Snowden And The FDLE
By Rick Boettger
Edward Snowden exposed our federal mass spying p
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Nice article, Rick. I think I recall reading Snowden’s disclosures compromised some US intelligence operations and operators. I would not be surprised if that is so. Rock and hard place, once Snowden’s conscience finally kicked in.
I have mused a few times, were I El Presidente Obomber, I would have called a press conference and told the world, to tell Snowden, that I want him to come home and work for me at his old salary and benefits, for so long as I am President. He will be my adviser on US intelligence agencies and their doings. if he accepts that mission, he is conditionally pardoned. If he sticks with that mission and stays with me for so long as I am President, his pardon is full, unconditional. Maybe Snowden gets word of my offer before I am bumped off. 🙂
Locally, FDLE is not looking good in Eimers case, but the Medical Examiner’s just released autopsy throws FDLE and KWPD and City Hall a bone. Eimers died accidentally. Meaning, it was all his fault his heart stopped beating after hypoxia (lack of oxygen) set in, as, face down on the sand, he struggled mightily to escape and run away, after he had docile as a lamb surrendered and lay face down on the beach.
Did I miss something? Yeah, he caused his heart to stop beating by giving the cops the impression he was homeless.
I wonder how the Medical Examiner would have fared, if he were to have switched places with Eimers and they cops thought he, the Medical Examiner, was homeless.
Ciao maim
Rick, you are spot on. I speak from personal experience as a whistleblower and victim to violence/hostile work environment within the (local) US Postal Service. Laws that “protect” government whistleblowers are nothing but a sham, even more so within the USPS who exclude employees from certain “protections” and even have their own private Gestapo called the USPS Inspection Service to insure the agency’s dirty deeds are not exposed.
I believe whistleblower laws that offer these bogus protections exist only to draw those of conscience into the open for targeting by the guilty agency for better damage control. There is no justice for whistleblowers and are often dismissed as “disgruntled employees” by both the agency and the public. Whistleblowers who trust the government to protect them for exposing government crimes are complaining to the Devil about his demons.