- Trump’s conservative allies of President Donald Trump are trying to unmask the intelligence community official whose complaint set off impeachment probe
- Secondhand account of Trump’s call to Ukraine’s president provided roadmap for Democrats investigating what they say is abuse of power
- Jim Jordan complained that the processĀ started with whistleblower ‘who has a bias against the president, who worked with Vice President Biden.’Ā
- CIA agent’s attorneys say naming a suspected whistleblower would beĀ irresponsible
- ‘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.’Ā
The explosive allegations have been largely corroborated. The whistleblower’s identity is legally protected.
Now conservative allies of President Donald Trump are trying to unmask the intelligence community official whose complaint served as the catalyst for Democrat-led impeachment probe.
The CIA official’s identity has been cloaked in secrecy since the September revelation of the whistleblower complaint that raised alarms about the president’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
In the July 25 call, Trump pressed the new leader of the eastern European country to investigate Trump’s political rivals.
The whistleblower’s secondhand account of the call provided a roadmap for House Democrats investigating whether the president and others in his orbit pressured Ukraine to probe political opponents, including former Vice President Joe Biden.
Now the Washington guessing game over the whistleblower’s identity is taking a more perilous turn as Trump allies, relying on scant biographical details, work to pierce the person’s anonymity in a bid to defend the president.