{"id":381576,"date":"2018-10-19T03:03:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T02:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-the-fbi-silences-whistleblowers-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2018-10-19T03:03:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T02:03:57","slug":"how-the-fbi-silences-whistleblowers-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-the-fbi-silences-whistleblowers-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"How the FBI Silences Whistleblowers \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Speaking truth to power has ruined Darin Jones, a former FBI contract specialist who reported evidence of\u00a0serious procurement improprieties. He should be the last federal whistleblower victimized, writes John Kiriakou.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

By John Kiriakou<\/strong><\/span>
Special to Consortium News<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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The idea of \u201cwhistleblowing\u201d has been in the news a great deal. <\/span><\/p>\n

Is the anonymous author of a recent <\/span>New York Times<\/em> op-ed<\/span><\/a> eviscerating the president a whistleblower? \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Is the victim of an <\/span>alleged sexual assault<\/span><\/a> by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh a whistleblower? \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m fortunate to have <\/span>access to the media<\/span><\/a> to talk about torture after <\/span>blowing the whistle<\/span><\/a> on the <\/span>CIA\u2019s program<\/span><\/a>. I think Ed Snowden, Tom Drake and others would say the same thing about the aftermath of their own whistleblowing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Cost of Doing the Right Thing<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The problem is that we are the exception to the rule. Most whistleblowers either suffer in anonymity or are personally, professionally, socially and financially ruined for speaking truth to power. Darin Jones is one of those people. He\u2019s one of the people silenced in Barack Obama\u2019s war on whistleblowers. And he continues to suffer under Donald Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jones was an FBI supervisory contract specialist who in 2012 reported evidence of <\/span>serious procurement improprieties<\/span><\/a> to his superior. Jones maintained that Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) had been awarded a $40 million contract improperly<\/a> because a former FBI official with responsibility for granting the contract then was hired as a consultant at CSC. Jones said, rightly, that this was a violation of the <\/span>Procurement Integrity Act<\/span><\/a>. He made seven other disclosures alleging financial improprieties in the FBI, and he was promptly fired for his troubles. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Remember, the United States has a <\/span>Whistleblower Protection Act<\/span><\/a>. \u00a0Any federal employee who brings to light evidence of waste, fraud, abuse, illegality, or threats to the public health or public safety is protected under federal statute. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The FBI didn\u2019t care, though. Jones was a troublemaker. He was talking about his fellow FBI agents. And he had to be silenced.<\/span><\/p>\n

Immediately upon his firing, Jones appealed. He was not reinstated, however, because he had made his…<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Speaking truth to power has ruined Darin Jones, a former FBI contract specialist who reported evidence of\u00a0serious procurement improprieties. He should be the last federal whistleblower victimized, writes John Kiriakou. By John KiriakouSpecial to Consortium News The idea of \u201cwhistleblowing\u201d has been in the news a great deal. Is the anonymous author of a recent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-381576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}