Who Is The Trump Whistleblower? 4 Facts About Official Who Revealed Ukraine Phone Call

An officer or analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been tagged as the author of the whistleblower complaint at the center of a Congressional investigation that might impeach president Donald Trump.

This person, a man, was to have worked at the White House but has since returned to the CIA due to the furor over his explosive whistleblower complaint, said The New York Times.

That an intelligence operative might have been the whistleblower was hinted at by former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper who told CNN the report was the best written and best researched report of its kind he's ever read, and reflected the work of a seasoned intelligence professional.

Media reports revealed the CIA officer spoke with “a half dozen U.S. officials” over a four-month period. The information from these people and the events they described triggered the CIA officer's concern and his filing of the whistleblower report.

“I have received information from multiple U.S. government officials that the president of the United States is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election,” said the complaint.

“This interference includes, among other things, pressuring a foreign country to investigate one of the president’s main domestic political rivals.”

The CIA officer filed his whistleblower report on Aug. 12. In summary, the complaint alleges Trump pressured Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter, in a phone call on July 25 that lasted 30 minutes.

The whistleblower report and a memo documenting the July 25 phone call between Trump and Zelensky are now the basis of an impeachment inquiry launched Tuesday by House Democrats.

Apart from these, here are four other facts about this intriguing claim abuse of presidential power.

• The whistleblower didn’t personally listen in on the July 25 phone call between Trump and Zelensky. He learned of the phone call and its content after talking to a number of White House and other officials.
• The White House has not asked acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire to determine and reveal the whistleblower's identity.
• The whistleblower will likely meet with lawmakers from the House, according to CNN. The closed door meeting, however, depends on Andrew Bakaj (the whistleblower's lawyer)receiving security clearance from Maguire to attend the classified discussion.
• The whistleblower might be biased against Trump, according to a memo released Wednesday by the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) of the Department of Justice. OLC, however, concluded the complaint was credible.