Dozens of whistleblowers who currently or previously worked in the Trump administration are reportedly cooperating in secret with House Democrats investigating the president.
The number of whistleblowers who have come forward to Congress has grown to the “dozens,” a senior House Oversight Committee aide told The Atlantic. That committee is now chaired by Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., who became at least a momentary TV celebrity for his calm, measured manner during Michael Cohen’s Capitol Hill testimony. Longtime committee aides told the Atlantic that the number of whistleblowers who have come forward to the panel have increased dramatically since Trump took office compared to previous administrations.
One whistle-blower, Tricia Newbold, told Cummings’ committee earlier this week that more than two dozen denials of security clearances for officials like Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were overturned by Trump political appointee Carl Kline. After her testimony, Newbold simply went back to her desk at the White House Personnel Security Office, the New York Times reported. Newbold, who has a rare form of dwarfism, previously filed a complaint accusing Kline of retaliating against her by intentionally moving office files to a shelf that was deliberately out of her reach and suspending her for two weeks.
View the complete April 7 article by Igor Derysh of Salon on the AlterNet website here.