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Who Is the Whistleblower?
Editorial of The New York Sun | September 26, 2019
The question that jumps out of the House Intelligence hearing is: Who is the whistleblower? It’s incredible, at least to us, that the vast machinery of the House and the Democratic Party is being cranked up to impeach a president based on an allegation from an individual who is anonymous. It seems that no one involved knows his name.
Story continues below advertisementWouldn’t it make sense, what with all the talk by Democrats about fealty to the Constitution, for Congress to disclose who the whistleblower is? The Bill of Rights, after all, establishes that an accused person shall enjoy the right to be confronted with the witnesses against him. Yet here the President of America has no idea of who is accusing him.
Neither does America’s acting director of national intelligence, Vice Admiral Maguire. He’s the head of our entire intelligence apparatus, privy to the nation’s most sensitive secrets. Yet he’s forced to make an assessment of a poison pen letter from someone whose name and identity he doesn’t know. And who is in his own chain of command.
Kafka couldn’t make this up. It’s as bad as a hearing on a college campus. We understand that the Sixth Amendment does not apply to politics. It applies only to the all persons accused in criminal prosecutions. Yet it can be said that the Sixth — which grants confrontation — is the very soul of fairness in the American system.
We had just issued the first edition of this editorial when the New York Times reported that the whistleblower is a CIA officer who had been detailed to the White House but is back at the agency. The Times didn’t name the individual. It quoted his lawyer as calling publishing “any perceived identifying information” as “deeply concerning.”
Yet confrontation could well help the President, his lawyers, and Congress assess the accuser’s motive. That strikes us as relevant. The accuser was using the whistleblower procedure established to cover intelligence community individuals and intelligence operations. It is being used to attack a president on a matter other than intelligence.
How can we know the whistleblower’s motives were pure? An aversion to poison pen letters and anonymous sources is no passing concern here at the Sun. It’s baked into our core principles and marked in “The New York Sun Reporter’s Handbook and Manual of Style,” which says: “Unattributed negative quotes are not to be used in the Sun.”
Arrangements are reportedly being worked on that might permit the whistleblower against Mr. Trump to be questioned by the Intelligence Committee. Reports suggest such a meeting would take place behind closed doors, and it is not clear that the whistleblower’s identity would become known to the public, let alone the individual being accused
We understand that whistleblowers often fear that standing up in public invites repercussions; a dispatch on this head appears in Politico today. Requiring that whistles are blown in public might mean some wrong-doing goes unexposed. Then again, too, the right of confrontation in criminal trials means some guilty parties go unpunished.
It’s not our intention to gainsay the ideals of the whistleblower against Mr. Trump or attack his character. It is our intention to suggest that Americans are not going to understand fully what is happening in the impeachment proceeding until the whistleblower finds it within himself to come forward in person. That’s the American way.
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4 years ago
Susan Gordon
4 years ago
Could it be Michael Barry?
“Gossip-blower” is Male CIA Operative Formerly Part of White House NSC…
Posted on September 26, 2019 by sundance
According to the New York Times the complaint derives from a male who was a former CIA operative on assignment within National Security Council (NSC), who left the White House and returned to the CIA:
(More cancellations of the NYT – https://www.foxnews.com/media/cancel-new-york-times-subscriptions-trump-whistleblower for outlining whistle blower.)
WASHINGTON — The whistle-blower who revealed that President Trump sought foreign help for his re-election and that the White House sought to cover it up is a C.I.A. officer who was detailed to work at the White House at one point, according to three people familiar with his identity.
The man has since returned to the C.I.A., the people said. Little else is known about him. His complaint made public Thursday 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. (more)https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/us/politics/who-is-whistleblower.html
The outlined profile, in combination with the political motive, have led many people to begin searching through:
(1) current CIA operatives;
(2) who come from the era of Brennan; and
3) were previously assigned to the White House (NSC); and
(4) then removed; and
(5) then returned to the CIA.
That profile has led to suspicions of identity.
A strong possibility for the identity, a person who checks all the boxes of known attributes, follows a trail to Michael Barry:
JULY 2018 –
One source quoted in the report Tuesday said that Barry is leaving on “very good terms,” but that his departure will be a “tough loss.” Barry is reportedly returning to the CIA, where he served before joining the NSC. (link)
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/397553-top-intel-official-leaving-national-security-council-report
An October 2017 Politico article outlines Barry as he replaced Ezra Cohen Watnick [SEE HERE].
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/06/national-security-council-michael-barry-trump-243548
CIA operative Michael Barry was put in place by National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster:
Michael Barry was later removed by John Bolton [2018] after Bolton became National Security Advisor. [SEE HERE] “Barry’s departure is on “very good terms,” one source said, but it will be a “tough loss for the NSC.” According to the source, Barry is returning to the Central Intelligence Agency, where he served before joining the NSC staff. His detail from CIA to the NSC is coming up, The Daily Beast has learned” [2018 LINK]
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/aramroston/new-nsc-intel-chief-once-worked-on-a-cia-assassination
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/397553-top-intel-official-leaving-national-security-council-report
Though it is speculation, the known profile fits this specific individual. Given the ‘whistleblower’ hired a well-known partisan political lawyer to represent his current accusations; and given the political nature of his claims with no direct evidence to support them; the motive of the deep state also matches the profile of Michael Barry. Linkin resume https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-barry-599b7013b/
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https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/09/26/gossip-blower-is-male-cia-operative-formerly-part-of-white-house-nsc/#more-172063
4 years ago
Anyone aligned with Muslim, John Brennan or McMaster is not a good person…
4 years ago
Where’s Hunter Biden?
No interviews?
No proclamations of innocence?
Remember Hunter is the one that divorced his wife to shack up with his dead BROTHER Beau’s wife.
Beau died of brain cancer.
https://pagesix.com/2017/03/01/widow-of-joe-bidens-deceased-son-having-affair-with-brother-in-law-hunter/
Hunter was also kicked out of the military reserve for using cocaine.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/joe-bidens-son-hunter-kicked-out-navy-cocaine-n227811
Hunter ditched his deceased brother’s wife for a South African woman he knew for only 10 days and that includes the day they met. https://pagesix.com/2019/06/12/hunter-biden-secretly-marries-south-african-beauty-melissa-cohen/
Wouldn’t you want him on your board with no knowledge of the industry and paying him for that?
Need I mention CHINA paying him too?
What a creepy CORRUPT family!
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Hunter Biden is in a crack house in Delaware.
Actually, any crack house.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Allegations against Biden ‘not credible,’ testified US official now touted by Trump
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/allegations-against-biden-not-credible-testified-us-official-now-touted-by-trump/ar-AAJZwhx?ocid=spartandhp
4 years ago
OOPS!
There is EVIDENCE…..
Former Ukranian Prosecutor Viktor Shokin Sworn Affidavit Outlining Joe Biden Shakedown…
Posted on September 26, 2019 by sundance
John Solomon is reporting on a myriad of documents that highlight how Vice-President Joe Biden engaged in a pressure and influence campaign upon the government of Ukraine to financially benefit his son Hunter Biden.
[SEE HERE]
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/463307-solomon-these-once-secret-memos-cast-doubt-on-joe-bidens-ukraine-story#.XY02ewYDEV8.twitter
One of those documents is a sworn affidavit by former Ukrainian Prosecutor Viktor Shokin (pdf):
https://www.scribd.com/document/427618359/Shokin-Statement
4 years ago
Barack Husein Obama
4 years ago
Off topic – GOOD NEWS!!!!!
Congress wouldn’t act so Trump found a way around them.
Trump immigration plans:
US signs deal to deport migrants to Honduras
26 September 2019
Honduras has signed a deal with the United States to accept migrants applying for asylum in the US.
Under the agreement, the US would be able to deport to Honduras asylum seekers who passed through the country on the way to the US southern border.
…
Guatemala and El Salvador have already signed similar deals.
(Now Honduras joins them!!!! We have had people coming for countries all over the world coming in through our southern border – Pakistan, China, India, Africa etc.. Mexico has financial incentive to STOP them or get slapped with a tariff built into the USMCA about to be passed in Congress. Mexico also has 27K troops spread out on their borders. Tent video conferenced rejections will clear them out.)
The US has been trying to sign “safe third country” agreements that would allow it to send back asylum seekers who pass through countries on the way to the US without seeking protection there.
US President Donald Trump has made reducing the numbers of migrants crossing the US-Mexico border a key priority.
The bulk of those arriving at the border are from the three countries of Central America’s so-called Northern Triangle – Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. Many have made long and perilous journeys in their attempt to start a new life in the US.
On Wednesday, a senior US Department of Homeland Security official told US media that the deal with Honduras would “allow migrants to seek protection as close to home as possible”.
Migration experts quoted by Honduran newspaper El Heraldo said that Cubans, Venezuelans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and some Africans pass through Honduras heading to the US. Mexioc announced a 56% drop in migrants.
Earlier this month, the US Supreme Court allowed the government to stop people arriving at the southern border from seeking protection if they failed to do so in a country they passed through en route.
4 years ago
THE BILL OF RIGHTS, AFTER ALL, ESTABLISHES THAT AN ACCUSED PERSON SHALL ENJOY THE RIGHT TO BE CONFRONTED WITH THE WITNESSES AGAINST HIM. YET HERE THE PRESIDENT OF AMERICA HAS NO IDEA OF WHO IS ACCUSING HIM.
I’m no lawyer, but I do not believe that provision of the constitution applies in this situation. For one thing, the whisleblower is not making an accusation in a court of law. It is up to the House to legally charge the president, and they should do so based on evidence that may be supplied by a whistelblower. The writer was fair enough to note:
It [the Sixth Amendment] applies only to the all persons accused in criminal prosecutions.
I think the whistleblower law has provisions to maintain the anonymity of the “whistler”. I don’t think we want to curtail denizens of the “deep state” from coming forth with information that may reveal improper behavior by government officials.
Nonetheless, to it’s credit, the Sun seems equivocal about calling for Congress to name the whistleblower here:
It is our intention to suggest that Americans are not going to understand fully what is happening in the impeachment proceeding until the whistleblower finds it within himself to come forward in person.
I think the Sun (Pamela?) is speaking out of its (her?) hat here. Slow news day?
4 years ago
This is a team effort. While one person is the “whistleblower”, a number of people provided the leaked info. The bureaucracy was weaponized by Obama, and the human weapons of the radical left are now being deployed in anticipation of the 2020 election.
4 years ago
The democraps are the most amateur coup plotters in the history of mankind.
4 years ago
A person has the right to face their accuser.
NO anonymity.
4 years ago
Poison pen letter? Are you trying to deny that what the whistleblower has said is accurate? Even the Trump Gang and the Republicans in Congress aren’t trying to do that.
4 years ago
So far, the whistleblowers are Bill Taylor, Gordon Sondland, Fiona Hill, Marie Yovanovitch, George Kent, Philip Reeker, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, Catherine Croft, Christopher Anderson, Timothy Morrison, David Hale, Laura Cooper, Michael McKinley, Kurt Volker, who provided the incriminating texts.
