Gen. Barry McCaffrey (ret.) Sounds The Alarm About Trump’s Pentagon Shakeup

The New York Times reports that Trump is replacing the civilian leadership at the Pentagon with unqualified Fox News commentators and his political sycophants. Trump Stacks the Pentagon and Intel Agencies With Loyalists. To What End? President Trump’s abrupt installation of a group of hard-line loyalists into senior jobs at the Pentagon has elevated officials … Read more

Donald Trump admits he has never confronted Putin about Russian bounties on U.S. soldiers (updated)

Jonathan Swan of Axios did an interview with Donald Trump for “Axios on HBO” on Tuesday.  Swan specifically confronted Trump with the question that a cowered White House press corps has failed to confront him with for much of the past month: “Have you confronted Russian President Vladimir Putin about U.S. intelligence reports that Russia … Read more

Breaking news today about the whistleblower

I explained the whistleblower statute and related provisions of law in early November. Donald Trump and his thugs in Congress are openly violating the whistleblower law and engaging in unlawful witness intimidation. Republicans are still doing it, it is a central feature of their raving and ranting to disrupt the impeachment hearings. The Washington Post … Read more

Donald Trump and his thugs in Congress are openly violating the whistleblower law and engaging in unlawful witness intimidation (Updated)

The most recent summary of whistleblower protections for the Intelligence Community (“IC”) can be found in this Congressional Research Service Report, Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protections (Updated September 23, 2019). Members of the Intelligence Community do not share the same robust protection as other federal employees against retaliation for having made a whistleblower complaint (excerpt, pp. … Read more