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Why Are We Calling Ukraine Story Leaker A Whistleblower?
hotair ^ | 09/23/19

Posted on 09/23/2019 8:29:16 AM PDT by Liberty7732

he question begs to be asked: Why is the person who came forward with a story about President Trump and a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky still being referred to as a whistleblower?

Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, Michael Atkinson, is a Trump appointee. Allegedly he found a reason to go forward with a complaint lodged against President Trump stemming from a conversation with Zelensky in July. The anonymous “whistleblower,” as it turns out, is not, in fact, a whistleblower. The complainant is essentially a gossipmonger. The person admits no direct knowledge of the conversation. Doesn’t that seem to be an important fact in this whole story?

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KEYWORDS: democrats; didyousearch; trump; ukraine; whistleblower
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1 posted on 09/23/2019 8:29:16 AM PDT by Liberty7732
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To: Liberty7732

“Whistleblower” is being used by the leftists...Not by conservatives...

Conservatives use the word “fake” instead....


2 posted on 09/23/2019 8:31:29 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Liberty7732

Just to try to make it sound more serious and more damaging for Trump.

Since there is nothing real against him, they try to make non-issues sound like something.

That’s the swamp.


3 posted on 09/23/2019 8:32:32 AM PDT by Innovative
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To: Liberty7732
There probably isn't even a fake Whistleblower. IMHO the Rats concocted the whole scheme as they went along. It's their M.O., as in Russian Dossiergate, Kavanaugh accusations, Comey's remembered "memos to self," etc.
4 posted on 09/23/2019 8:36:42 AM PDT by truthkeeper (All Trump Has Going for Him is the Votes)
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To: Liberty7732

That’s easy. Because everything Donald Trump does as President is a crime. Therefore anyone who leaks information about anything he does is a whistleblower.

Anything he does is a crime by definition because the fact that he’s President is itself a crime.

He committed a serious crime by beating Hillary Clinton in 2016. That’s the original crime, and everything since that crime is itself a crime.


5 posted on 09/23/2019 8:37:33 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Liberty7732

Fake gossip inspires fake news.


6 posted on 09/23/2019 8:38:38 AM PDT by Theophilous Meatyard III
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The president’s conversation with a foreign leader does not seem to fall under this whistleblower definition.

More like an insider spying on the president——maybe bugging the president’s phone hoping to get dirt on the president.

Greggarrett.com

3. Article II of the Constitution gives the president sweeping power to conduct foreign affairs, negotiate with leaders of other nations, make demands or offer promises. The Constitution does not grant the power of review, approval or disapproval to spies or other unelected officials in the executive branch.

4. The ICWPA law defines the parameters of an “urgent concern” complaint as an abuse or violation of law “relating to the funding, administration, or operations of an intelligence activity involving classified information, but does not include differences of opinions concerning public policy matters.”


7 posted on 09/23/2019 8:39:23 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Liberty7732

Good question. Whistleblowers have legal protection; leakers are in legal jeopardy.


8 posted on 09/23/2019 8:39:46 AM PDT by odawg
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To: Liberty7732

Leakers usually go to the press. This person went to the IG.


9 posted on 09/23/2019 8:39:47 AM PDT by semimojo
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To: Liberty7732; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; ...
For that matter, why are we still caling him or her a leaker, when in reality, he or she is just a liar?
A Whistleblower?
10 posted on 09/23/2019 8:41:37 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Liberty7732

Was Monica Lewinski called a Billyblower?

Was Horizontal Harris called a Willieblower?


11 posted on 09/23/2019 8:43:53 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: SunkenCiv

IMHO it just as easily be a set up by the POTUS to get the Biden mess out in the open thus destroying him and all in the RAT party who jump on the impeach Trump bandwagon. Do not underestimate the chess skills of DJT! Political Judo?


12 posted on 09/23/2019 8:47:37 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: Liberty7732

Because it has the connotation that something illegal or against the rules was being done.


13 posted on 09/23/2019 8:48:10 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Everyone who favors socialism plans on the government taking other people's money, not theirs.)
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To: Liberty7732

In case anyone missed it, here is CNN intelligence analyst and Trump-basher Phil Mudd giving a full-throated defense of President Trump. Fredo Cuomo seems stunned =>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS_ybCgkg4w

Mudd interview starts about the 2 minute mark.


14 posted on 09/23/2019 8:49:35 AM PDT by Ken H (2019 => The House of Representin')
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To: Liberty7732
The Whistleblower had no first hand knowledge.

Someone passed on the information to him and it got leaked.

A perfect match to Copmey's MO...pass off to a friend and volia....it was in the news.

I heard yesterday that the whistleblower news went to the EXACT same media person as Comey's "leak".......which he got away with.

15 posted on 09/23/2019 8:52:29 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: semimojo

It appears to me this person did both


16 posted on 09/23/2019 8:52:37 AM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: semimojo

Right....with Hearsay information.


17 posted on 09/23/2019 8:53:44 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Don Corleone
Judo? Not surprising the Ju's are involved. /rimshot

18 posted on 09/23/2019 9:12:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Liberty7732

Why Are We Calling Ukraine Story Leaker A Whistleblower?

Because leftists are good at framing a story to their advantage.


19 posted on 09/23/2019 9:16:52 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Liberty7732

Whistleblowers, like US intelligence assets (spies), may be held anonymous to protect their identities. Isn’t that convenient?


20 posted on 09/23/2019 9:29:11 AM PDT by Tallguy (Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!)
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