Great thread and history timeline on Eric Ciaramella.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1194386753148407810.html

Rising serpent @rising_serpent

1. Ciaramella, a career CIA analyst, was Ukraine director on the NSC toward the end of the Obama administration. He worked under both Joe Biden and John Brennan reporting directly to Susan Rice through Charles Kupchan who had extensive ties with Clinton acolyte Sydney Blumenthal.

2. Ciaramella stayed at the NSC during the first few months of the Trump administration as acting senior director for European and Russian affairs and then special assistant to Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, Trump's national security adviser, until he left White House in summer 2017.

3. Ciaramella also worked extensively with DNC operative Alexandra Chalupa, who led the DNC effort to fabricate links between Trump and Russia. Chalupa “met top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in DC in an effort to expose ties between Paul Manafort and Russia.”

4. Ciaramella invited Chalupa to meetings & events at the Obama White House with Ukrainian lobbyists seeking aid from Obama. Chuck Grassley: "Chalupa’s actions show she was simultaneously working on behalf of Ukraine, and on behalf of the DNC and Clinton campaign"

5. Remarkably, despite his clear connections to Susan Rice and John Brennan, he was brought back into the inner circle of the Trump NSC by HR McMaster. McMaster appointed him to be his personal aide.

6. Ciarmella was fired in June of 2017 after being directly implicated in a series of serious national security leaks from the White House calculated to be damaging to President Trump.

7. Recall that Ciaramella’s title at the White House was NSC Director for Ukraine.
How appropriate then that the same position is now held by Alexander Vindman, who also leaked classified information about Trump's call with a foreign head to a number of people.
What are the odds?

8. Ciaramella and Vindman coordinated the entire whistleblower affair with Schiff and his staff in violation of the “whistleblower” statute. Ciaramella coordinated his complaint with Schiff committee staffers Abigail Grace and Sean Misko.

9. In coincidences typical only in Washington DC, Ciaramella worked with both Grace and Misko in the NSC at the Obama White House.
As if by magic, Misko and Grace joined Schiff’s committee in early August of 2019, just in time to coordinate the “whistleblower” complaint.

10. Continuing the train of miraculous coincidences, right after Misko and Grace joined Schiff in August, ICIG Atkinson changed rules for whistleblower complaints to allow second-hand testimony in September and backdated changes to allow the Ciaramella complaint filed in August.

11. Recall that it was this very ICIG Atkinson who labeled the whistleblower complaint “credible” & “urgent” while he simultaneously backdated the change in regulations to allow the complaint to be filed.
What are the odds that Ciaramella's background was not known to the ICIG?

12. "The person that I always felt extremely uncomfortable around was Ciaramella. He was one of the few guys around who seemed to know where the filing cabinets were, so to speak,” one former official told the Washington Examiner.
washingtonexaminer.com/news/saw-every…

13. When the issue of Ukraine was brought up at a policy meeting, Ciaramella mentioned aid to Ukraine. He became visibly upset, the official recounted, when he was told that Trump would review Ukraine policy and that it would likely not be the same as President Barack Obama’s.

14. "He was a principal suspect in the leak of the first transcripts that came out on Mexico and Australia [August 2017]. We couldn't get McMaster to run the tapes and find out who it was.
"I was stunned to find out that McMaster got him to be his special assistant"

15. Ciaramella stayed on as McMaster's aide until he left the NSC. McMaster, who was criticized for not preventing leaks from the NSC, left his post in April 2018.

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