Monday, October 7, 2019

The ‘Whistleblower’ Probably Isn’t

Real American whistleblower, Chelsea Manning 

  What is it....? :)

It’s an insult to real whistleblowers to use the term with the Ukrainegate protagonist

Start with the initial headline, in the story the Washington Post “broke” on September 18th:

TRUMP’S COMMUNICATIONS WITH FOREIGN LEADER ARE PART OF WHISTLEBLOWER COMPLAINT THAT SPURRED STANDOFF BETWEEN SPY CHIEF AND CONGRESS, FORMER OFFICIALS SAY

The unnamed person at the center of this story sure didn’t sound like a whistleblower. Our intelligence community wouldn’t wipe its ass with a real whistleblower.

Americans who’ve blown the whistle over serious offenses by the federal government either spend the rest of their lives overseas, like Edward Snowden, end up in jail, like Chelsea Manning, get arrested and ruined financially, like former NSA official Thomas Drake, have their homes raided by FBI like disabled NSA vet William Binney, or get charged with espionage like ex-CIA exposer-of-torture John Kiriakou. It’s an insult to all of these people, and the suffering they’ve weathered, to frame the ballcarrier in the Beltway’s latest partisan power contest as a whistleblower.


6 comments:

  1. Excellent Article Brock. Is that Obama's Creation pictured there as in Man-ning?

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    1. Hey, that would be an even greater picture by changing Michelle with the beauty above and Obama holding his umbrella over 'it' as they go through the archway, don't you think? :)

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  2. A good piece on the timing of the set up against Trump. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1180271474470461440.html

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    1. Thanks. https://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2019/10/timing-matters-thread-on-major-points.html

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