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I guess this guy never played with G.I. Joe toys as a kid.

 

You do understand that whistleblowers are supposed to have their identity hidden?

 

Alma's badinage is more charming if you take into account he/she doesn't believe what's being posted.

 

For the next MAGA rally:

 

Only the best words

 

You can't make this up. To clarify, Stone testified that he only talked to his fall guy, Credico, by phone because "he wasn't an e-mailing guy".

 

One of the main purposes of the whistle blower statutes is to place emphasis on solving problems or stopping crimes instead of on who is raising the concern.

If we look back at other recent situations that involved potential impeachment, the example of Mark Felt (aka Deep Throat) might parallel the concept of a whistleblower best, even though his approach was to Washington Post reporters instead of within government mechanisms. Felt was able to protect his identity for decades.

The Clinton impeachment example is a bit different. I’m a bit puzzled as to why some in the folks in the GOP are so wrapped up in the possible political affiliations of the person who helped bring one of Trump’s possible impeachable offenses to light when Linda Tripp and Lucianne Goldberg had strong GOP affiliations and used methods that were not strictly legal to collect evidence. (As an aside, I think that, if today’s standards were applied, the Clinton presidency would have been cut short as a consequence of his misdeeds with Monica Lewinsky.)

 

There's also the classification problem.

Whistleblowing laws exist in the classified realm because it would otherwise be easy to classify adverse information, and declare "sorry - you have no need to know" if whistleblowers don't have a path open to them to flag classified information for uncleared or otherwise-no-need-to-know persons in a position of oversight.

... which, weirdly, was exactly what happened here - White House officials knew the phone call was a problem, and they immediately tried to over-classify it, to keep it hidden.