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There are legal avenues for whistleblowing through IGs and/or Congress. You can't write a law that gives journalists special access to classified information a
by devman0 4y ago
There are legal avenues for whistleblowing through IGs and/or Congress.
You can't write a law that gives journalists special access to classified information and giving them arbitrary information is ok, how would that even work? (That's without getting in to the complications of defining 'journalist').
If you wanted to argue that leaking information of illegal government activity in certain circumstances is an affirmative defense I could possibly get behind that, the devil would be in the details.
- rzz3 4y agoIs there evidence of such avenues being effective, specially within the US Intelligence Community? I can’t find any.
- Teever 4y agoif those legal avenues are implemented/neutered by the same people who implement the illegal programs for the purpose of mitigatingthe actions of whistleblowers can you really say that theyre legal avenues? what would you do in this situation?
- lapcat 4y ago> There are legal avenues for whistleblowing through IGs and/or Congress. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Ukraine_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Ukraine_scandal In this case the legal avenues were followed, yet the Director of National Intelligence decided not to inform Congress of the whistleblower report, despite being legally required. The administration could have squelched the report if Michael Atkinson hadn't informed Congress himself, and of course Atkinson was later fired by the President. Why should a whistleblower trust the very administration they're ratting out?
- alaricus 4y ago> There are legal avenues for whistleblowing through IGs and/or Congress. Do these ever work? The people you are blowing the whistle to are the same ones doing the shady illegal stuff.