He Was Not a Whistleblower

… understanding who he actually was.

Eric Ciaramella was not some random staffer. He was an anti-Trump operative who had already been identified years earlier as a leaker and saboteur. He had been in contact with Adam Schiff’s office, where a close friend of his had just been hired. Most importantly, he was personally involved in the events surrounding the removal of the Ukrainian prosecutor, the thing President Trump wanted examined, and which formed the basis of the impeachment itself.

He was not a whistleblower but a deeply compromised actor, with a strong incentive to cover up his own role in the removal of the prosecutor. Under normal circumstances, even if none of us had ever found out Ciaramella’s name, it would have been the responsibility of the Inspector General to act as a neutral gatekeeper and stop a fraudulent complaint from advancing. But as the newly released documents prove, that safeguard failed because the Inspector General was part of the plot.

With internal checks compromised, public scrutiny became the last line of defense. Unfortunately, that scrutiny was shut down by coordinated media blackout, which ensured the truth never reached the public. That cover up cleared the path for a fundamentally fraudulent scheme to take hold, turning a chain of lies into an impeachment that should never have happened.

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