By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The FBI is investigating death threats leveled against the CIA whistleblower whose complaint prompted the U.S. House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry.
Since the whistleblower’s identify is still anonymous, the threats were sent to the legal team representing the CIA official, a person with direct knowledge of the matter told the New York Daily News.
Several of the death threats mentioned executing and shooting the CIA informant.
One email sent to the legal team says, “The whistleblower should be shot.”
Another person wrote, “In Putin’s country, they would execute this person.”
According to the source, the FBI is taking the threats “incredibly seriously.”
President Trump has turned up the hateful rhetoric directed at the whistleblower, calling him a “partisan operative,” “spy,” and “never Trumper.”
“Sounding more and more like the so-called Whistleblower isn’t a Whistleblower at all,” Trump tweeted last month.
