Posted on 09/24/2019 9:16:00 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
The anonymous U.S. intelligence official accusing President Trump of improperly pressuring Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden is represented by two lawyers who run a group that offers financial help to fired whistleblowers.
Whistleblower Aid was launched in September 2017 — eight months after Trump's inauguration — with an advertising blitz that involved mobile billboards being driven close to the White House, Congress, outside the Pentagon, and around the headquarters of the CIA and National Security Agency.
The group’s pledge of support, in addition to free legal representation including rent and mortgage assistance, media coaching, and doctor’s bills and counseling, is controversial among lawyers.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
I smell Soros.
—Whistleblower Aid describes itself as “a pioneering, non-profit law firm that helps patriotic government employees and brave, private-sector workers report and publicize their concerns” with legal advice that “is confidential, but never ideological or partisan.” Asked in 2017 about the timing of the group’s launch, Tye said, “We want to advise people what to do, whether it’s going to Congress, or an inspector general or Robert Mueller,” referring to the special counsel handling the Russia investigation.
He added, “This is not a partisan effort. At the same time, yes, the rule of law starts with the office of the president. Like many other people, we are definitely concerned about things that are happening in the administration. The decision to fire [FBI Director] James Comey. The lack of transparency. A lot of people have questions about whether this administration respects the rule of law.”—
not partisan!
also mentions:
-An article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported a recent uptick in informants for the group, which represented Simon Edelman, an Energy Department whistleblower who says he was fired after leaking to the press-
He Leaked a Photo of Rick Perry Hugging a Coal Executive
NYT - 17 Jan 2018
As a photographer for the Department of Energy, Simon Edelman regularly attended meetings with Secretary Rick Perry and snapped pictures...
Rick Perry hugged a coal baron. This photographer got the picture. Then he was placed on leave.
WaPo - 17 Jan 2018
5 Apr 2018: Archive: New Yorker: A Whistle-Blower Alleges Corruption in Rick Perry’s Department of Energy
By Carolyn Kormann
On March 29, 2017, Robert Murray, the founder and owner of one of the country’s largest coal companies, was ushered into a conference room at the Department of Energy’s headquarters, in Washington, D.C., for a meeting with Secretary Rick Perry. When Perry arrived, a few moments later, he immediately gave Murray a hug. To Simon Edelman, the Department’s chief creative officer, who was on hand to photograph the event, the greeting came as a surprise. At the time, Edelman did not know that Murray’s political-action committee and employees had donated more than a hundred thousand dollars to Perry’s Presidential campaign, in 2012, and almost as much to Donald Trump’s, in 2016. Nevertheless, Edelman told me recently, “this Spidey sense went off.” He captured a photo of the embrace, then lingered for fifteen minutes after the men sat down. “Murray did most of the talking,” he said. At one point, the coal magnate handed Perry a document containing his “Action Plan for reliable and low cost electricity in America and to assist in the survival of our Country’s coal industry.” Edelman snapped a closeup. Afterward, he said, he heard Perry tell Murray, “I think we can help you with this.”...
In late November, not long before FERC was scheduled to vote on Perry’s plan, Edelman shared his photos of the March meeting with reporters from the progressive magazine In These Times and, later, the Washington Post. The photographs were published on December 6th. The next day, Edelman was placed on administrative leave...
https://web.archive.org/web/20190808200311/https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/a-whistle-blower-alleges-corruption-in-rick-perrys-department-of-energy
24 Sept: The Federalist: Attorney For Anti-Trump ‘Whistleblower’ Worked For Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer
by Tristan Justice
Andrew Bakaj, now a managing partner at the Compass Rose Legal Group, interned for Schumer in the spring of 2001 and for Clinton in the fall of the same year, according to Bakaj’s LinkedIn page. More recently, Bakaj has worked as an official in the CIA and Pentagon and specializes in whistleblower and security clearances in his legal practice...
https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/24/attorney-for-anti-trump-whistleblower-worked-for-hillary-clinton-chuck-schumer/
24 Sept: Washingtonian: Meet the Attorneys Representing the Whistleblower Who Helped Launch the Impeachment Inquiry
by Marisa M. Kashino
Bakaj also served at the State Department, and worked for Democratic senators Daniel Moynihan, Charles Schumer, and Hillary Clinton earlier in his career...
Earlier today, House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff said the whistleblower would like to testify before his committee...
https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/09/24/meet-the-attorneys-representing-the-whistleblower-who-helped-launch-the-impeachment-inquiry/
Wikipedia: John Napier Tye is a former official of the U.S. State Department who came forward in 2014 as a whistleblower seeking to publicize certain electronic surveillance practices of the U.S. government under Executive Order 12333...
From 2014 to 2015, Tye was legal director and campaign director of Avaaz, a global civic activist organization...
In September 2017, Tye and lawyer Mark Zaid cofounded Whistleblower Aid, a nonprofit law firm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tye_(whistleblower)
Wikipedia: Mark Zaid
He has appeared as a commentator on CNN and MSNBC...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zaid
I’d like to know how much these ***holes are getting to sell out the American people and their president. Greedy little biatches.
WaPo open access for piece spruiking for funding!
18 Sept 2017: WaPo: Former whistleblower starts legal aid group to guide would-be tipsters
By Carol Morello
Tye, a former State Department whistleblower, and lawyer Mark S. Zaid have formed Whistleblower Aid...
It is not entirely coincidental that Whistleblower Aid is being launched during the presidency of Donald Trump, whose 2016 campaign is under investigation for contacts with Russians.
“We want to advise people what to do, whether it’s going to Congress, or an inspector general or Robert Mueller,” Tye said when asked about the timing, referring to the general counsel handling the investigation.
The firm is seeking donations from foundations and crowdsource funding to cover expenses.
Starting Monday, the start-up will be blitzing Washington to publicize its services with ads on Metro trains. It will have people on street corners handing out branded whistles. And throughout the week, two mobile billboards advertising Whistleblower Aid will spend 10 hours a day circling the White House, the Capitol, the Pentagon, the CIA and the National Security Agency to try to attract clients...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/former-whistleblower-starts-company-to-give-advice-to-would-be-tipsters/2017/09/17/711049e4-e55d-40c5-b71a-50032851a7f4_story.html
set up Whistleblower Aid in Sept 2017 and already after Trump in November 2017:
12 Nov 2017: TallkingPoints: Lawmakers Question Whether Key CIA Nominee Misled Congress
By DEB RIECHMANN
Two former CIA employees are accusing the Trump administration’s choice for CIA chief watchdog of being less than candid when he told Congress he didn’t know about any active whistleblower complaints against him...
John Tye, executive director of Whistleblower Aid, who is representing two of the complainants alleging retaliation by Sharpley and other senior managers, said some discord in the office stemmed from a case several years ago involving kickbacks from contractors...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/lawmakers-question-whether-cia-inspector-general-nominee-lied-to-congress
7 Sept 2018: Trump Wants to Polygraph His Own Staff. That’s Nuts.
By BRADLEY P. MOSS and MARK ZAID
Bradley P. Moss is a partner at the Washington, D.C. Law Office of Mark S. Zaid, P.C...
Mark S. Zaid is the managing partner of the Law Office of Mark S. Zaid, P.C...He is the executive director of the James Madison Project and co-founder of Whistleblower Aid.
The president routinely denounces the ongoing Russia probe led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller as a “witch hunt.” But a broad polygraph screening of the White House would truly be a “witch hunt.”...
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/09/07/polygraph-tests-trump-administration-219740
Lawfare: Bradley P. Moss
Bradley P. Moss is a partner at the Washington, D.C. Law Office of Mark S. Zaid, P.C...
Why the White House Can’t Stop Omarosa Manigault-Newman From Talking
Bradley P. Moss Tue, Aug 14, 2018, 12:19 PM
Can the President Revoke Former Officials’ Security Clearances?
Bradley P. Moss Mon, Jul 23, 2018, 10:12 PM
The three scenarios that might play out if Trump moves against Clapper, Comey, McCabe, Brennan, Rice and Hayden.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/contributors/bmoss
seems Whistleblower Aid had the support of the entire FakeNewsMSM:
19 Mar 2018: Newsweek: Any White House Staffer Who Signed Trump’s NDA Offered Pro Bono Representation From Prominent D.C. Lawyer
By Ryan Sit
Mark Zaid, who co-founded the nonprofit law firm Whistleblower Aid, made the announcement on Twitter Monday. “I would be willing to handle any of these cases pro bono to challenge the NDA under 1st Amendment grounds,” he wrote. “Former employees can only be prevented from disclosing classified info.”
“This is an unconstitutional prohibition on 1st Amendment rights,” Zaid wrote in a subsequent tweet. “My law firm offers to rep pro bono any signatory (or individual legitimately contemplating) of these NDAs.”...
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-white-house-staffers-nda-nondisclosure-agreements-pro-bono-851583
Of course, Soros.
There will be great celebration the day he takes up residence in hades.
If the “whistleblower” took compensation for leaking, I hope he or she is not at the level of federal employee who has to report outside income. Be a real shame to see a fake whistleblower fired over that.
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