Posted on 05/07/2019 8:43:05 PM PDT by bitt
I'm in my 30th year of covering national news and I've learned a hard truth about the federal government under numerous administrations. It's a culture where truth-telling is frowned upon; coverup is rewarded and encouraged.
That helps answer a question many have recently asked about the FBI and our intelligence community: Why haven't more whistleblowers come forward?
Several months ago, an FBI source told me that numerous whistleblowers had gone to members of Congress with information about the FBI and the Trump-Russia scandal, only to have congressional leaders turn their names over to the Department of Justice. True or not, this was the word on the street, and it had a chilling impact on other would-be whistleblowers.
The fact is, insiders know that things rarely turn out well for the whistleblowers. They and their families are targeted, attacked and smeared. They lose their jobs or chance to advance. Their health suffers. Their personal lives fall apart.
Meantime, they look over their shoulders and see that their truth-telling changed nothing. The guilty parties usually stay in their cushy jobs or are allowed to quietly retire with full benefits. Sometimes they're promoted.
So it's no surprise that, even though I believe the federal government is populated with mostly good people, they tend to keep their mouths shut and go along. After all, why come forward if your actions aren't going to fix anything and the only result will be that your life is ruined?
There's a simple yet dramatic way to change this longstanding culture, one that everyone should be able to get behind: A new whistleblower amnesty program.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
A good start but there are other additional needs to protect “whistleblowers” or as in the case of the Ben Ghazi survivors, who were forced at great threats of heavy penalties, to sign essential “non-disclosure” agreements which prevented them from telling honest military leaders what REALLY happened that night.
A few of the non-military survivors have spoken out (you don’t fuck with them; they are battle hardened and don’t give a crap about uniformed assholes whose job it is to shut them up from telling the truth).
However, up to 32 or more survivors are under this “shut your mouth or else” threat imposed by the Obama regime and its military cowardly leaders. Would like to know how much influence Hillary, Rice, Rhodes and DOD leaders had in imposing that draconian “gag”.
Time to grant all of them total immunity under the whistleblower law, to tell Congress, only the Senate Armed Services Committee (don’t know whether I could trust any Democrat leader/member of the House ASC).
All military and civilian personnel named by these sworn-in witnesses as complicate in the ben Ghazi fiasco, deaths and “Stand Down” orders (written or verbal), must be served subpoenas to testify before the SASC and if they take the 5th, their careers should be frozen pending General Court martials. For civilians, their Civil Service status should be frozen, and if they were Obama/Clinton political hacks, they should be barred from ever working for the government again, all security clearances taken away forever, and have them open to civil law suits by the families of the BG dead and wounded.
Civil grand juries should also be convened against them where allowed by law so that the cowards and weasels cannot take the 5th.
Show them no mercy. If necessary, destroy their careers, reduce their ranks as low as possible, reputations, and future. I don’t give a damn. I want them to pay for their Obama asskissing cowardice, Dereliction of Duty, Malfeasance of Office, and Abandonment of American service men/women, State Dept. officials and al related civilian support employees.
If the Trump Administration wants to really play hardball with the Obama cowards, they must “swing for the fences” using these cretins heads as the ball.
“It’s doubtful that even 25%-30% of the federal workforce are “good people”. It isn’t just the politicians that are corrupt.”
And let’s not stop with just the Federal workforce, because although the crimes are probably more petty, the amounts of money that are stolen are bigger in the State and Local Government workers.
Sharyl Attlissin is a national treasure.
The last line of the article is the sad truth.
If He and Trump began aggressively cleaning house and making a big deal of it too- it would garner a lot of votes for Trump as people are sick and tired of the dang corruption in government
This condition is the inevitable condition of government bureaucracies which by nature are large and beyond control. Why? Because of human nature: man is sinful, and utterly corrupt - and will stay so apart from the saving grace of God and Christ’s finished work on the cross.
The amnesty program will probably will never happen for the same reason.
Not ONE of those FABULOUS 99% of the “Good Hard Working FBI agents”...NOT ONE OF THEM QUIT! HONEST, MY ASS.
You can blame TREY GOWDY for her escaping justice!! He was such a disappointment!
There IS an Inspector General for the Intelligence Community, but he seems to have done NOTHING!
It has been long a fact that once the FBI becomes involved in any case, no information from the system will be true. It happens even when there is no apparent reason why anyone should be worried about the truth getting out. It is just a given that any true information is not to be allowed to the citizenry.
Government itself is the enemy of the people. Entrenched bureaucracy is primarily interested in its own authority. It does not ever serve the needs of the citizenry. Permanent government is anathema to our constitution.
I can attest to this personally.
We do not have a "justice system". We have a system of litigation. Those are two totally different concepts.
Waiting line at Ft Marcy Park.
Louis, government is just a huge “jobs program” for semi-useless people. Whatever any agency is supposed to do “for the people,” it is secondary to what it “does for those employed by it!” Not long ago we received a notice from our Sanitary District explaining their upcoming rate increase. The number one reason for the increase was to “shore up employee pensions!”
Here in California “public safety employees” are able to take a full retirement at age 50. And that includes support employees, like someone who answers the phone. In Los Angeles the “lifeguards” at the beach are “firefighters” so at age 50, after spending there working life ogling scantily clad women for a living, they too can retire. And the worst thing about it is they will most likely be a taxpayer expense (that's they and their spouses) for another thirty years or more, thanks to the generous healthcare benefits that go along with their equally generous, fully indexed pensions. You just have to wonder how much longer the taxpayer is going to stand for this kind of largesse?
Include me among the many who luv’d Trey Gowdy. He was bold, fearless, and outspoken.
Was he also ineffective? Yes. But let’s remember that his time in Congress was under a Democratic Administration and a Democratic DOJ, and the Deep State as well. Congress can investigate but it can’t prosecute. With a politicized DOJ, justice is denied.
Yet, curiously, when Trump was elected Gowdy declined to serve in the Administration, even as Attorney General. And then he left Congress when his career was still rising.
My guess is that the Obama FBI, along with one one of the Obama Intel agencies, dug up some dirt from Gowdy’s past. They had every reason to — Gowdy was their fiercest and most eloquent critic! Maybe he got into some serious trouble as a young man. Maybe some racist hazing when he was a teen that he long repented of. Maybe a brief homosexual fling in the college.
Gowdy’s departure was fast. Fast. I can imagine an unsigned letter or email showing up and telling him he would be exposed, quickly, if he ever went to Senate confirmation. So he made the decision to hang it up and spare himself and his family the humiliation.
Gowdy worried about his new hair styles more than his job. He coulda been GREAT! He was just alright.
It’s doubtful that even 25%-30% of the federal workforce are “good people”. It isn’t just the politicians that are corrupt.
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I agree. Not even one person had integrity and courage to place honor above their pension or their house payment?
If you trust God, He will give you courage to do the right thing, no matter the cost.
Lesson to be learned?
If you’re gonna be a whistleblower, talk to a lawyer FIRST.
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