[PowderMonkey]

"Do you think the people in your instance thought not enough was at stake?"

Oh, there was plenty at stake. Suffice it to say serious enough for me to come forward and risk my career, and the lives of my wife and kids over it. Something I never would have done had I been aware of the extent of official complacency and cowardice in DC. I paid a heavy price in the years that followed, but "I'm still here, you bastards. I'm still here." They're the ones having to peer over their shoulder, and wait for the other shoe to drop. Not me.

[butterdezillion]

They must have thought they could afford to be complacent. What does it take to shake these guys out of that? Are they unable to see the consequences, or do they think they are sheltered from them, or what?

Did we lose what was at stake in your instance?

I feel for anybody who has to put his/her family at risk in order to do what needs to be done. To have done that and had trusted colleagues act as if it meant nothing must have been a punch in the gut. Betrayal stinks. I hope your family has come out of it OK and understands why you did what you did.

[editor-surveyor]

Whistle blowers rarely fare well.

The fact that you and your’s are still here is a statistical blip. Think abnout how many people have had to die to keep the Clintons out of jail.

How many more will have to pay the price for Obama?

The system has no room for “Truth and the American Way.”