"'With Scott Bloch at the helm, the Office of Special Counsel is acting as a Plumber's Unit for the Bush administration, plugging leaks, blocking investigations and discrediting sources,' stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch. 'Under Bloch, political appointees, not civil servants, decide which cases go forward and which cases are round filed.'"
Given the importance of whistleblowers to the modern history of our country -- everyone from Deep Throat to the 2002 Time magazine "Persons of the Year" (Cynthia Cooper, of WorldCom; Sherron Watkins, of Enron; and Coleen Rowley, whose warnings to her superiors in the FBI about the presumed "20th Hijacker" of 9/11 fell on deaf ears) -- the prosecutions and persecutions of whistleblowers by this administration is absolutely mortifying, yet not in the least surprising.
From electoral results that defy all statistical probability and journalists paid-off in this country and in our "showcase democracy" overseas to intelligence and facts "fixed around the policy" of going to war and the first indictment of a sitting senior White House official since before Grant was in his tomb, this administration has demonstrated a consistent -- some would say criminal -- pattern of utter contempt for the truth; and in a democracy, that translates into utter contempt for every last one of us citizens (of every political persuasion) and for the very concept of America.
Moreover, suppressing those who blow the whistle on shortcomings in our fight against terrorism jeopardizes the very existence of America.
At least in the opinion of those of us who believe in the inestimable value as well as the inalienable right of free speech and a free press.
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Given the importance of whistleblowers to the modern history of our country -- everyone from Deep Throat to the 2002 Time magazine "Persons of the Year" (Cynthia Cooper, of WorldCom; Sherron Watkins, of Enron; and Coleen Rowley, whose warnings to her superiors in the FBI about the presumed "20th Hijacker" of 9/11 fell on deaf ears) -- the prosecutions and persecutions of whistleblowers by this administration is absolutely mortifying, yet not in the least surprising.
From electoral results that defy all statistical probability and journalists paid-off in this country and in our "showcase democracy" overseas to intelligence and facts "fixed around the policy" of going to war and the first indictment of a sitting senior White House official since before Grant was in his tomb, this administration has demonstrated a consistent -- some would say criminal -- pattern of utter contempt for the truth; and in a democracy, that translates into utter contempt for every last one of us citizens (of every political persuasion) and for the very concept of America.
Moreover, suppressing those who blow the whistle on shortcomings in our fight against terrorism jeopardizes the very existence of America.
NOTE: The Action Page link below is non-functional; please go to the re-posting for a functional link, to support the Honest Chief as well as our own security and liberties.
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