{"id":20409,"date":"2016-05-04T05:59:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T10:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20409"},"modified":"2016-05-04T05:59:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T10:59:02","slug":"whistleblowing-is-not-just-leaking-its-an-act-of-political-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20409","title":{"rendered":"Whistleblowing Is Not Just Leaking \u2014 It\u2019s an Act of Political Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cI<\/span>\u2019VE BEEN WAITING\u00a040 years for someone like you.\u201d Those were the first words Daniel Ellsberg spoke to me when we met last year. Dan and I felt an immediate kinship; we both knew what it meant to risk so much \u2014 and to be irrevocably changed \u2014 by revealing secret truths.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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One of the challenges of being a whistleblower is living with the knowledge that people continue to sit, just as you did, at those desks, in that unit, throughout the agency, who see what you saw and comply in silence, without resistance or complaint. They learn to live not just with untruths but with unnecessary untruths, dangerous untruths, corrosive untruths. It is a double tragedy: What begins as a survival strategy ends with the compromise of the human being it sought to preserve and the diminishing of the democracy meant to justify the sacrifice.<\/p>\n

But unlike Dan Ellsberg, I didn\u2019t have to wait 40\u00a0years to witness other citizens breaking that silence with documents. Ellsberg gave the Pentagon Papers to the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0and other newspapers in 1971; Chelsea Manning provided the Iraq and Afghan War logs and the Cablegate materials to WikiLeaks in 2010. I came forward in 2013. Now here we are in 2016, and another person of courage and conscience has made available the set of extraordinary documents that are published in\u00a0The Assassination Complex<\/a><\/em>, the new book out today by Jeremy Scahill and the staff of\u00a0The<\/em>\u00a0Intercept.\u00a0<\/em>(The documents were originally published last October 15\u00a0in\u00a0The Drone Papers<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

We are witnessing a compression of the working period in which bad policy shelters in the shadows, the time frame in which unconstitutional activities can continue before they are exposed by acts of conscience.<\/p>\n

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Whistleblowing Is Not Just Leaking \u2014 It\u2019s an Act of Political Resistance \u201cI\u2019VE BEEN WAITING\u00a040 years for someone like you.\u201d Those were the first words Daniel Ellsberg spoke to me when we met last year. Dan and I felt an immediate kinship; we both knew what it meant to risk so much \u2014 and to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[135,249,9840,13717,5567,13716],"class_list":["post-20409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-cia","tag-edward-snowden","tag-leaks","tag-political-resistance","tag-the-intercept","tag-whistleblowing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20410,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20409\/revisions\/20410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}