Whistleblower’s Attorney Reached Out To Maguire Over Fear For Client’s Safety

Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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CBS’ “60 Minutes” obtained a letter from the whistleblower’s lead attorney outlining concerns about his client’s “personal safety,” the program reported Sunday night.

In an email to acting DNI Joseph Maguire, attorney Andrew Bakaj cited President Donald Trump’s threatening comments about the whistleblower, saying that his client could be put in “harm’s way” should his identity be disclosed.

CBS reported a step further, saying that the whistleblower had been put under “federal protection” because of the personal safety fears. Bakaj tweeted a contradiction to that reporting.

However, in the letter to Maguire, Bakaj does thank him for his “office’s support thus far to to activate appropriate resources to ensure their safety.”

“60 Minutes” said on Twitter late Sunday that it “stands by its sources and reporting on the whistleblower.”

President Donald Trump accused the whistleblower of being a “partisan” from the start and is now demanding the right to meet his “accuser.”

Read the letter from Bakaj to Maguire here:

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  1. Whistleblower’s Attorney Reached Out To Maguire Over Fear For Client’s Safety

    I guess they have to do it as a formality, but I would not trust anyone’s safety to Admiral Maguire who has proven to have the spine of a jellyfish he would turn the whistleblower to Putin’s assassins and justify the whole thing on Executive Privilege (nowhere in the constitution, even as a concept)

  2. Isn’t it uncanny how this truly resembles the trial of a mob boss?

    Let’s hope that no one pulls a Frankie Five-angels…

  3. Avatar for ANNFFL ANNFFL says:

    How many times do citizens have to fear for their own safety because of the threat by the prez? Another proof that he’s a Russian plant.

  4. Dearest WB,

    Your Highness, you have Pops, RBG, and all Obamas status with me. That means that if you need me to personally protect you, or you need a kidney, a liver, a heart, an eye, I got you. I’m here for you and I’m pretty sure I’m not alone.

    Every piece of my heart,

    Plucky

  5. Maybe that’s because it is the trial of a mob boss…

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