That Impeachment Thing....

Oh hey, that makes two of us.

L'état, c'est moi defense is a bold move Cotton.

Rand Paul I guess threw such a temper tantrum that he decided to break the Senate rules and leave the chamber during proceedings to hold a press conference so he could out the whistleblower there. Great job accomplishing nothing. I'm sure he is still trying to figure out a way to get the whistleblowers name entered into the record but it seems like the Chief Justice has a red line.

They think it’s name repeated multiple times in my previous post with all the quotes.

tl;dr Eric Ciaramella.

A CIA guy who's a holdover from the Obama administration. According to some coworkers, he was overheard in 2017 plotting how to get Trump removed from office. Now he's the unofficial whistleblower that nobody is allowed to question nor mention by name even though practically everyone in the government knows he did it.

Isn’t that hearsay? Something something about hearsay not being enough when it comes to the President but A-Ok when possibly endangering someone’s life.

Glad you could resolve that for the group.

He asked and I responded. But yeah, shame on me for sharing widely-known information on an old video game website with a handful of people in a politics forum that can't even be seen from the main page by visitors. In the extremely unlikely chance that someone decides to attack him based on my post then the blood will be on my hands for sure.

He is right Rav.

Won't someone please think of the whistleblower !

if you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball

He's overreacting and making false equivalence. I never said that "hearsay" would be enough to convict him of anything. Also, it's not my fault that a few idiots in government outed Ciaramella by freaking out whenever his name was brought up, forcing anyone with half a brain to make the conclusion that it was him.

Pulling up from 40 on your shorty while eating a cheesy gordita crunch wrap, it's Bar-melo Xan-thony!

Those are some big words to say he was making a joke and using my lack of self awareness against me.

That's -exactly- what it is. The US pretends to be many things, but it does all the same ***that they abhor.

What are you guys smoking?

All recent arguments concerning hearsay have been relative to the legal definition of the term. If being a whistleblower was a crime, then I would back up the notion that you would need to be able to prove that he was the whistleblower beyond a reasonable doubt, using only what was admissible as evidence by a judge. Hearsay would likely not clear that high bar, just as it's not going to clear the bar to convict Trump.

This is a video game forum, not a courtroom. I can say that it's pretty obvious that Ciaramella is the whistleblower based on the reactions of certain government officials. It's just pointing out the obvious. You're free to disagree with me, but at least try to recognize the difference between a courtroom and a public forum.

If that's true, you suck at both.

I'll have some of whatever you're having.