An attorney forced out of the CIA's watchdog office is representing the Trump whistleblower
Source: Yahoo News
An attorney who left the CIA in 2014 after facing professional retaliation for trying to work with intelligence community whistleblowers is now representing the U.S. official who reportedly filed a complaint alleging wrongdoing by President Trump.
Andrew Bakaj, a national security attorney working for Compass Rose Legal Group, a Washington national security law firm, has taken on the still unidentified whistleblower as his newest client, according to information first reported by the New York Times and confirmed by Yahoo News.
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While little is known about the anonymous official who made the allegation, Bakaj himself became a whistleblower in 2014, a fact revealed in a recent story by Yahoo News. Bakaj had reported reported his colleagues concerns about evidence tampering within the CIA watchdog office to the Intelligence Community Inspector General. That office, after reviewing the concerns, immediately referred them to the FBI.
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DeminPennswoods
(15,246 posts)end up telling everyone what he did. He might not come right out and say it, but he'll make plenty of
"denial" tweets in the next few that will spell out everything.
PhoenixDem
(581 posts)Trump is so transparent when he tweets
Chemisse
(30,793 posts)He already said he wasn't stupid enough to say things in a phone call where others could hear him. (Basically admitting to wrongdoing).
DeminPennswoods
(15,246 posts)He can't keep his mouth shut. His massive ego and narcissism demand that he tell "the world" just how smart an operator he (thinks he) is.
Yeah, right now he's obstructing maximally and generating lawsuits galore to tie things up in court, but, like Nixon, eventually everything will come out. Unlike Nixon, he won't be getting a pardon from anyone in a position to grant one once it does.
Leghorn21
(13,520 posts)smooths the path for our whistleblower, and that a good outcome is in the offing here because holy fucking hell how much more foul play can we take here, NOT MUCH
Thanks for the info, f, I knew he was former CIA, but not a wb himself -
Skittles
(152,967 posts)yes INDEED
mwooldri
(10,291 posts)If the proper channels don't work then the attorney can drip feed appropriate information to the media as necessary, while protecting the whistleblower via client attorney privilege.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)who understands the field. Good!!!
pangaia
(24,324 posts)going right in the foreseeable future, like this development.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)oopps I just read a post about the DOJ preparing lawsuits or whatever to 'destroy' the 2020 elections if trump 'loses.' eliminate the constitution... etyc etc