So, You Want To Protect Whistle Blowers?

This past week, the Democrats filed for impeachment proceedings and have been riled up about protecting a whistle blower who reported Trump’s call to the Ukrainian president.

One interesting thing about this is that this whistle blower did not actually witness the call, from all appearances. Instead, he heard about the call from someone who heard about the call from someone who heard the call.

That’s fine. I support protection of whistle blowers in all cases. Though I already made a video examining the transcript of that call and it’s another nothingburger. Frantic ranting of deranged neoliberals literally protecting the corruption of one of their own elite. Not to mention another attempted distraction to keep from having to discuss policies or answer for their attacks on Progressive voters.

The most hypocritical thing of which I am sure you are aware is the continued incarceration of Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden and Julian Assange. The same democrats were completely silent when John Kiriakou was convicted in 2012 under the Obama administration.

Let’s compare what was revealed by each of these with the current, unnamed whistle blower.

Chelsea Manning forwarded information to the media regarding US military murder of journalists and civilians in Iraq. While these events were reported by many media outlets, what is most known about was her connection with Julian Assange, who published documents provided by Manning which revealed the murder…