{"id":2485,"date":"2019-11-05T09:02:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T14:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=2485"},"modified":"2019-11-05T09:02:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T14:02:10","slug":"kill-the-whistleblower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2019\/11\/05\/kill-the-whistleblower\/","title":{"rendered":"Kill the Whistleblower"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=weHNnsMY82A\">Elmer Fudd \u2013 Kill the Rabbit<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Whistleblower Act<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u201cWhistleblower Protection Act of 1989\u201d was passed by Congress to protect Federal Government employees.  It protects employees who find that their agency is committing fraud, waste, abuse, illegality or corruption.\u00a0\u00a0The law established the Office of Special Counsel, an independent agency to investigate charges made by whistleblowers, and to protect them from retaliation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Act established procedures for a \u201cwhistleblower\u201d to use to raise their concerns.&nbsp;&nbsp;The primary role of the Protection Act is to prevent supervisors from taking action against the whistleblower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Phone Call<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u201cwhistleblower\u201d reported information he\/she heard that went on during a Presidential phone call.\u00a0He\/she did not have first-hand information.\u00a0\u00a0The report outlined a \u201cpathway\u201d to the first hand information though,  a trail the Inspector General and later the House Intelligence Committee used to discover the facts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The current impeachment investigation began with the \u201cwhistleblower\u201d report.  It was delivered to the Inspector General for the Intelligence Community, and the House Intelligence Committee.\u00a0\u00a0The report outlined potential illegal acts by the President of the United States in a conversation with the President of Ukraine.  It also listed actions taken by members of the National Security Council and the White House Counsel to hide those actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to depositions released by the Committee, and a redacted \u201ctranscript\u201d released by the White House, the Whistleblower\u2019s story is true.&nbsp;&nbsp;President Trump asked Ukrainian President Zelensky \u201c\u2026for a favor, though,\u201d after Zelensky requested money already earmarked for Ukrainian defense.&nbsp;&nbsp;The favor:&nbsp;&nbsp;Ukraine was to announce that they were investigating Democrats from the 2016 election, and Trump\u2019s current political rival, Joe Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ignore the Facts<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every aspect of the whistleblower\u2019s report has been verified from transcripts and first-hand testimony.\u00a0\u00a0In fact, multiple witnesses have made it clear that the President\u2019s\u00a0\u201cask for a favor\u201d was more than just a single request in a phone conversation.\u00a0\u00a0Mr. Trump\u2019s representatives have pressured the Ukraine government for months on multiple fronts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Trump\u2019s defenders are ignoring the facts.\u00a0\u00a0Instead, they are screaming about the process.\u00a0\u00a0They demanded that the committee have open sessions, and even declared the without them, the entire investigative process is invalid.\u00a0\u00a0Last week,  the House of Representatives passed a formal resolution of impeachment inquiry.  It included open hearings and unprecedented opportunities for the President\u2019s representatives to participate.   The Republican defenders said it still wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They are searching for a distraction, for a false narrative to alter the course of events.&nbsp;&nbsp;The goal:&nbsp;&nbsp;if they can somehow make the facts not matter, then they can discredit the impeachment process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Change the Subject<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Republicans started with Trumpian name-calling. \u201cShifty\u201d Schiff was the President\u2019s attempt to \u201cbrand\u201d the Democratic Chairman of the Intelligence Committee.\u00a0\u00a0Mr. Trump has even called for Schiff to be prosecuted for \u201cmisrepresenting\u201d the President\u2019s conversation in an open hearing earlier this year.\u00a0\u00a0But the Republicans have been unable to make anything \u201cstick\u201d on Mr. Schiff, and the Committee\u2019s investigation moves on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So Republicans need a new \u201cbone\u201d to chew.\u00a0\u00a0And the one they\u2019ve chosen  is the whistleblower.\u00a0\u00a0They hope that if they can  find out who he\/she is, then they can discredit him\/her, and discredit the entire investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This isn\u2019t a new tactic:\u00a0\u00a0it\u2019s the same trick they tried with the Mueller investigation.\u00a0\u00a0In fact, the entire \u201cCrowdStrike\u201d conspiracy theory (that the theft of Democratic emails in 2016 was done from Ukraine, not Russia, and at the behest of US intelligence) is a fiction created to discredit Mueller.  They argue that if the investigation of the Trump campaign was instigated by a US intelligence operation, rather than the Russians, then the entire Mueller Report is invalid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">On the Altar<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So if Republicans can discredit the \u201cwhistleblower\u201d they think they can discredit the impeachment inquiry, regardless of the facts.\u00a0\u00a0They want his\/her name, they want to investigate his\/her contacts, and family, and political affiliations.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Did he\/she work for Democrats; are they registered to vote as a Democrat, can they establish some aura of bias?\u00a0\u00a0Wreck the whistleblower\u2019s life \u2013 regardless of the truth, or what  protection the law says he\/she should have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s already happening.\u00a0\u00a0Republican Senator Rand Paul, in a Trump Rally last night, said he knows who the whistleblower is.  He pointed to the media, demanded that they \u201c\u2026do your job and print his name\u201d. \u00a0\u00a0The partisan crowd followed up with chants of \u201cdo your job, do your job:\u201d so much for whistleblower protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alt-right media already has a name \u2013 and they are doing everything they can to discredit the individual.&nbsp;&nbsp;Whether that really is the whistleblower, or someone who conveniently fits the \u201cprofile\u201d the Trump support team wants, is not clear.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is clear is that Republicans are willing to violate the \u201cProtection Act,\u201d and even destroy the whistleblower\u2019s career and life,  to change the subject.\u00a0\u00a0They will sacrifice his\/her to distract from the real issue:\u00a0\u00a0that the President of the United States has committed impeachable offenses.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The stakes are high.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Whistleblower needs to be sacrificed on the altar of Trumpism:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cry is going out:&nbsp;&nbsp;kill the Whistleblower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elmer Fudd \u2013 Kill the Rabbit Whistleblower Act The \u201cWhistleblower Protection Act of 1989\u201d was passed by Congress to protect Federal Government employees. It protects employees who find that their agency is committing fraud, waste, abuse, illegality or corruption.\u00a0\u00a0The law established the Office of Special Counsel, an independent agency to investigate charges made by whistleblowers, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2019\/11\/05\/kill-the-whistleblower\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kill the Whistleblower&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kill the Whistleblower : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If you don&#039;t have the facts - attack the process. 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