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2019-10-31 Home Front: Politix
'Whistleblower' May Be Outed: Ties to Biden, Ukraine, Brennan, Schiff's Staff, Etc
Also submitted by Beavis and 3dc. :-) This article is an amalgamation of key bits from the much longer original at the link. It should be noted, though, that a trusted source mentioned that it is rumoured the gentleman described below is merely a decoy to distract attention from the real whistleblower. No doubt we will discover the truth of it all soon enough, President Trump having displayed a fondness for sunshine.
[RealClearInvestigations] For a town that leaks like a sieve, Washington has done an astonishingly effective job keeping from the American public the name of the anonymous "whistleblower" who triggered impeachment proceedings against President Trump; even though his identity is an open secret inside the Beltway.

- Registered Democrat
- Worked for Obama
- Worked with Joe Biden
- Worked for CIA Director John Brennan
- Vocal critic of Trump
- Helped initiate the Russia "collusion" investigation hoax

33-year-old Eric Anthony 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.

Eric Ciaramella, a class of 2004 Connecticut prep student: He later moved on to Yale and the White House. Now he could be at the center of an impeachment storm.

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.)

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.

Also, engaged Alexandra Chalupa, DNC oppo researcher was invited to the Obama White House by Ciaramella.

She visited the White House with a number of Ukrainian officials lobbying the Obama administration for aid for Ukraine.

Federal records show that Biden’s office invited Ciaramella to an October 2016 state luncheon the vice president hosted for Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. Other guests included Brennan, as well as then-FBI Director James Comey and then-National Intelligence Director James Clapper.

Several U.S. officials told RealClearInvestigations that the invitation that was extended to Ciaramella, a relatively low-level GS-13

He was held over into the Trump administration, and headed the Ukraine desk at the NSC, eventually transitioning into the West Wing, until June 2017. "He was moved over to the front office" to temporarily fill a vacancy, said a former White House official, where he "saw everything, read everything."

Eric 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.

Ciaramella left the Trump White House soon after Mueller was appointed. Attempts to reach Ciaramella were unsuccessful, although his father said in a phone interview from Hartford, where he is a bank executive, that he doubted his son was the whistleblower.

In May 2017, Ciaramella went "outside his chain of command," according to a former NSC co-worker, to send an email alerting another agency that Trump happened to hold a meeting with Russian diplomats in the Oval Office the day after firing Comey, who led the Trump-Russia investigation. The email also noted that Russian President Vladimir Putin had phoned the president a week earlier.

Contents of the email appear to have ended up in the media, which reported Trump boasted to the Russian officials about firing Comey, whom he allegedly called "crazy, a real nut job."

In effect, Ciaramella helped generate the "Putin fired Comey" narrative, according to the research dossier making the rounds in Congress, a copy of which was obtained by RealClearInvestigations.

Ciaramella allegedly argued that "President Putin suggested that President Trump fire Comey," the report said.

If it turns out Eric Ciaramella is Schiftie's informant, people ought to know that Billionaire Clinton donor Victor Pinchuk sent MP Bielkova to meet with him same day she met with David Kramer and kicked Steele Dossier operation into high gear. ie "Whistleblower" = Dossier 2.0.

As others have noted, Ciaramella linked to Nuland (who promoted Steele reports throughout State Dept. to influence 2016 election). This email directly related to Biden threatening to withhold Billion dollar loan guarantee (If not mistaken). Same timeframe as Pinchuk sponsored mtg
Posted by Threper Shusing1035 2019-10-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [336096 views ]  Top

#1 Grinning idiot.
Shitshow Part 163.
Posted by Lex 2019-10-31 00:22||   2019-10-31 00:22|| Front Page Top

#2 The duplicate of this article has now been deleted, 3dc’s additions having been added to this one. But not before the slightly-too-efficient Lex made the following comment, herewith preserved:

Up = down
Night = Day
Clinton (actual) collusion w Ukraine =
Trump (mythical, alleged) collusion w Russia

Shitshow Part 161


My apologies for going past the deadline to complete it.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-10-31 00:36||   2019-10-31 00:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Le Shitshow continue, toujours
Posted by Lex 2019-10-31 00:43||   2019-10-31 00:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Shifftie, I LIKED that.
Posted by Snemble Ebbaick7350 2019-10-31 04:29||   2019-10-31 04:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Chalupa is tied to a convicted domestic terrorist/drug dealer, first convicted of perjury (and frequent practitioner of it since), who travelled overseas to try to find dirt on Trump. This terrorist/drug dealer has led a charmed life, seemingly protected by Democrats ever since he made the claim he once sold pot to a kid who went on to be a U.S. Vice President.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2019-10-31 05:31||   2019-10-31 05:31|| Front Page Top

#6 
'Eric Salmonella was a CIA analyst and expert on Ukraine and Russia. He was detailed to the Obama White House NSC as Director of Baltic and Eastern European Affairs including Ukraine. Ciaramella was a known Susan Rice protege. He is said to have traveled to Ukraine with Vice President Joe Biden twice.'

More here
Posted by Dron66046 2019-10-31 06:10||   2019-10-31 06:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Is projection all the dems/deep-state/GOPe really have?

Is it all they EVER had?
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-10-31 06:26||   2019-10-31 06:26|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ #6 devastating web, Dron. It's mind-boggling that McMaster allowed this traitorous little shut to be his top personal aide . Did Ciaramella really have access, via McMaster, to all of Trump's conversations with foreign leaders?

Unbelievable. If true, then this little shit is the messenger boy at the center of the coup effort.

The ties to Clinton hatchet man and Steele Shitshow PR man Sid Blumenthal, to Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Pinchuk and to the rabidly anti-Russian Dept conspirator and troublemaker Victoria Nuland are especially interesting. Also the tie to Italy's Matteo Renzi and the CIA cats paw, the Maltese agent operating out of Rome, Joseph Milsud, who tried to entrap Papadopolous and turn him against Trump.

Burisma is the tip of the iceberg. The conspiracy here leads back to Hillary's campaign and Obama's CIA and State Dept people, and it involves foreign agents drawn from countries across Europe-- Ukrainians, Italians, Brits, a Maltese, Australians.

No wonder Barr flew to Europe for his investigation.

This little weasel Ciaramella was just one of many leakers but he was connected to everyone.

Thank God we outed him as early as we did. If these people were not so clownishly, blatantly, astonishingly incompetent -- cf Sid Blumenthal's history of beclowning himself as a Clinton shill, or Nuland's disastrous efforts in Ukraine, or Biden's Burisma Bro's, to take three egregious examples -- if these people weren't such clowns, they'd be terrifying.

As it is, they're just barkers, ringmasters and clown car drivers in the Shitshow of Shitshows.

But now we need to bring their Shitshow to an end. Bring down the tent. Never again. Before a truly competent cabal actually does pull off a coup and end our Republic.
Posted by Lex 2019-10-31 07:29||   2019-10-31 07:29|| Front Page Top

#9 Little wonder the demoncrats are so hesitant to make this a true impeachment process. All their dirty tricks will be aired.
Posted by DarthVader 2019-10-31 08:39||   2019-10-31 08:39|| Front Page Top

#10 Thanks for including the photos. It's always iffy when I try to include them.
Posted by Woodrow 2019-10-31 09:21||   2019-10-31 09:21|| Front Page Top

#11 Trump's big mistake was his failure to get rid of all the Obama holdovers the minute he first walked into the White House. Is there some law that kept him from doing that? If so, it needs to be repealed. How can a president govern if he can't trust his staff?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-10-31 11:19||   2019-10-31 11:19|| Front Page Top

#12 IMO there was never an actual whistleblower. It was simply Schiff being a falsehood leaker. But now the pressure is on and there is a need to come up with a real body for the wb role and this dude is the fall guy.
Posted by warthogswife 2019-10-31 13:16||   2019-10-31 13:16|| Front Page Top

#13 ^Hear, hear.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-31 13:21||   2019-10-31 13:21|| Front Page Top

#14 It was easy for Brennan, Comey, Hillary, Obama and others to fabricate a phony conspiracy theory, frame Trump since the MSM was complicit. Joseph Goebbels would have been in awe. If we don`t fix this and get it right, our country long suffer.
Posted by JohnQC 2019-10-31 13:23||   2019-10-31 13:23|| Front Page Top

#15 No surprise the so-called whistleblower had ties to Biden and Brennan. No wonder Schiff said we won't be need him testify. Like every other jury-rigged, jerry-built, Dem-created scandal, this one collapses too.
Posted by JohnQC 2019-10-31 16:25||   2019-10-31 16:25|| Front Page Top

#16 Gonna be hard to smear Trump with this without getting it all over Biden & Co.
Posted by SteveS 2019-10-31 17:17||   2019-10-31 17:17|| Front Page Top

#17 ^Nevertheless, they will manage.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-31 17:25||   2019-10-31 17:25|| Front Page Top

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