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09 October 19
FOCUS: Matt Taibbi | The 'Whistleblower' Probably Isn't
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "It's an insult to real whistleblowers to use the term with the Ukrainegate protagonist."
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "It's an insult to real whistleblowers to use the term with the Ukrainegate protagonist."
EXCERPT:
Americans who’ve blown the whistle over serious offenses by the federal government either spend the rest of their lives overseas, like Edward Snowden, end up in jail, like Chelsea Manning, get arrested and ruined financially, like former NSA official Thomas Drake, have their homes raided by FBI like disabled NSA vet William Binney, or get charged with espionage like ex-CIA exposer-of-torture John Kiriakou. It’s an insult to all of these people, and the suffering they’ve weathered, to frame the ballcarrier in the Beltway’s latest partisan power contest as a whistleblower.
Drake, who was the first to expose the NSA’s secret surveillance program, seems to have fared better than most. He ended up working in an Apple Store, where he ran into Eric Holder, who was shopping for an iPhone.
I’ve met a lot of whistleblowers, in both the public and private sector. Many end up broke, living in hotels, defamed, (often) divorced, and lucky if they have any kind of job. One I knew got turned down for a waitressing job because her previous employer wouldn’t vouch for her. She had little kids.
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