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BE SMART: It doesn’t matter who the whistleblower is. The information
s/he provided has been corroborated & supplanted by numerous witnesses with firsthand knowledge.

The only reason @realDonaldTrump wants the name out there is to encourage MAGA folk to harass/threaten them. 1/
“We need the whistleblower’s identity” is a conspiracy theory along the same lines of “we need to investigate the origins of the Russia investigation,” based on the premise that any facts uncovered are somehow invalid if the people who uncovered them disliked @realDonaldTrump. 2/
The common idea driving both conspiracy theories is a lack of comprehension of / distaste for the very concept of a professional non-political civil service.

For example, GOP hacks are circulating (without evidence) the name of someone thought to be the whistleblower, while...3/
...insinuating that if this person is the whistleblower (which we don’t know and doesn’t matter), the initial ICIG complaint is somehow tainted because this career CIA employee, who was allegedly detailed to the NSC, worked with/under @JoeBiden/ @AmbassadorRice / @JohnBrennan 4/
at one point or another. Trump hacks often refer to these folks as “Obama Holdovers, but here’s the thing about that — career employees who are detailed to the White House/@WHNSC work for whoever happens to be in power at any given time. That’s their job. 5/
We’ve had a professional civil service since January 16, 1883. That’s when President Chester A. Arthur signed the Pendleton Act.

Before 1883, all federal jobs were filled by loyalists of whoever was President at the time. As Vice President, Arthur had been strongly opposed...6/
...to changing that, but he changed his mind after a disgruntled, mentally ill job seeker murdered President James Garfield (with the help of Garfield’s incompetent doctor) and thrust him into the top job.

So Arthur signed the bill to create the civil service into law, and...7/
...since then, a professional, nonpartisan civil service has helped the US Gov’t grow over 150 years while largely avoiding widespread public corruption & rank politicization of law enforcement, the military & intelligence. It also appears to be why @realDonaldTrump hates it. 8/8
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