NEW: CIA Director Haspel has been publicly silent as President Trump has railed about the Ukraine whistleblower, a CIA analyst, and pressure is building on Haspel to take a stand on the matter, current and former intelligence officials tell NBCNews.
Former CIA Director John Brennan, a Trump critic and NBC News contributor, said intelligence leaders should be pushing back both publicly and privately against what amounts to a campaign to punish the whistleblower.
The law governing intelligence community whistleblowers makes it illegal for the inspector general or others who handled the complaint to reveal his name, but that provision is not binding on others who learn the name outside that formal channel, experts say. Asked why Maguire has not spoken out publicly in response to efforts by Trump and his allies to denounced the whistleblower, a spokeswoman for the acting DNI pointed to his comments when he testified to Congress in September.
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