Efforts to out the Ukraine whistleblower could have a chilling effect, put U.S. security at risk, experts say
On Oct. 8, Alan Souza, the lead Republican lawyer on the House Intelligence Committee, wrote an email to Mark Zaid, the lawyer representing the person who first anonymously disclosed concerns that President Donald Trump was pressuring Ukraine for his own political gain.
In the email, Souza assured Zaid that the panel “always maintains the confidentiality of the whistleblower,” according to a reference to the email in a Nov. 6 letter to the committee from Zaid’s law firm that is reproduced on its website.
Souza’s message to Zaid was that the committee takes seriously its responsibility to safeguard the identity of people — like the Ukraine whistleblower — who choose to anonymously report alleged wrongdoing through official channels provided for in law.
View the complete November 19 article by John M. Donnelly on The Roll Call website here.