Good song : Gotta Serve Somebody
No Ma'am, maybe in ordinary cases whistle-blowing , sounding the alarm cannot be said to be the same as espionage , but this case is very different : "a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose job would be jeopardized by its disclosure " - is that not spying?
And in that case how do you or the New York Times know that the person in question is not working for a foreign power? How do we even know that the New York Times is not working for a foreign power? (The months that I spent in London during the Monica Lewinsky Affair, I was made to understand ( by one who knows) that there are over 300 ( three hundred ) very influential newspapers in the US being controlled by specific British interests . Please don't smile: The one ( in question) who knows, also happens to believe that the US is still a British colony and that Her Majesty has still not signed the papers that ratify "the causes which impel them to the separation"
Above all we/ I should be very interested to know more about the security around Mr. President. Is the unidentified one - the author - a member of that squad?
There is a definitive air of secrecy, of spying, espionage on the president, in this speaking truth to power in the incognito mode in these given circumstances – boasting about it in the so called national interest, even lifting papers off his desk so that he cannot sign them and thereby put America in danger.
Is that not in effect "spying" He knows who his object is ( Trump) but Trump doesn't know who he is. In fact isn't that the first step for a spy or a mole, that he or she has a good cover story, a reason for being where he or she is?
And this "Whistle-blower" cannot be awarded a badge of courage or civil courage - at least not yet, since he /she says that in order to continue to be effective he/she must continue to conceal his/her identity - to the very end : "until he ( President Trump) is out of office."
That's exercising a lot of power over the president. And if that's the way it is, then why do they have to tell the whole world about it?
We are told that, "many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations. I would know. I am one of them. "
This is followed by referring to the resistance group as "we" - seven times more up to "So we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until — one way or another — it's over. "
and then in the last paragraph it's a much bigger "we" :
"The bigger concern is not what Mr. Trump has done to the presidency but rather what we as a nation have allowed him to do to us. We have sunk low with him and allowed our discourse to be stripped of civility "
The moment we know WHO wrote the NYT anonymous Ed - we should be able to define him more clearly...
Here is President Trump himself expressing some precise fear :
"Supposing I have a high-level national security, and he has got a clearance, we talked about clearances a lot recently, and he goes into a high-level meeting concerning China or Russia or North Korea or something. I don't want him in those meetings."
The "he" in question is the anonymous author of the NYT Opinion Ed
This doesn't look too good: : John Kerry passing judgment on President Trump
As for me, a few days after Yom Kippur , I hope to be in Budapest where I also intend to visit the burial site of Endre Ady and immerse myself in the music of some of the Great Hungarian composers , returning to Stockholm sometime after the dust of the post- election battles have settled and we have a government that shall run the country again - not run it to the ground....
Pray for us
On Monday, 10 September 2018 10:14:38 UTC+2, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) wrote:
"Is treason, such as selling or telling state secrets to a foreign power or spying for a foreign country not a serious offence in the United States as it is elsewhere?" CH
What is the name of the foreign power in this case? Is whistleblowing the same as espionage?
In the case of the clergy of the Catholic Church, pedophilia and confessions. Who will guard the watchman?
GE
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