The Times article, published on Sept. 26, carried the headline, “Whistle-Blower Is a C.I.A. Sperry’s tweet included claims about the individual’s partisan affiliation and the timing of his assignments that weren’t in the Times article. D’Annunzio said he first came across the name of the supposed whistleblower in a Gateway Pundit article. One of D’Annunzio’s ads, viewed as many as 150,000 times, provided the supposed whistleblower’s full name and links to the RealClearInvestigations article. An attorney in Texas also promoted a post revealing the name of the supposed whistleblower and calling him an “illegal SPY.”

Source: Washington Post November 07, 2019 14:36 UTC