anyone guessing who whistle blower is?

[orleans]

a chicago radio guy made a guess of john bolton.

maybe based on the "i resigned/no, i fired him"

?????

[lapfog_1]

1. Dan Coates

who has been horrified at Trump for some time

[dchill]

3. Either Coats or his former assistant, Sue Gordon.

Or Bolton.

[lapfog_1]

4. yeah... could be her

rumor was a woman... and she would fit the bill

[Funtatlaguy]

12. My dark horse is Melanoma. Be best.

[hlthe2b]

15. She is so non-fluent in English despite decades here, that I don't know how she'd pull it off.

I'm not saying she's not intelligent (I really don't know one way or the other), but she's not going to burn her meal ticket. If she did not have an ironclad prenup/NDA, I think she might have burned him long before now. So, whether it is that she is resigned to that reality or not, increasingly it looks as though she is as complicit as any of them.

[lindysalsagal]

13. I heard Coats. But I know nothing.

Whoever it is, this is a professional, and a veteran fed worker: He/she is doing it right. I'm so looking forward to seeing this unwind, because I need to restore my faith in humanity at this point.

[NCLefty]

10. If makes sense. Trump tightened things up after some of the leaks so there prob weren't that many

people left near him who could hear this stuff.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

2. No, I don't think it's Bolton.

It's probably someone whose name we wouldn't know. Those guys tend to be invisible until they need to step out into the sunshine.

[orleans]

5. that's kind of what i think

...someone we've never heard of

but who knows...?

[dalton99a]

6. An intelligence officer

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/us/politics/trump-ukraine-whistleblower.html

WASHINGTON — The intelligence officer who filed a whistle-blower complaint about President Trump’s interactions with the leader of Ukraine raised alarms not only about what the two men said in a phone call, but also about how the White House handled records of the conversation, according to two people briefed on the complaint.

....

Lawyers for the whistle-blower expressed concern in an interview on Wednesday about officials disclosing their client’s identity.

“Intelligence officers, by nature, are not people who want to be publicly known,” said Andrew P. Bakaj, the lead lawyer for the whistle-blower. “If you are an intelligence officer through and through, you are doing this for national security.”

The comments by Mr. Bakaj — who is representing the officer for free along with two other lawyers, Mark Zaid and Charles McCullough III — were the first, however limited, to the press about the case. Coming forward to the inspector general was very risky, said John Napier Tye, the founder of Whistleblower Aid, which is raising money to defray expenses for the complainant.

“To have the president of the United States tweeting about you, casting aspersions, it is scary for anyone — it is very scary for anyone who works in the intelligence community,” Mr. Tye said.

[Amyishere]

7. it'sGordon

[canetoad]

8. Watching Jackie Speier on Rachel

As I write. She didn't hesitate for a moment in calling the WB a 'he'.

Her words:

"I can describe that complaint as nothing short of explosive. It is so much more than the summary of the telephone call that has been presented by the White House as evidence, and I'm not even in a position to say that was, at all, even involved in the complaint until it is actually declassified. But I can tell you that I was stunned by the breadth of the complaint and the details with which the whistleblower expressed HIS concerns."

[orleans]

9. that caught my attention too

all day everyone has been careful to say he-or-she

[Ilsa]

16. I noted that as well. I think it's Coates. nt

[Funtatlaguy]

11. Tiffany. Guess Daddy won't ignore me now.

[lindysalsagal]

14. Would be funny if it weren't so appallingly horrifying.

No one asks to be born of frump and Ivana....