House Intelligence Committee May Have Whistleblower Testify In Disguise To Protect Identity

The House Intelligence Committee is working to keep the Ukraine whistleblower’s identity confidential, amid incessant efforts by the Trump Administration to determine the informant’s identity and confront him. When the individual does appear before Congress, he or she may do so in disguise or behind a screen to prevent his or her identity from leaking.

Trump believes the impeachment process will work out in his long-run political favor. But he has made extraordinary efforts in attempting to discover who the individual whistleblower is. The president has falsely claimed that the whistleblowing rules were changed to accommodate the secondhand party complaint made against him.

WHO CHANGED THE LONG STANDING WHISTLEBLOWER RULES JUST BEFORE SUBMITTAL OF THE FAKE WHISTLEBLOWER REPORT? DRAIN THE SWAMP!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2019

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Trump has also demanded to meet the whistleblower. The public still knows next-to-nothing about the informant, who, according to the complaint, did not directly witness the conversation and instead was alerted by White House colleagues about it. The New York Times reported the individual is a Langley, Virginia, agency-headquartered CIA officer.

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Despite Trump’s continuous efforts to unveil the informant, he cannot legally do so because the law prohibits identity disclosure of a whistleblower.

His lies were made in perhaps the most blatant and sinister manner ever seen in the great Chamber. He wrote down and read terrible things, then said it was from the mouth of the president of the United States. I want Schiff questioned at the highest level for Fraud & Treason…..

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 29, 2019

….In addition, I want to meet not only my accuser, who presented SECOND & THIRD HAND INFORMATION, but also the person who illegally gave this information, which was largely incorrect, to the “Whistleblower.” Was this person SPYING on the U.S. President? Big Consequences!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 29, 2019