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Nunes Aide Is Leaking the Ukraine Whistleblowers Name, Sources Say
Derek Harvey, a former intelligence analyst, has also been spreading disinformation about an aide to Adam Schiff.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/devin-nunes-aide-is-leaking-the-ukraine-whistleblowers-name-sources-say?ref=scroll
A top aide to Rep. Devin Nunes has been providing conservative politicians and journalists with informationand misinformationabout the anonymous whistleblower who triggered the biggest crisis of Donald Trumps presidency, two knowledgeable sources tell The Daily Beast.
Derek Harvey, who works for Nunes, the ranking Republican on the House intelligence committee, has provided notes for House Republicans identifying the whistleblowers name ahead of the high-profile depositions of Trump administration appointees and civil servants in the impeachment inquiry. The purpose of the notes, one source said, is to get the whistleblowers name into the record of the proceedings, which committee chairman Adam Schiff has pledged to eventually release. In other words: its an attempt to out the anonymous official who helped trigger the impeachment inquiry.
On Saturday, The Washington Post reported that GOP lawmakers and staffers have repeatedly used a name purporting to be that of the whistleblower during the depositions. The paper named Harvey as driving lines of questioning Democrats saw as attempting to determine the political loyalties of witnesses before the inquiry. A former official told the Post that Harvey was passing notes [to GOP lawmakers] the entire time ex-NSC Russia staffer Fiona Hill was testifying.
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The whistleblower is not Harveys only target. Another is a staffer for the House intelligence committee Democrats whom The Daily Beast has agreed not to name due to concerns about reprisals against the staffer. Harvey, both sources said, has spread a false story alleging that the whistleblower contacted the staffer ahead of raising internal alarm about President Trumps July 25 phone call attempting to get a favor from Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky to damage Trumps rival Joe Biden. In right-wing circles, contact with Schiff is meant to discredit the whistleblower as partisan.
The eagerness of Republicans to go after the intelligence committee staffer so alarmed Democrats that they raised the issue with GOP leadership, according to a senior official on the intelligence committee.
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dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)crickets
(25,987 posts)asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)this Harvey guy has the name of the whistleblower, the orange one would have already named him/her.
Can't disprove the facts..so, shoot the messenger..