{"id":177373,"date":"2019-10-06T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/10\/06\/another-cia-officer-is-lawyering-up\/"},"modified":"2019-10-06T18:05:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T23:05:00","slug":"another-cia-officer-is-lawyering-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/10\/06\/another-cia-officer-is-lawyering-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Another CIA Officer is Lawyering Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone else in the US state security apparatus has contacted the IG in preparation of making a whistle-blower complaint<\/a>: <\/p>\n

A second intelligence official who was alarmed by President Trump\u2019s dealings with Ukraine is weighing whether to file his own formal whistle-blower complaint and testify to Congress, according to two people briefed on the matter. <\/span>
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The official has more direct information about the events than the first whistle-blower, whose complaint<\/a> that Mr. Trump was using his power to get Ukraine to investigate his political rivals touched off an impeachment inquiry<\/a>. The second official is among those interviewed by the intelligence community inspector general to corroborate the allegations of the original whistle-blower, one of the people said.<\/span>
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The inspector general, Michael Atkinson, briefed lawmakers<\/a> privately on Friday about how he substantiated the whistle-blower\u2019s account. It was not clear whether he told lawmakers that the second official was considering filing a complaint.<\/span>
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A new complaint, particularly from someone closer to the events, would potentially add further credibility to the account of the first whistle-blower, a C.I.A. officer<\/a> who was detailed to the National Security Council at one point. He said<\/a> that he relied on information from more than a half-dozen American officials to compile his allegations about Mr. Trump\u2019s campaign to solicit fore<\/span>ign election interference that could benefit him politically. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I still think that Congress should have a broad impeachment investigation, because the complete lawlessness of this administration needs to be made public, but this does make things for Trump and his Evil Minions\u2122<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

As an aside, excluding Trump’s rather incendiary tweets,  the reception that these whistle-blowers have received from the establishment and the intelligence agencies have been far more supportive than (for example) Binney, Drake, and Kiriakou.<\/p>\n

The only logical explanation for this is that this (relatively) benign behavior is a result of their being more supportive of the whistle-blowing regarding the Ukraine than they are of whistle-blowing regarding torture, spying on American citizens, and going to war under false pretense.<\/p>\n

Whistle-blowers are generally treated like sh%$, and this needs to change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someone else in the US state security apparatus has contacted the IG in preparation of making a whistle-blower complaint: A second intelligence official who was alarmed by President Trump\u2019s dealings with Ukraine is weighing whether to file his own formal whistle-blower complaint and testify to Congress, according to two people briefed on the matter. The …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[394,441,560,481,374,454],"class_list":["post-177373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-foreign-relations","tag-former-soviet-union","tag-impeach","tag-intelligence","tag-politics","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}