Groundbreaking 'War on Whistleblowers' Investigation Exposes Obama Admin's Record of Censorship and Persecution of Unsung Heroes and Journalists
The 9/11 attacks on America did not just launch Washington’s war on terrorism; they launched a new White House war on whistleblowers, first under President George W. Bush and then under President Barack Obama, according to a bold new documentary directed by filmmaker Robert Greenwald.
War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State traces how two of the most powerful and secretive Washington power centers—the Pentagon’s military-industrial complex and Internet era’s national security state—ran amok after 9/11 and declared war on a handful of whistleblowers who went to the press to expose lies, fraud and abuses that meant life or death for troops and spying on millions of Americans. It explores why Obama, who promised the most transparent administration, became the most secretive president in recent decades and even more vindictive to intelligence-related whistleblowers than George W. Bush.
This was the 2nd reason that I didn't vote for Obama, right behind his pathetic record on environmental issues. This administration has been not just disappointing, but frightening in its implicit, if not complicit, human rights abuses/unethical acts.
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
OmniScience wrote: Of course, its ALL ABOUT CONTROL. Left, right, whatever, more and more government control.
Of course, we ALLOWED it to happen, because after 9/11,we AGREED wholeheartedly that SECURITY was paramount and we should
do everything to eliminate threat(perceived or otherwise).......I believe WE opened pandora's box, agreeing that our safety TRUMPED
our privacy......JMO
We have met the enemy and he is us? Maybe we should have just shrugged our shoulders and prepared for the next blow? Turn the other cheek like a good Christian nation?
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
A wholesale acceptance of gov. "protection" was a "sheeple" mindset......critical thinking vacated the premises.......just like the new
technology that we now DEMAND to own (smartphones).......there is NO privacy and the issue of control has been relinquished YEARS
ago......JMO
OmniScience wrote: Of course, its ALL ABOUT CONTROL. Left, right, whatever, more and more government control.
Of course, we ALLOWED it to happen, because after 9/11,we AGREED wholeheartedly that SECURITY was paramount and we should
do everything to eliminate threat(perceived or otherwise).......I believe WE opened pandora's box, agreeing that our safety TRUMPED
our privacy......JMO
This has been going long before 9/11. As OmniScience said it's all about control.
