Your "whistleblower," my treasonous leaker Contributed by Bill Faith
Whistleblowing Does Not Mean Going To The Press Ed Morrissey
The Washington Post reports that a federal grand jury has to Russell Tice, an officer in the National Security Agency whose employment was terminated after stories about classified programs began appearing in the press. The Department of Justice has tasked the panel with investigating possible violations of the Espionage Act, and Tice's admissions of contacts with journalists appears to be a good place to start:
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Tice is a member of the , which claims that the government has begun a "witch hunt" for whistleblowers with this action. The group's director, Sibel Edmonds, said in a on the web site that "to prevent the public’s right to know, they [the government] now are getting engaged in a witch hunt targeting these patriotic truth tellers.” The New York Times the ACLU as describing Tice as a "courageous federal employee' and his leaks as a "valuable public service".
Simply put, neither the NSWBC nor the ACLU has a clue about whistleblowing, especially in a national-security context -- and their actions will leave our nation defenseless in an asymmetrical war on terror if they succeed.
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It's like I said : "Indict him, give him a fair trail, then shoot the son of a bitch."
Contributed by Bill Faith on July 29, 2006 at 11:25 AM in , , |
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Indictment, trial and then shooting?
I don't want to be obsessive about this - I don't care in which order those three things are done. Reverse order would be a fine improvization.