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    Re: The ‘Whistleblower’ Probably Isn’t by Matt Taibi Archived Message

    Posted by Raskolnikov on October 8, 2019, 5:40 pm, in reply to "The ‘Whistleblower’ Probably Isn’t by Matt Taibi"

    Looks like a good read; thanks for posting it.

    Here's a good one on the same topic by Caitlin Johnstone:

    https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/msm-defends-cias-whistleblower-ignores-actual-whistleblowers-5fbe577d988d

    Caitlin compares and contrasts the way the media has celebrated this CIA source with how they ignore the continued persecution of Chelsea Manning. I liked this sequence, especially the first paragraph:

    So there you have it. A mysterious stranger from the lying, torturing, propagandizing, drug trafficking, assassinating, coup-staging, warmongering, psychopathic CIA 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 the 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 don’t get to call someone from the US intelligence community a whistleblower unless they are actually whistleblowing on the US intelligence community. That’s not a thing. A CIA officer who exposes information about government officials is an operative performing an operation unless proven otherwise, because that’s what the CIA does; it liberally leaks information wherever it’s 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 CIA’s 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.

    I like Matt Taibbi. I just got his new book, "Hate Inc", which should be a good read.

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