John Kiriakou: Whistleblowers Will Get No Mercy From the New Administration

[portlander23]

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Whistleblowers Will Get No Mercy From the New Administration—John Kiriakou

Whistleblower protection in national security is very important to me. I didn’t pay too much attention to it until I blew the whistle on the CIA’s torture program and the entire weight of the U.S. government fell on my head. Eric Holder, President Obama’s first attorney general, was a monster. But I don’t think he’s anything like what we’ll see from Donald Trump.

Regarding Edward Snowden, who told Americans that the National Security Agency was spying on every one of them, Trump already has said, “I think Snowden is a terrible threat. I think he’s a terrible traitor. And you know what we used to do in the good old days when we were a strong country—you know what we used to do to traitors, right?” The interviewer answered, “Well, you killed them, Donald.” Trump finished, “Well, he is damaging America. This guy is really doing damage to this country, and he’s also making us look like dopes.”

Trump’s new CIA director, Michael Pompeo, said in an interview on C-SPAN that Snowden is “a traitor” and added that, “He should be brought back from Russia and given due process, and I think the proper outcome would be that he would be given a death sentence.”

This is what would-be national security whistleblowers are up against. I don’t expect anything good to come from Trump.

I have to think we're going to need a few good whistleblowers to tell us what happens behind the scenes in a Trump administration.

[AgadorSparticus]

1. Bully, bully, bully....that's all they do. Strong-arm and bully. Fascism at its finest

This shit can and WILL be defeated.

[Beartracks]

2. Weird - I thought electing Trump is what made us look like dopes. n/t

[treestar]

3. Not if they leak to Russia