In August, our client lawfully filed a detailed complaint that prompted the intelligence community inspector general to conduct a preliminary investigation. ADADBut even as the emerging facts have substantiated our client’s complaint, the president continues to repeatedly ask, “Where’s the whistleblower?” (He did this as recently as Thursday night.) Now Republican leaders in Congress are also focusing their attention on attacking the messenger and demanding public testimony from the whistleblower. Andrew Bakaj crafted the legal and investigative framework protecting intelligence community whistleblowers, and himself reluctantly became a CIA whistleblower. Exposing the identity of the whistleblower and attacking our client would do nothing to undercut the validity of the complaint’s allegations.

Source: Washington Post October 25, 2019 16:09 UTC