{"id":185891,"date":"2014-07-22T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/07\/22\/why-snowden-going-through-channels-was-never-a-real-options\/"},"modified":"2014-07-22T19:03:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T00:03:00","slug":"why-snowden-going-through-channels-was-never-a-real-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/07\/22\/why-snowden-going-through-channels-was-never-a-real-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Snowden Going Through Channels was Never a Real Options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NPR looks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/07\/22\/333741495\/before-snowden-the-whistleblowers-who-tried-to-lift-the-veil\">what happened to other people who attempted to complain about agency misconduct<\/a>, and it ain&#8217;t pretty:&nbsp; Harassment, bogus charges, and systematic vilification, specifically the cases of Bill Binney and Thomas Drake.<\/p>\n<p>I think that the quote describes just how effective the inspectors general are about such things:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;Perhaps it&#8217;s the case that we could&#8217;ve shown, we could&#8217;ve explained to Mr. Snowden his misperceptions, his lack of understanding of what we do,&#8221; <span style=\"color: black;\">[NSA Inspector General George]<\/span> Ellard said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">We he is refer&#8221;Perhaps it&#8217;s the case that we could&#8217;ve shown, we could&#8217;ve explained to Mr. Snowden his misperceptions, his lack of understanding of what we do,&#8221; Ellard said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you listen to the interview, you realize that he&#8217;s not talking the Inspector General&#8217;s office, he&#8217;s talking about the NSA.<\/p>\n<p>The IG, and the whole whistle blowing apparatus are completely captured, and have not the slightest interest in addressing any potential issues.<\/p>\n<p>His goal is <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">talking Edward Snowden and other potential whistle-blowers out of actually blowing the whistle<\/span><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, it as it is noted in in the report, the new &#8220;protections&#8221; for intelligence operatives <b>does not apply to contractors<\/b>, and almost all new hires of the intelligence agencies are contractors.<\/p>\n<p>How convenient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR looks at what happened to other people who attempted to complain about agency misconduct, and it ain&#8217;t pretty:&nbsp; Harassment, bogus charges, and systematic vilification, specifically the cases of Bill Binney and Thomas Drake. I think that the quote describes just how effective the inspectors general are about such things: &#8220;Perhaps it&#8217;s the case that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1097,969,1051,1102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-constitution","category-evil","category-hypocrisy","category-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}