,” said John N. Tye, a former State Department official who became a whistleblower in 2014 and later founded the nonprofit Whistleblower Aid, which has been supporting the legal team working with the individuals in the Ukraine case. They’re hiding him. He inquired about her previous position as Ukraine's Minister of Finance from December 2014 until April 2016 and how she acquired her new position. This is a list of major whistleblowers from various countries. The White House “whistleblower” is Eric Ciaramella. He’s just a guy going to work every day.”. Democratic Rep. David Cicilline, of Rhode Island, tweeted, “If you spent part of today Tweeting the name of a person you think is the whistleblower, you probably need to re-evaluate your life.”. Kris Coratti, a spokeswoman for The Post, said: “The Washington Post has long respected the right of whistleblowers to report wrongdoing in confidence, which protects them against retaliation. The White House knows. ... he reported to former CIA Director John Brennan inside the White House. Sources told Real Clear Investigations that Ciaramella’s name has been mentioned as the whistleblower during the closed-door testimony. President Obama and Ambassador Susan Rice pictured together in November 2015. The president retweeted talk radio host Mark Levin over the weekend, sharing a Breitbart article that included the purported name of the whistleblower. GettyNational Security Adviser H. R. McMaster speaks during a briefing at the White House on May 16, 2017.