But first, ALCOA would like you to meet a man who has been with them for fifty years. McCarthy told mainly in his own words and pictures. Tonight See it Now devotes its entire half hour to a report on Senator Joseph R. Prepare yoursdelf for the longest freaking quote ever….and what makes this all the more true is that Obama was a Junior Senator for Illinois before he ran for president. Mike.the title of this article just dropped a huge bombshell of a thought for people to think about….I think in one tittle sentence you just gave the entire Obama Administration the EXACT description that it deserves! Edward R.
The administration uses espionage charges to scare whistleblowers away and to permanently damage the reputation of anyone who dares even the slightest whistleblowing which might embarrass the administration.įiled Under: cia, john kiriakou, mccarthyism, whistleblowers There was no espionage charge for Panetta. When former Defense Secretary and CIA Director Leon Panetta boastfully revealed the identity of the Seal Team member who killed Osama bin Laden in a speech to an audience that included uncleared individuals, the Pentagon and the CIA simply called the disclosure “inadvertent”. Nearly a century later, when the deputy director for national intelligence revealed the amount of the highly-classified intelligence budget in an ill-conceived speech, she was not even sent a letter of reprimand – despite the fact the Russians, Chinese, and others had sought the figure for decades. If someone powerful reveals information for other reasons (i.e., not to blow the whistle on abuse) there’s no problem: He notes, of course, that there’s a massive double standard. It was my punishment for blowing the whistle on the CIA’s torture program and for confirming to the press, despite government protestations to the contrary, that the US government was, indeed, in the business of torture. All three espionage charges were eventually dropped. The other espionage charge was for giving the same unclassified business card to a reporter for ABC News. I gave him no classified information – only the business card of a former CIA colleague who had never been undercover. Two of my espionage charges were the result of a conversation I had with a New York Times reporter about torture. (I was only the second person in US history to be charged with violating the IIPA, a law that was written to be used against rogues like Philip Agee.) In early 2012, I was arrested and charged with three counts of espionage and one count of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act (IIPA). Kiriakou recounts the details of his own case: John Kiriakou, who is in jail for blowing the whistle on the CIA’s torture program, has written a compelling op-ed for The Guardian about how President Obama’s war against whistleblowers, including calling whistleblowers spies is like modern-day McCarthyism, where if you’re not careful, the government will denounce you as a “traitor” or a “spy” when all you really did was expose questionable behavior by the government.
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