Sounds A Bit Coup Coup: Trump-Ukraine Whistleblower Hid Contacts With Schiff From Inspector General
By: Matt Vespa
Eric Ciaramella is a fraud. There is nothing legitimate about what he did and he’s not a whistleblower at all.
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Bronson wrote about the alleged Trump-Ukraine whistleblower. His name has reportedly been revealed: Eric Ciaramella. Yes, it’s everything you’d expect from an anti-Trump deep state operative. He’s an Obama holdover, a registered Democrat, a CIA agent, and worked with a Democratic National Committee operative, Alexandra Chalupa, to get dirt on Trump in 2016. Paul Sperry at Real Clear Investigations did the deep dive (via RCI ):
Federal documents reveal that the 33-year-old Ciaramella, a registered Democrat held over from the Obama White House, previously worked with former Vice President Joe Biden and former CIA Director John Brennan, a vocal critic of Trump who helped initiate the Russia “collusion” investigation of the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.
Further, Ciaramella (pronounced char-a-MEL-ah) left his National Security Council posting in the White House’s West Wing in mid-2017 amid concerns about negative leaks to the media. He has since returned to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
“He was accused of working against Trump and leaking against Trump,” said a former NSC official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters.
Also, Ciaramella huddled for “guidance” with the staff of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, including former colleagues also held over from the Obama era whom Schiff’s office had recently recruited from the NSC. (Schiff is the lead prosecutor in the impeachment inquiry.)
And Ciaramella worked with a Democratic National Committee operative who dug up dirt on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election, inviting her into the White House for meetings, former White House colleagues said. The operative, Alexandra Chalupa, a Ukrainian-American who supported Hillary Clinton, led an effort to link the Republican campaign to the Russian government. “He knows her. He had her in the White House,” said one former co-worker, who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter.
Prior to Ciaramella being named as the possible whistleblower, there were reports that this person had contacted Adam Schiff’s staff prior to filing the report. Schiff knew of its contents beforehand. Remember that this report is based on second-hand information, Ciaramella, or whoever the whistleblower is, never listened in on the July call, where there has been an allegation that Trump shook down the Ukraine political leadership into opening a corruption probe into Hunter Biden or risk having aid withheld. It’s shoddy. The impeachment process has up until recently been in the dark, where Schiff has been controlling the flow of information, even towards GOP members on the House Intelligence Committee, who are given a one-page summary of the interviews that can only be read in the presence of a Democratic staffer. And now, we have this whistleblower concealing his contacts with the Intelligence Community inspector general (via The Federalist ):
The anti-Trump whistleblower whose allegations against President Donald Trump sent Congress into an impeachment frenzy concealed his interactions with House Democrats from the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) and failed to disclose them as required, Fox News reported on Friday.
According to Fox News investigative reporter Catherine Herridge, ICIG Michael Atkinson testified before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) that the anti-Trump complainant, whose identity has not been made public, did not inform the ICIG in his complaint that he or his team had already contacted Democratic staff working for Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the chairman of the House intelligence committee.
The complainant’s failure to disclose his interactions with Schiff or his staff could put him in legal hot water, as the whistleblower form he submitted requires individuals to disclose “other actions you are taking on your disclosure” under penalty of perjury. An entire page of the whistleblower form is dedicated to collecting information about previous disclosures so the ICIG can take appropriate action in response to the complaint.
To add more to the palace intrigue, we’re hearing that the National Security Council official who actually listened in on the call, said that nothing illegal was discussed and that the Trump White House transcript of the call that debunked the quid pro quo nonsense is accurate.
Democrats took this whole effort into the bunker because they wanted narrative control. The public hearings they held for Russian collusion trashed that first attempt to impeach Trump, so Schiff and his minions went DEFCON 1 in order to manufacture this circus. Also, they could get away with stuff like this in the shadows :
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who is overseeing the ongoing illegitimate impeachment inquiry set in motion by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is reportedly telling witnesses testifying not to answer questions asked by Republican lawmakers.
Speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., slammed the hidden process claiming Schiff was instructing witnesses testifying behind the closed doors of the SCIF not to answer questions asked by Republican members.
So, excuse me if I’m a bit skeptical of this entire charade. We have a whistleblower who is a Democrat, worked at the Obama White House, contacted that main QB for the impeachment effort—Schiff—and then didn’t tell the ICIG about these little rendezvous. Oh, and all of this while the Democrats were holding a secret impeachment trial against President Trump because he won the 2016 election. Yeah, until all the transcripts of the interviews thus far have been released. I will never believe anything the Democrats have to say, especially if it’s from shifty Schiff’s office. It's all a bit…coup coup.
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More than two months after the official filed his complaint, pretty much all that’s known publicly about him is that he is a CIA analyst who at one point was detailed to the White House and is now back working at the CIA.
But the name of a government official fitting that description — Eric Ciaramella — has been raised privately in impeachment depositions, according to officials with direct knowledge of the proceedings, as well as in at least one open hearing held by a House committee not involved in the impeachment inquiry. Fearing their anonymous witness could be exposed, Democrats this week blocked Republicans from asking more questions about him and intend to redact his name from all deposition transcripts.
RealClearInvestigations is disclosing the name because of the public’s interest in learning details of an effort to remove a sitting president from office. Further, the official's status as a “whistleblower” is complicated by his being a hearsay reporter of accusations against the president, one who has “some indicia of an arguable political bias … in favor of a rival political candidate" -- as the Intelligence Community Inspector General phrased it circumspectly in originally fielding his complaint.
Federal documents reveal that the 33-year-old Ciaramella, a registered Democrat held over from the Obama White House, previously worked with former Vice President Joe Biden and former CIA Director John Brennan, a vocal critic of Trump who helped initiate the Russia “collusion” investigation of the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.
Democrats took this whole effort into the bunker because they wanted narrative control. The public hearings they held for Russian collusion trashed that first attempt to impeach Trump, so Schiff and his minions went DEFCON 1 in order to manufacture this circus. Also, they could get away with stuff like this in the shadows :
So, excuse me if I’m a bit skeptical of this entire charade. We have a whistleblower who is a Democrat, worked at the Obama White House, contacted that main QB for the impeachment effort—Schiff—and then didn’t tell the ICIG about these little rendezvous. Oh, and all of this while the Democrats were holding a secret impeachment trial against President Trump because he won the 2016 election.
Zero shame where there should be mountains of it.
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Jan. 20, 2017 at 12:19 p.m. EST
Something that is interesting and I've been saying it on this site as well as the other site for years.
Those who are with the state (Liberals, Democrats, etc) don't realize what we have to deal with as Conservatives. Stop looking for things of any importance on Google, because we're already living in the Totalitarian government. If you search with Google "The Case for Impeaching Trump Now Begins" on Google you will not find anything relating to it. Some may, but I haven't gotten what I searched for in such cases for years. I remember when I searched for "All the Good Things Bush Has Done" after Obama was elected and the first half dozen screens that came up were about Obama, not Bush.
If you're a Liberal, you will have it easy with Google. If you are not a Liberal, you'd better start using other sources. In this case, it's easy to see what Google has done. They don't want you to be as aware there has been a concerted effort to impeach Trump and instead put the emphasis on today's news that supports the Liberal's agenda. We, on here are much more involved in Politics, at least to the extent of keeping up with things, but most Americans here the "Top of the Hour News" and you wouldn't have any idea there was any question or opposition to what they tell us.
That's why I put videos on here quite often, because until these videos are purged, as quite a few of them have been purged over the last few years, we still have evidence. A lot of times, it is the "search" that has been purged and the information is just much harder for us to find.
The video above has something to do with impeach by Left Wing politicians and the MSN in it for every month since 2016, right up until today.
1984 has arrived and most Americans don't even know it.
This fellow, Eric Ciaramella, has been known for months and a non-corrupt MSM, or should I say NON- STATE media would have searched out the truth or reported something, but I bet you can't find anything from them even today.
They are still trying to hide Eric Ciaramella’s name and are denying that he really is in fact the so called whistleblower.
All of that is pure fantasy conjecture. We don't even know if the whistle-blower is a male let alone what party they are registered with, as if that should matter anyway. The right want to paint any person who dare register as Democrat a lawless criminal who would jump at the chance to lie, cheat and steal regardless of how long or how spotless their actual records are. For them, just being a Democrat means you're willing to break your oath of office and can't be trusted. Strange they never apply the same standard to Republicans, but I guess that would be too much to ask from the masters of hypocrisy.
And Eric Ciaramella is not a genuine whistleblower but is a democrat party partisan hack.
How do you know this? From this seed?
I've no doubt his "deep dive" is about as real as the "deep state", which is to say, total nonsense. A partisan reporter claims the whistle-blower is an Obama/Biden operative Democrat and gives zero evidence of the claim, how convenient.
More unadulterated bullshit.
"Republicans have denounced the impeachment inquiry as happening in "secret," a "sham," and a "Soviet-style process," but the 47 Republicans on the committees leading the investigation have access to the closed-door depositions ."
More than two months after the official filed his complaint, pretty much all that’s known publicly about him is that he is a CIA analyst who at one point was detailed to the White House and is now back working at the CIA.
But the name of a government official fitting that description — Eric Ciaramella — has been raised privately in impeachment depositions, according to officials with direct knowledge of the proceedings, as well as in at least one open hearing held by a House committee not involved in the impeachment inquiry. Fearing their anonymous witness could be exposed, Democrats this week blocked Republicans from asking more questions about him and intend to redact his name from all deposition transcripts.
RealClearInvestigations is disclosing the name because of the public’s interest in learning details of an effort to remove a sitting president from office. Further, the official's status as a “whistleblower” is complicated by his being a hearsay reporter of accusations against the president, one who has “some indicia of an arguable political bias … in favor of a rival political candidate" -- as the Intelligence Community Inspector General phrased it circumspectly in originally fielding his complaint.
Federal documents reveal that the 33-year-old Ciaramella, a registered Democrat held over from the Obama White House, previously worked with former Vice President Joe Biden and former CIA Director John Brennan, a vocal critic of Trump who helped initiate the Russia “collusion” investigation of the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.
I knew that there would be crickets 🦗 and lots of them in response to the expose of their contaminated by his associations and outlook so called whistleblower.
The whistleblower's name is completely insignificant. His motive is insignificant. His previous affiliations are insignificant.
Only mopes and dopes think the whistleblower's identity is important to the impeachment inquiry.
The nature of the way the house is conducting itself will cause it to if it reaches the senate to die there. The house designees will read their “charges” and then upon their reading will be a vote to dismiss requiring 51 votes and then it will end.