MSM Defends CIAs "Whistleblower", Ignores Actual Whistleblowers by Caitlin Johnstone!
(2019-09-26 at 23:05:32 )

MSM Defends CIAs "Whistleblower", Ignores Actual Whistleblowers by Caitlin Johnstone

The word "whistleblower" has been trending in news headlines lately, but not for the reasons that any sane person might hope for.

"Read the whistleblower complaint regarding President Trumps communications with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky", says The Washington Post. "Trump responds to hearing on whistleblower complaint", says MSNBC. "Trump-Ukraine scandal: what did the whistleblower say and how serious is it?", writes The Guardian. "Whistleblower complaint says White House tried to "lock down" Ukraine call records" announces CBS. "Whistleblowers complaint is a devastating report from a savvy official", declares CNN.

So who is this "savvy official"? Who is this courageous whistleblower who boldly shone the light of truth upon the mechanisms of power in the interests of the common man?

Who is this brave, selfless individual who set off an impeachment inquiry by taking a stand and revealing the fact that the United States president made a phone call in July urging Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to help investigate corruption allegations against Joe Biden and his son?

Well believe it or not, according to The New York Times this brave, noble whistleblower who the mainstream media are currently championing is an officer for the Central Intelligence Agency.

"The whistle-blower who revealed that President Trump sought foreign help for his re-election and that the White House sought to cover it up is a Central Intelligence Agency officer who was detailed to work at the White House at one point, according to three people familiar with his identity," The New York Times reports. "The man has since returned to the Central Intelligence Agency, the people said. Little else is known about him."

So there you have it. A mysterious stranger from the lying, torturing, propagandizing, drug trafficking, assassinating, coup-staging, warmongering, psychopathic Central Intelligence Agency was working in the White House, heroically provided the political-media class with politically powerful information out of the goodness of his heart, and then vanished off into Langley sunset.

Clearly there is nothing suspicious about this story at all.

In all seriousness, even to call this spook a "whistleblower" is ridiculous on its face.

You do not get to call someone from the United States intelligence community a whistleblower unless they are actually whistleblowing on the United States intelligence community.

That is not a thing.

A CIA officer who exposes information about government officials is an operative performing an operation unless proven otherwise, because that is what the CIA does; it liberally leaks information wherever it is convenient for CIA agendas while withholding all other information behind a veil of government secrecy.

A CIA officer who exposes information about CIA wrongdoings without the CIAs permission is a whistleblower.

A CIA officer who exposes information about someone else is just a spook doing spook things. You can recognize the latter by the way the mass media supports, applauds and employs them. You can recognize the former by the way they have been persecuted, imprisoned, and-or died under mysterious circumstances.

But if you listen to the billionaire media, we should be calling this CIA officer a whistleblower, we should be enraged at The New York Times for exposing that CIA officers identity, and we should be raising a small fortune on GoFundMe for "legal aid" that this CIA officer will never need.

"The idea that the media needs to "protect" a high-level CIA officer making explosive claims about the president, which have now been used as the basis for impeachment proceedings, is such an insane perversion of journalistic ethics," journalist Michael Tracey tweeted today on this new development.

While all this political-media class cheerleading for whistleblower protections is going on, the most prominent whistleblower in the United States of America remains imprisoned for taking a principled stand against secret grand juries while being driven into crippling debt.

Chelsea Manning is still racking up fines of $1,000 per day while locked in a Virginia federal detention center for refusing to testify against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

The mainstream press that is so keen to champion a "whistleblower" who works for the CIA and provided information which feeds into the United States of Americas fake partisan pro wrestling feud has been almost completely silent on the actual whistleblower who exposed actual United States war crimes.

"The courageous whistleblower Chelsea Manning has now been held in a federal detention center in Alexandria, Virginia for more than six months," reads a recent article by World Socialist Website, one of the only news outlets to consistently report on Ms Mannings plight. "Ms Manning has not been charged with or committed any crime. She was sent to jail on March 8, 2019 for refusing to testify before a secret grand jury that has indicted persecuted WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange, who published the information she leaked exposing rampant United States imperialist criminality."

"The vindictive treatment of Chelsea Manning has included "administrative segregation"-a prison euphemism for solitary confinement-and being fined an unprecedented $1,000 per day for refusing to answer grand jury questions," WSWS reports.

"By the time she might be released in October 2020, she will be left owing the United States government as much as $440,000.

Convicted antiwar activist Jeremy Hammond, who provided intelligence documents to WikiLeaks, has been also brought to the same jail as Ms Manning in order to coerce him into giving false testimony."

"On a scale of -haha- to -lol,- how likely would you say it is that politicians sudden interest in whistleblowing will lead to the reform of the Espionage Act, which the government has routinely used to jail the sources behind some of the most important stories in United States history?" tweeted NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in response to an Onion article satirizing the latest hypocrisy.

Pointing out hypocrisy is such a common practice in politics that it often wears a bit thin these days, especially since it is frequently done in a disingenuous way, but when implemented with intellectual honesty it serves a very useful purpose: it shows when people are not really being truthful about the position that they are taking.

The political-media class of the United States do not care about whistleblowers. They do not care about truth, and they do not care about justice. They do not care about holding power to account, because they exist only to serve power.

I do not pretend to know what the CIAs game is here; it probably is not to remove President Trump from office because everyone knows that will not happen and failed impeachments historically boost a presidents popularity. But I do know that everyone cheerleading for this fake "whistleblower" while ignoring the real ones has exposed themselves.

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