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<\/a><\/p>\nby Rob Crilly, Steven Nelson, & David M. Drucker
\nWashington Examiner<\/p>\n
The 2020 Democratic candidate with whom the CIA whistleblower had\u00a0a “professional” tie<\/a>\u00a0is Joe Biden, according to intelligence officers and former White House officials.<\/p>\n Lawyers for the whistleblower said he had worked only “in the executive branch.” The\u00a0Washington Examiner<\/i>\u00a0has established that he is a career CIA analyst who was detailed to the National Security Council at the White House and has since left. On Sept. 26, the\u00a0New York Times<\/i>\u00a0reported that<\/a>\u00a0he was a CIA officer. On Oct. 4, the newspaper\u00a0added that<\/a>\u00a0he “was detailed to the National Security Council at one point.”<\/p>\n Michael Atkinson, the Intelligence Community’s inspector general, told members of Congress that the whistleblower had a “professional tie” to a 2020 Democratic candidate. He had written earlier that while the\u00a0whistleblower’s complaint<\/a>\u00a0was credible, he had shown “some indicia of an arguable political bias … in favor of a rival political candidate.”<\/p>\n A retired CIA officer told\u00a0<\/i>the\u00a0Washington Examiner,<\/i> \u201cFrom everything we know about the whistleblower and his work in the executive branch then, there is absolutely no doubt he would have been working with Biden when he was vice president.”<\/p>\n As an experienced CIA official on the NSC with the deep knowledge of Ukraine that he demonstrated in his complaint, it is probable that the whistleblower briefed Biden and likely that he accompanied him on Air Force Two during at least one of\u00a0the six visits<\/a>\u00a0the 2020 candidate made to the country.<\/p>\n A former Trump administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters, said Biden\u2019s work on foreign affairs brought him into close proximity with the whistleblower either at the CIA or when he was detailed to the White House.<\/p>\n \u201cThis person, after working with Biden, may feel defensive towards him because he feels [Biden] is being falsely attacked. Maybe he is even talking to Biden\u2019s staff,\u201d the former official said. \u201cMaybe it is innocent, maybe not.\u201d<\/p>\n Last month, the whistleblower accused President Trump of abusing his position by asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Biden and his son, Hunter, who sat on the board of a Ukrainian gas company. His complaint is now at the center of a Democrat-led\u00a0impeachment inquiry<\/a>, prompting Trump and his allies to cry foul.<\/p>\n Biden was President Barack Obama\u2019s “point man” on Ukraine, making a half dozen trips there in his eight years as vice president. Those trips involved briefings from senior intelligence officials and NSC officers, some of whom traveled with him to Kyiv and elsewhere.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Whistleblower has ties to one of my DEMOCRAT OPPONENTS,\u201d tweeted Trump, after the “professional” link was\u00a0revealed by the\u00a0Washington Examiner<\/i><\/a>. \u201cWhy does the ICIG allow this scam to continue?\u201d<\/p>\n Trump said Thursday he did\u00a0not know the identity<\/a>\u00a0of the whistleblower.<\/p>\n