Whistleblower painstakingly gathered material and almost single-handedly set impeachment in motion

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/whistleblower-painstakingly-gathered-material-and-almost-single-handedly-set-impeachment-in-motion/2019/09/26/bec9608c-e06e-11e9-be96-6adb81821e90_story.html

Whistleblower painstakingly gathered material and almost single-handedly set impeachment in motion
By Greg Miller
September 26 at 8:32 PM

The whistleblower’s identity remains obscured, the details of his work for the CIA cloaked in secrecy. But the document he delivered reveals almost as much about the investigative mission he carried out in stealth as it does about the alleged abuses of power by the president.

From the moment he learned about President Trump’s attempts to extract political dirt on former vice president Joe Biden from the newly elected leader of Ukraine on July 25, the CIA officer behind the whistleblower report moved swiftly behind the scenes to assemble material from at least a half-dozen highly placed — and equally dismayed — U.S. officials.

He wove their accounts with other painstakingly gathered material on everything from the intervention of Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani in the U.S.-Ukraine relationship to alleged efforts by American diplomats sent to Kiev and attorneys in the Office of the White House Counsel to contain or suppress the accruing damage.

On Aug. 12, he delivered his document — a nine-page version of which was made public on Thursday — to the intelligence community’s inspector general, triggering an almost immediate clash between the executive branch and Congress.

Six weeks later, the whistleblower has by some measures managed to exceed what former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III accomplished in two years of investigating Trump: producing a file so concerning and factually sound that it has almost single-handedly set in motion the gears of impeachment.

[SunSeeker]

1. A true hero. nt

[Talitha]

2. A true Patriot, too.

[Corgigal]

3. Whoever you are brave human.

For doing the right thing.

[Skittles]

4. no doubt because they were tired of waiting on action from anyone else

[Tarheel_Dem]

5. I hope that if the media learns of this person's identity, they'll have the good sense and restraint

to guard it with their lives. Wouldn't want him/her to wind up mysteriously disappeared like Jeffrey Epstein.

[ancianita]

6. Lawyers worked to move this hero forward, in spite of the DNI and WH counsel. No one works alone.

Wasn't the whistleblower's work supported by Coats and the CIA? That's the rumor.

The point of "almost single-handedly" is taken, and the likelihood is that s/he couldn't have done all this alone.

Imo, we owe them all much gratitude.

And I'm all for designating September 26 as National Whistleblower Day.

[renate]

7. This person deserves to be compared with Washington and Lincoln

What a brave patriot. He or she may well have halted our slide into a dictatorship and global irrelevance and derision.

Depending on how you define saving our country... he or she may have saved our country, especially if his/her actions mean Trump won’t serve a second term. What a hero.

[Duppers]

8. 🇺🇸😍👍👍

Thank you, sir, for saving our country.

[malaise]

9. ITTMF

RFN!