1. Ciaramella, a career CIA analyst, was Ukraine director on the NSC toward the end of the Obama administration. He worked under both Joe Biden and John Brennan reporting directly to Susan Rice through Charles Kupchan who had extensive ties with Clinton acolyte Sydney Blumenthal.
2. Ciaramella stayed at the NSC during the first few months of the Trump administration as acting senior director for European and Russian affairs and then special assistant to Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, Trump's national security adviser, until he left White House in summer 2017.
3. Ciaramella also worked extensively with DNC operative Alexandra Chalupa, who led the DNC effort to fabricate links between Trump and Russia. Chalupa “met top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in DC in an effort to expose ties between Paul Manafort and Russia.”
4. Ciaramella invited Chalupa to meetings & events at the Obama White House with Ukrainian lobbyists seeking aid from Obama. Chuck Grassley: "Chalupa’s actions show she was simultaneously working on behalf of Ukraine, and on behalf of the DNC and Clinton campaign"
5. Remarkably, despite his clear connections to Susan Rice and John Brennan, he was brought back into the inner circle of the Trump NSC by HR McMaster. McMaster appointed him to be his personal aide.
6. Ciarmella was fired in June of 2017 after being directly implicated in a series of serious national security leaks from the White House calculated to be damaging to President Trump.
