01 October 19
Source: Mike Pompeo Was Listening on Trump's Ukrainian Call
Zachary Cohen and Jamie Gangel, CNN
Excerpt: "Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was on the July 25 phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that has come under scrutiny following last week's release of a whistleblower complaint dealing, in part, with circumstances surrounding that conversation."
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Zachary Cohen and Jamie Gangel, CNN
Excerpt: "Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was on the July 25 phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that has come under scrutiny following last week's release of a whistleblower complaint dealing, in part, with circumstances surrounding that conversation."
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Rudy Giuliani. (photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
The House Intelligence Committee Just Subpoenaed Rudy Giuliani for Documents Related to Impeachment
Li Zhou, Vox
Excerpt: "Three House committees are asking Giuliani to submit records related to a July phone call between Trump and the Ukrainian president."
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Li Zhou, Vox
Excerpt: "Three House committees are asking Giuliani to submit records related to a July phone call between Trump and the Ukrainian president."
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Edward Snowden. (photo: Wired)
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "A significant amount, and potentially even a small majority, of the most important work in government, in intelligence, is today performed by contractors, not government employees."
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'This is what executive branch officials fear, the law working as designed. That is why so much effort goes into containing, rather than fostering, whistleblowing.' (photo: CNN)
I Was a Whistleblower. The Trump Whistleblower Is About to Go Through Hell.
Dan Meyer, The Daily Beast
Meyer writes: "Retribution, soul-searching, and years of inquiry followed me after I exposed wrongdoing in the intelligence community. Imagine what the person who exposed the president faces."
Dan Meyer, The Daily Beast
Meyer writes: "Retribution, soul-searching, and years of inquiry followed me after I exposed wrongdoing in the intelligence community. Imagine what the person who exposed the president faces."
EXCERPTS:
I made three national security disclosures regarding wrongdoing within the intelligence community program used recently by a whistleblower filing a complaint about President Donald Trump and Ukraine. I was in charge of the IC whistleblowing program now overseen by Inspector General Michael Atkinson and acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire. The program is supposed to forward the complaint to Congress and then protect the source. Instead, in 2017, I was sidelined and eventually fired.
I had revealed the suppression of the disclosure to Congress that July. The matter is still classified. My disclosures were about matters important, but still garden-variety Beltway corruption allegations—nothing like the Trump-Ukraine matter. So I was a whistleblower while serving as the DNI’s advocate for whistleblowing. Existential. The whistleblowing was about whistleblowing. What follows happened to me and there are lessons for the Ukraine whistleblower and the wider country.
Riot police clash with protesters in the Sha Tin district of Hong Kong. (photo: Jorge Silva/Reuters)
Hong Kong Police Shoot Protester, Marking a New Level of Violence
Emma Graham-Harrison and Verna Yu, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "Hong Kong police have shot a protester with live ammunition for the first time in four months of demonstrations, marking a major escalation in the use of force on a day when China celebrated 70 years of Communist party rule with a triumphalist military parade."
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Emma Graham-Harrison and Verna Yu, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "Hong Kong police have shot a protester with live ammunition for the first time in four months of demonstrations, marking a major escalation in the use of force on a day when China celebrated 70 years of Communist party rule with a triumphalist military parade."
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Conservation groups fear the ease with which live animals can be bought on Facebook and other platforms has opened up the market for smugglers. (photo: W. Thieme/Picture-Alliance)
Illegal Wildlife Trade Thrives on Facebook, Internet Forums
Deutsche Welle
Excerpt: "In Germany, live reptiles make up the majority of wildlife traded online, a report into wildlife cybercrime by conservation group International Fund for Animal Welfare found in 2018."
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Deutsche Welle
Excerpt: "In Germany, live reptiles make up the majority of wildlife traded online, a report into wildlife cybercrime by conservation group International Fund for Animal Welfare found in 2018."
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