The anonymous U.S. intelligence official accusing President Trump of improperly pressuring Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden is represented by two lawyers who run a group that offers financial help to fired whistleblowers.
Whistleblower Aid was founded by veteran national security defense attorney Mark Zaid and John Tye, a whistleblower who worked to promote internet freedom at the State Department before warning of mass surveillance during the Obama administration.
Zaid and Bakaj represent the official who claimed whistleblower status in raising the case of the Ukraine call.
"Tye told the Washington Examiner that the official who exposed the content of the Ukrainian call to the intelligence community's inspector general did not connect with their attorneys through Whistleblower Aid's encrypted communications platform. Asked whether the organization was"providing or standing ready to provide assistance" to the official, he replied, 'Yes, absolutely.
Bakaj, the official's lead attorney, is a himself a former intelligence community whistleblower.
"Bakaj is a respected attorney who left the CIA in 2014 after facing professional retaliation for trying to work with intelligence community whistleblowers," said Jesselyn Radack, an attorney who has represented whistleblowers Edward Snowden, Thomas Drake, and John Kiriakou.
Radack works at ExposeFacts, a different group that supports whistleblowers but does not pay the rent or mortgages of clients because of potential ethical issues.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/ukraine-whistleblowers-lawyers-work-for-group-that-offers-to-pay-officials-who-leak-against-trump
Whistleblower Aid was founded by veteran national security defense attorney Mark Zaid and John Tye, a whistleblower who worked to promote internet freedom at the State Department before warning of mass surveillance during the Obama administration.
Zaid and Bakaj represent the official who claimed whistleblower status in raising the case of the Ukraine call.
"Tye told the Washington Examiner that the official who exposed the content of the Ukrainian call to the intelligence community's inspector general did not connect with their attorneys through Whistleblower Aid's encrypted communications platform. Asked whether the organization was"providing or standing ready to provide assistance" to the official, he replied, 'Yes, absolutely.
Bakaj, the official's lead attorney, is a himself a former intelligence community whistleblower.
"Bakaj is a respected attorney who left the CIA in 2014 after facing professional retaliation for trying to work with intelligence community whistleblowers," said Jesselyn Radack, an attorney who has represented whistleblowers Edward Snowden, Thomas Drake, and John Kiriakou.
Radack works at ExposeFacts, a different group that supports whistleblowers but does not pay the rent or mortgages of clients because of potential ethical issues.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/ukraine-whistleblowers-lawyers-work-for-group-that-offers-to-pay-officials-who-leak-against-trump
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