Bertrand/politico: whistleblower is being repped by former CIA officer

[Leghorn21]

Last edited Wed Sep 25, 2019, 01:15 AM - Edit history (1)

NEW: The whistleblower is being represented by Andrew P. Bakaj,
a former CIA officer.
Others familiar with the whistleblower’s complaint have confirmed
to @politico that it involves the president’s communications.

Link to tweet

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The whistleblower is being represented by Andrew P. Bakaj, a former CIA officer and managing partner at the Compass Ross Legal Group, a national security law firm.

Bakaj, who formerly worked as a lawyer in the CIA Office of the Inspector General, declined to comment on his client or the Post’s story. Others familiar with the whistleblower’s complaint, however, confirmed its broad outlines and that it involves the president’s communications.

According to Schiff, Maguire intervened to block the documents from being transmitted to lawmakers, diverting the complaint to the Justice Department and telling the committee that would refuse to share it because it involved someone outside the intelligence community and might involve matters of confidentiality and privilege....

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/19/trump-denies-comment-foreign-leader-whistleblower-1502945

[Mike 03]

1. Good. That's one more person who knows what's going on in case anything "happens"

to the whistleblower.

[Leghorn21]

2. Agreed, Mike - I have only the dimmest idea what's going on, but was so relieved to know

that the WB has someone who DOES know is looking after him/her - whew, at least it’s a small piece of good news -

[lagomorph777]

6. Bakaj can't know the details either - it's classified.

But he knows how the CIA works, and will presumably be very protective of a colleague.

[H2O Man]

9. Maybe, maybe not.

It's not rare for a person in his position to maintain clearance.

[lagomorph777]

14. Hadn't thought of that.

That's an interesting possibility. Each person who knows the details is one more path to the truth getting out.

[H2O Man]

15. Although it is not

being reported yet in the media, it is safe to say that the whistle-blower had not only run the situation by this specific attorney before he filed his concerns, but that this attorney assisted him in the task.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Since the acting DNI willing to break law to hide this, prob there is a recording

I doubt this would have got to this point if it was simply he said / (s)he said. For an allegation as incendiary as this, I doubt a whistle blower would go forward without something substantial.

[uponit7771]

12. +1, this ... a he said she said Red Don would've already claimed the WB was fake news and it has

... to be more than Red Don promising something simple and small.

[MartyTheGreek]

4. Confidentiality and Privilege get shit-canned...

Confidentiality and Privilege get shit-canned when our WH Occupier has been influenced by privilege to order up a hotel casino in enemy territory.

Where are the oath keepers now?

[wiggs]

5. Get an emergency injunction to block the stonewalling. nt

[Botany]

7. Trump has pissed off the intelligence community

Bad move.

[superpatriotman]

8. Why cant this 'whistleblower' act like Lewandowski?

and just say 'fuck everyone' I'll do what I want.

[scarytomcat]

11. why not he is going to be fired

might as well go on Rachel's show and spill it all but he should follow his lawyers advice

[uponit7771]

10. K&R,

[Takket]

13. so can we officaly just............

toss this on the pile of "shit we won't hear about for another year while privileged lawsuit #572758" works its way through the courts? or is there some other alternative we have to like... you know... NOT let national security exist completely compromised for months when we already know the law doesn't give the DNI the authority to suppress whistleblower complaints?