Let’s get one thing straight: those in Washington who work to punish and imprison government employees for exposing unethical, and highly illegal activities — are not only operating outside of social norms, they are actively covering up criminal acts and policies.
Those who target whistleblowers in government and in media, are not doing so as patriots, they are doing so on behalf of a secretive shadow executive. This needs to stop, if the United States is to salvage any remnants of credibility — not only in the eyes of international onlookers, but in the eyes of Americans at home.
There’s been much to do about NSA whistelblower Ed Snowden and Bradley (Chelsea) Manning, but the political persecution of General James Cartwright (photo, left) is perhaps the most telling of this year’s cases. Cartwright spoke to the press about an dubious CIA-Israel operation targeting civilian nuclear power facilities which put millions of lives at risk. Others have done the same and paid a heavy price at the hands of cowardly Mandarins in Washington DC.
Crime is an industry in Washington, and profits are generated from practices and policies that are clearly wrong and counterproductive in terms of the national interest. Washington’s criminal elements are embedded in the White House, various Senate and House “oversight” committees (whose job is to oversee criminal practices), the CIA and in the Pentagon. Those who target whistleblowers are only doing so to cover-up crimes by individuals, institutions and the mobs who interact with these parties.
These are merely a few examples of what is wrong with the secretive mentality…