On Feb 11, 2018, Daily Beast’s Kevin Poulsen had an interesting article titled: “U.S. Intelligence Shuts Down Damning Report on Whistleblower Retaliation.” At the top of the article, it asserts the watchdog’s report found only once did intelligence bureaucrats find in favor of the whistleblower retailiation in 190 cases related to fraud abuse or criminality reported up chain of command.

When people like former CIA Director and likely Secretary of State Mike Pompeo call whistleblowers like Edward Snowden who revealed constitutionally questionable mass surveillance “traitors.” The US government will kill citizens without Article III trials, even in abstentia, like Anwar Al-Awlaki, once declared enemies of the state. It will rendition and torture people to black sites, and hold people indefinitely without Article III trials, and even force feed them if they try to starve themselves to regain a final sense of self determination. Snowden and Assange, are faced the wrath of these actors, so when we discuss their actions I think we should put it in context. And this report puts it even more in context.

The sole case where whistleblowers had some vindication out of 190, took,only over two years, 742 days. Some took longer, one case from 2010 still was not resolved. The Intelligence Community’s IG’ report was nearing completition after a 6 month inspection, but may have been aborted in April by the new office head Wayne Stone, after discovery one of the inspectors was also a whistleblower in a federal lawsuit with the CIA. The report was not discussed in the semiannual report to congress, and took 3 years of staff work. It is still not public, thus may not exist for all I know—but the IG office declined comment on the report.

The IC IG probe was staffed by six experienced bureaucrats, 3, from IC IG staff, and three others, one each from DIA, CIA and FBI.

Source

https://www.thedailybeast.com/us-intelligence-shut-downs-damning-report-on-whistleblower-retaliation

http://www.pogo.org/about/press-room/releases/2017/cia-whistleblower-lawsuit.html

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