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You will one day have your chance to smear the whistle blower from coast to coast on TV and subject them to your towering rage but not yet. This person is allegedly an intelligence officer with a top security clearance. They are certainly clean enough to work the White House and have been judged to be credible by a Trump appointee and are entitled to protection as yet.There's this thing called "character assassination". You cannot deny that an army of right wing operatives would dig deep into this persons life looking for anything to discredit them. This person and their family do not deserve to be raked over the coals for no other reason than for the right to cloud the issue and intimidate a witness.Saying, for example, "I am going to kill the whistleblower" is still a death threat. Glad I could clear that up for you.
Of course, but we were told the person could testify from a remote location due to the fear for his life (remember the Kavanaugh Hearing and the same M.O?). So, if someone had the means to do harm to someone, how would they do it? Just randomly pick some unfortunate guy in D.C and do something and hope he (or she) is the Whistleblower? Is the Whistleblower hiding in some bunker somewhere?
The assumption is that he would be in harm at his home not at work unless a co-worker lost his shyte. If nobody knows who he is, who would the threat be addressed to, and/or carried out?
Well, without scrutiny you are in fact supporting the very issue you are concerned about, but, this is an attack on a duly elected President! He cannot defend himself, people cannot ask questions and motivations because, well, the secret accuser must remain so?
In effect, the President, his supporters and the ability of his government to do their job for the people is impaired and harmed by what is, at this point, a groundless accusation.
In politics or in a courtroom, we can't operate on the "Honor System" where any allegation is accepted as fact. He needs to come out and stand by his allegation in the open. Of course he will be scrutinized, it's politics and he could simply be a political plant or hyper partisan. Just as in the Kavanaugh Hearing, motivate will be and should be flushed out.