The 2020 Democratic candidate with whom the CIA whistleblower had
a "professional" tie is Joe Biden, according to intelligence officers and former White House officials.
Lawyers for the whistleblower said he had worked only "in the executive branch." The
Washington Examiner has established that he is a career CIA analyst who was detailed to the National Security Council at the White House and has since left. On Sept. 26, the
New York Times reported that he was a CIA officer. On Oct. 4, the newspaper
added that he "was detailed to the National Security Council at one point."
Michael Atkinson, the Intelligence Community's inspector general,
told members of Congress that the whistleblower had a "professional tie" to a 2020 Democratic candidate. He had written earlier that while the
whistleblower's complaint was credible, he had shown "some indicia of an arguable political bias ... in favor of a rival political candidate."