Anti-Trump whistleblower’s laywer worked for Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer
The anonymous U.S. intelligence official accusing President Donald Trump of improperly asking the Ukrainian leader to investigate Joe Biden’s family has a legal team that runs a group offering financial help to fired whistleblowers, one of them had worked for Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.).
The whistleblower will be represented by attorney Andrew Bakaj, a former CIA officer and veteran national security defense attorney Mark Zaid who along with John Tye, founded a nonprofit organization Whistleblower Aid that offers legal representation to fired whistleblowers, according to the
Washington Examiner.
Whistleblower Aid launched in 2017, eight months after President Trump took office, is controversial among lawyers and critics who accused it of violating attorney ethics.
“We want to advise people what to do, whether it’s going to Congress, or an inspector general or Robert Mueller,” Tye said while asserting that “is not a partisan effort.”
Andrew Bakaj, who recently has worked as an official in the CIA and Pentagon specializing in whistleblower and security clearances, interned for Schumer in 2001 and for Hillary Clinton in the fall of the same year, according to Bakaj’s
LinkedIn page.