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Showing Original Post only (View all)'Seven whistleblowers' And a story that -- if true -- could be deadly for Jared Kushner [View all]
https://spectator.us/seven-whistleblowers-jared-kushner-bin-salman/amp/ Some we know about already. Theres the original whistleblower, the CIA officer at the White House who first reported Trumps call to the Ukrainian president. Republicans are now pushing to unmask him, though his name is already all over the internet. He is, supposedly, a 33-year-old graduate of Yale, a registered Democrat who had worked for both Joe Biden and John Brennan. These facts, so helpful to the White House, are in a dossier circulated on Capitol Hill by the presidents allies. Theres also Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the senior Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, who came to the US from Ukraine to Little Odessa in Brooklyn as a child aged three. He arrived to give evidence to the House Intelligence Committee wearing his dark blue Army dress uniform and military ribbons. He said that the White House transcript of the call between Trump and Ukraines president had important gaps and that his attempts to include crucial words and phrases had been rebuffed. I am a patriot and it is my sacred duty and honor to advance and defend our country irrespective of party or politics. And theres Tim Morrison, the NSCs director for European and Russian Affairs, who was one of the small group to have listened to the call. He said that Trumps ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, told him that Ukraine wouldnt get US arms unless it investigated Biden.
Thats three whistleblowers. What about the other four? Cockburns source says that at least one is nothing to do with Ukraine but instead was reporting a call between Trump and the Saudi ruler, Mohammed bin Salman. Specifically, the whistleblower is said to have concerns about what was said on the call about the presidents son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner. Kushner himself is known to have a very close relationship with MBS. Cockburn has previously written that Kushner may have been what Cosmo would call an oversharer when it came to MBS. Unfortunately, its claimed that what he was sharing was American secrets: information Kushner had requested from the CIA would (allegedly) be echoed back in US intercepts of calls between members of the Saudi royal family. Once source said this was Kushner lost his intelligence clearances for a while.
According to Cockburns source about the seven whistleblowers, theres more. It is that Kushner (allegedly) gave the green light to MBS to arrest the dissident journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, who was later murdered and dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. A second source tells Cockburn that this is true and adds a crucial twist to the story. This source claims that Turkish intelligence obtained an intercept of the call between Kushner and MBS. And President Erdogan used it to get Trump to roll over and pull American troops out of northern Syria before the Turks invaded. Cockburn hears that investigators for the House Intelligence Committee know this whole tale and the identities of some of the people telling it. Whether any of is true is another matter but Adam Schiff certainly seems to be smiling a lot these days.
Thats three whistleblowers. What about the other four? Cockburns source says that at least one is nothing to do with Ukraine but instead was reporting a call between Trump and the Saudi ruler, Mohammed bin Salman. Specifically, the whistleblower is said to have concerns about what was said on the call about the presidents son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner. Kushner himself is known to have a very close relationship with MBS. Cockburn has previously written that Kushner may have been what Cosmo would call an oversharer when it came to MBS. Unfortunately, its claimed that what he was sharing was American secrets: information Kushner had requested from the CIA would (allegedly) be echoed back in US intercepts of calls between members of the Saudi royal family. Once source said this was Kushner lost his intelligence clearances for a while.
According to Cockburns source about the seven whistleblowers, theres more. It is that Kushner (allegedly) gave the green light to MBS to arrest the dissident journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, who was later murdered and dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. A second source tells Cockburn that this is true and adds a crucial twist to the story. This source claims that Turkish intelligence obtained an intercept of the call between Kushner and MBS. And President Erdogan used it to get Trump to roll over and pull American troops out of northern Syria before the Turks invaded. Cockburn hears that investigators for the House Intelligence Committee know this whole tale and the identities of some of the people telling it. Whether any of is true is another matter but Adam Schiff certainly seems to be smiling a lot these days.
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'Seven whistleblowers' And a story that -- if true -- could be deadly for Jared Kushner [View all]
Roland99
Nov 2019
OP
I hope they are both branding license plates in some federal correctional institute, the big house.
YOHABLO
Nov 2019
#57
I think so, too. Making a run for it some dark night in an unmarked helicopter
calimary
Nov 2019
#56
Spectator is UK but a conservative site praised it recently which makes this all the more interestin
Roland99
Nov 2019
#18
Interesting, yes, but without more dots to connect, this is nothing but a big juicy....
Brother Buzz
Nov 2019
#25
WOW. This might be the biggest thing that has happened. Hope it can all be proven.
OverBurn
Nov 2019
#14
Trump sent Barr on a world wide mission to take down the US Intelligence Community
Jarqui
Nov 2019
#15
So if it is true, do you think MBS is going to throw Jared under the bus or vice versa?
politicaljunkie41910
Nov 2019
#35
I'm in awe of the amount of information and intelligent discussion that happens on DU. So many
Pepsidog
Nov 2019
#17
These people killed someone because of their f**king mouths. There is a reason why...
SWBTATTReg
Nov 2019
#22
And funny isn't it that Kushner was somehow bailed out of the billion dollar debt...
brush
Nov 2019
#32
Good, very good point. I didn't think of this, but it is very curious! A good catch on your part!
SWBTATTReg
Nov 2019
#82
these motherfuckers need to go asap. we need to show with protests an activism that ANYone
certainot
Nov 2019
#23
Jared did a similar thing before. He gave MBS intelligence on dissident royal family members.
SunSeeker
Nov 2019
#24
holy shit... if any of that is even remotely true, kushner is gonig down as an accessory to murder
Takket
Nov 2019
#38
This is terrible and if they have this info then it's the most damning so far nt
Quixote1818
Nov 2019
#55
Horrific, but not surprising. I'd heard much of the Kushner stuff before, but
liberalla
Nov 2019
#60
So, tRump blackmailed by Turkey re tRump gang crimes re Kashoggi. On top of extorting Ukraine. . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2019
#62