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The 'Whistleblower' Probably Isn't

pawzpawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 21,156 Founders Club
edited October 2019 in Tug Tavern
It’s an insult to real whistleblowers to use the term with the Ukrainegate protagonist

By 
MATT TAIBBI

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/whistleblower-ukraine-trump-impeach-cia-spying-895529/

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.

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