Whistleblowers multiplying and yet nothing happens
by digby
Apparently, there’s a whole lot of possible wrongdoing in the IC these days:
The number of complaints made to a confidential hotline designed to allow the reporting of waste, fraud and abuse in the intelligence community has skyrocketed since Donald Trump took office, government records show.
According to the latest public report by the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, the hotline received 563 contacts last year, up from 251 in 2016 and 369 in 2017.
The numbers for the latest fiscal year are on pace to be even higher: There were 297 complaints in just the first six months — from October 2018 through last March, according to the report.
The report doesn’t describe the complaints or tally how many of those rose to the level of an “urgent concern”—a category of serious complaints that must be turned over to Congress. Officials involved in the process say that designation is rare.
With the new DNI sharing these complaints with Trump’s top henchman, Bill Barr, and the White House whenever he wants to this seems like it might be a risky move. I’d be surprised if the numbers don’t drop precipitously after this latest assault on the notion of executive accountability for anything. Who knows if these people will follow the whistleblower laws?
And anyway we all know they are all just Deep State Hillary Clinton stooges who are out to get the president. The only people who are telling the truth are those who are defending him in all circumstances.
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