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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNunes Aide Is Leaking the Ukraine Whistleblower's Name, Sources Say
Derek Harvey, a former intelligence analyst, has also been spreading disinformation about an aide to Adam Schiff.Spencer Ackerman
Sam Brodey
Adam Rawnsley
Published 10.28.19 8:01PM ET
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 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 testified.
Exposing the identity of the whistleblower and attacking our client would do nothing to undercut the validity of the complaints allegations, said Mark Zaid, one of the whistleblowers attorneys. What it would do, however, is put that individual and their family at risk of harm. Perhaps more important, it would deter future whistleblowers from coming forward in subsequent administrations, Democratic or Republican. Zaid has represented The Daily Beast in freedom-of-information lawsuits against the federal government.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/devin-nunes-aide-is-leaking-the-ukraine-whistleblowers-name-sources-say
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I'm starting to believe they actually want to see him or her dead. Goddamned traitors.
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Nunes Aide Is Leaking the Ukraine Whistleblower's Name, Sources Say (Original Post)
catbyte
Oct 2019
OP
He'd find a way to TRY to sabotage. He's too stupid to actually pull it off
StarfishSaver
Oct 2019
#5
With any luck, he'll be standing on the tracks as it flies down the rails.
Haggis for Breakfast
Oct 2019
#8
They need to get this individual into a WITSEC program immediately.
Haggis for Breakfast
Oct 2019
#9
dem4decades
(11,306 posts)1. They are scum.
SMC22307
(8,090 posts)2. This Harvey guy sounds like a real POS...
Controversial White House Aide Is Now Working For Devin Nunes
https://www.thedailybeast.com/controversial-white-house-aide-is-now-working-for-devin-nunes
It's impossible to keep up with all of them.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/controversial-white-house-aide-is-now-working-for-devin-nunes
It's impossible to keep up with all of them.
Karadeniz
(22,583 posts)3. I'm sure we've all known that Nunes would find a way to sabotage.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)5. He'd find a way to TRY to sabotage. He's too stupid to actually pull it off
This train's rolling and there's nothing Nunes can do about it.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)8. With any luck, he'll be standing on the tracks as it flies down the rails.
Poiuyt
(18,130 posts)4. This is about revenge on the current whistleblower and intimidation of any
possible whistleblower in the future. The fascists in the House will ensure that this will not end well.
barbtries
(28,811 posts)6. isn't that a crime?
nt
Thekaspervote
(32,803 posts)7. You are so right!! Dead, in Russia prison, dropped out a 2nd story window
The depth of the corruption is mind blowing
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)9. They need to get this individual into a WITSEC program immediately.
Before some stupid republican paints a bulls-eye on their back.
dhol82
(9,353 posts)10. Never forget Valerie Plame!
CanonRay
(14,119 posts)11. Can you quite grasp the depth of slime
that would serve as an aid to Nunes?
SunSeeker
(51,740 posts)12. Fucking traitor!
PatrickforO
(14,593 posts)13. Yeah, and tonight on Lawrence O'Donnell, he showed a clip of
Laura Ingraham lying about how the fellow who is going to testify tomorrow is some kind of traitor.
In the end all these dirtbags will be seen for what they really are - how corrupt, dirty and indecent.
Turbineguy
(37,372 posts)14. How low would somebody have to be
to want to work for Nunes.
What level of self-loathing would that take?
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,123 posts)15. Impeach Nunes too!!
Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!