Rep. Will Hurd said it is important to safeguard the identity of those who would expose corruption
Republican Rep. Will Hurd on Sunday broke with members of his party who have been calling for the release of the Ukraine whistleblower’s identity, though he agreed with his party’s calls to have Hunter Biden testify in the first public impeachment hearings set to begin this week.
Hurd, a retiring Texas Republican who spent years in the CIA, told “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace that outing the whistleblower by compelling their testimony in a public hearing would send a chilling message to potential whistleblowers in the future.“I think we should be protecting the identity of the whistleblower. I've said that from the very beginning because how we treat this whistleblower will impact whistleblowers in the future,” Hurd argued.
While Republicans have clamored for the whistleblower’s public testimony, arguing that most of what the complaint contained is hearsay, nearly every accusation in the complaint has been independently confirmed over weeks of closed-door testimony from Trump administration officials. Right-wing media outlets have been circulating a name they claim is the whistleblower's, prompting an outcry from lawyers representing the whistleblower and concerns about the whistleblower’s safety.
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