Aethelwitha

Wondering why you don’t do a show on whistleblowers? All the problems you cover were often exposed by whistleblowers. And whistleblowers are the one thing Congress agrees on-loudly proclaim them heroes, but don’t fix the system that destroys them.

Actually they tried to throw Ellsberg in jail too. But maybe that’s the real issue-you just referred to him as a hero even though he was treated similarly to Reality Winner. Everyone loves to celebrate whistleblowers, but no one wants to discuss how whistleblowers, to the last, are always retaliated against and almost always lose their job. We can’t be heroes and villains at the same time. But we are.

Either your think Tom Drake is a criminal (the fed govt did) or a hero for exposing 9/11 crap at NSA. You either think Daniel Hale is a villain (he’s in jail) or he’s a hero for exposing the Pentagon’s indiscriminate drone killing of children. Which is it?