Blurred Line Between Espionage and Truth (WH Uses Espionage Act Against Whistle-Blowers)

Last Wednesday in the White House briefing room, the administration’s press secretary, Jay Carney, opened on a somber note, citing the deaths of Marie Colvin and Anthony Shadid, two reporters who had died “in order to bring truth” while reporting in Syria.

Jake Tapper, the White House correspondent for ABC News, pointed out that the administration had lauded brave reporting in distant lands more than once and then asked, “How does that square with the fact that this administration has been so aggressively trying to stop aggressive journalism in the United States by using the Espionage Act to take whistle-blowers to court?”

He then suggested that the administration seemed to believe that “the truth should come out abroad; it shouldn’t come out here.”

Fair point. The Obama administration, which promised during its transition to power that it would enhance “whistle-blower laws to protect federal workers,” has been more prone than any administration in history in trying to silence and prosecute federal workers.

The Espionage Act, enacted back in 1917 to punish those who gave aid to our enemies, was used three times in all the prior administrations to bring cases against government officials accused of providing classified information to the media. It has been used six times since the current president took office....

FDR personally saw to perhaps the most shameful blot on U.S. history. "Too few Americans today know of this travesty, a shameful blot on U.S. history."

That actually is a comment about something to which I compared what the Obama Administration and progressives are doing today with what FDR himself directed against his political opponents 70 years ago.

They have been going after whistle blowers not just the Tea Party movement.

I want to mention the comparison again (and again) because a cursory search for information about the Great Sedition Trial of 1944 will yield tons of acceptance -- from the Left -- that these anti-communist opponents of FDR were Nazi supporters. That is a lie just as the Obamunists lie about the Tea Party -- and now the whistle blowers.

As one of the prosecuted explained in the reference I provided on another thread FDR's DoJ included convicted Nazi supporters in the group of the accused for the sole intent to support the lie that all were Nazi supporters.

After years of persecution which began in the 1930s the efforts were finally denounced by all except the communists and their dupes.

Harry Truman as president fired the DoJ prosecutor and even the Washington Post editors -- whose employee helped FDR's DoJ entrap the victims -- denounced the years-long efforts and said that a mistake "was made in bringing 30 individuals of widely varying temperaments and backgrounds to trial at the same time and place for a series of alleged offenses classified as sedition."

Also the purpose of the president of the United States of America himself going after this group of "little people" was because it was merely a "warm up". The real targets were the likes of Republican Senator Robert Taft.

I hope Washington-insider Republicans take a look at all aspects of the Great Sedition Trial of 1944. It could prepare them.

Of course Obama is a nationalist socialist by virtue of ideology and historical activity.

Ideology wise, Obama was a member of Jeremiah Wright’s Chicago church for over 20 years. Obama’s children were baptized there. Wright preaches and publicly presents his ideology as the racial and spiritual superiority of the black man. This is Obama’s belief too, in otherwords “minority and ethnic nationalism.” You can see this ideology in how Obama has treated Arizona over illegal immigration, for example.

As to Obama’s socialism, one need look no further than how GM bondholders was treated by the Obama administration
in the bankruptcy case in which the government bail out occurred. Obama forced bond holders as secure creditors to take cents on the dollar vaklue of the bonds and then a few months later those same bonds were issued to the union at close to face value, giving the unions a huge windfall profit. It was the confiscation of bondholders property.
That policy continues as Obama defines his enemies as dirty rotten bankers, dirty rotten rich peole who need to be taxed...etc.

Yes , all this is nationalist socialism, fascism justified by the ideology of racial and ethnic mionority superiorty, the destruction of the traditional wealth of America and its redistribution, and the apologetic approach for our nations alleged colonial wars of the past with Japan, the Philipines, etc.

So why is anyone surprised that Obama is using fascist technique in reigning in leaks by prosecution of government workers under the Espionage Act? This is what fascism does, illegal , unconstitutional activity which Obama does not want diosclosed to the public, and so Obama must reign in any leakers.Next the whistle blowers will begin to die, and be assassinated, according to the historical pattern of fascism.

Note that the rise in fascism in Europe took more that a decade, and in the end it was the people themselves who elected fascists such as Mussolinin and Hitler to power, who later seized absolute dictatorial power.

That process of the seizure of dictatorial power is now well under way by the fascist Obama administration.

Good read:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html

MSM bias extends to their choice of ‘whistle-blowers’.

Twenty years ago most of us would have sided with ‘the press’ on this issue - now, it’s ‘who gives a rats ass’...

The only ‘whistle-blowers’ the liberal media can find are those who hurt conservatives or those who gig a liberal to be more liberal. It’s agenda driven. It’s liberals in the press pretending they’re kingmakers - rather than reporters. It’s editors lacing the wit to call down the grandiosity of the new newsroom.

The press is no longer worth defending.

MSM bias extends to their choice of ‘whistle-blowers’.

Twenty years ago most of us would have sided with ‘the press’ on this issue - now, it’s ‘who gives a rats ass’...

The only ‘whistle-blowers’ the liberal media can find are those who hurt conservatives or those who gig a liberal to be more liberal. It’s agenda driven. It’s liberals in the press pretending they’re kingmakers - rather than ‘mere’ reporters. It’s editors lacking the wit to call down the grandiosity of their new newsroom.

The press is no longer worth defending.

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