There has been a ridiculous song and dance game played in regards to the identity of the so-called whistleblower. It is pretty common knowledge here inside the beltway that the whistleblower is a partisan CIA guy named Eric Ciaramella. He played butt remora to Joe Biden and some other Democrat heavyweights, he was a favorite of John Brennan who groomed him (take that any way you want) for upper management in CIA, he was main assistant to H. R. McMaster, and he was booted from NSC over suspicion that he was leaking stuff. Literally every political reporter in DC knows he is the whistleblower and they know it because there is no way to keep a nice juicy tidbit of information like this secret for very long when you can trade it to a reporter for something of value. But, to sell papers and get clicks, the political media can’t reveal what they know. What they want is this drama over President Trump and a lot of folks on the right wanting to reveal who this guy is and the fulminations of Adam Schiff and his lackeys who were actually instrumental in revealing his identity in the first place. The attorneys for the whistleblower are playing right along with this kabuki by making nonsensical claims that the whistleblower was entitled to anonymity (that is just silly) and that by printing his name, outlets became liable for any misfortune coming the way of Mr. Ciaramella (apparently his attorney was sick the day they covered the First Amendment in law school).

Today Donald Trump, Jr. took the bull by the horns and just named the whistleblower.

Because of course he did!!!
Alleged ‘Whistleblower’ Eric Ciaramella Worked Closely with Anti-Trump Dossier Hoaxer https://t.co/v5kDe0X62u

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 6, 2019

Good for him.

The reaction has been hilarious. Like this:

2. “The outrage on this is BS. And those pretending that I would coordinate with The White House to send out a Breitbart link haven’t been watching my feed for a long time," Don Jr tells me via text-message in response to questions about his tweet.

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) November 6, 2019

4. Don Jr adds to what he told me re his tweet https://t.co/yFw5b74NaX

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) November 6, 2019

5. Drudge has been tougher on Trump world lately (see this thread)

Ryan, who is one of the most pro-Trump conservative writers, points out Drudge linked to a story about the whistleblower's identity last week

True. But Drudge isn't the president's sonhttps://t.co/S8rnJV1Q0C

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) November 6, 2019

PS: Maybe Real Clear Politics & others wouldn’t have been able to ID the alleged whistleblower if the NY Times didn’t out that he was a CIA official detailed to the WH? The media is full of shit with their faux outrage over me tweeting something already in the public domain! https://t.co/pJuO724eTe

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 6, 2019

The urge to publish this guy’s name is getting to a breaking point in the media. They tripped over themselves covering the DJT, Jr. tweet

The fact is that whistleblowers are entitled to protection against employment discrimination by their own agency. They don’t get anonymity. They don’t get an Immunity Idol. In this particular case, where there is no identifiable crime and where the impetus for filing the complaint seems to have been a combination of partisan animus and disagreement with the foreign policy of the United States, the whistleblower’s motives are fair game for examination.

Sooner or later this clown will be officially revealed. The fact that several news outlets covered DJT, Jr.’s tweet and carried the lame “no comment” from the whistleblower’s attorney tells you 100% what you need to know about his identity.