Chip Gibbons says the Trump administration should not be using the Espionage Act against Bolton, who himself used the overly broad, archaic law as a tool for political persecution.
John Bolton & Abuses of the Espionage Act
Tag: Whistleblowers
Free Speech and Its Discontents
A government that can silence the speech you hate today can silence the speech you love tomorrow, writes Judge Andrew Napolitano.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Out-of-Control Gov’t Targets Business ‘Whistleblowers’
The FTC targeted businessman James Douvas for ruin in $216 million lawsuit. It’s yet another case of federal officials with too much power, an unlimited budget, and a need for a scalp.
Ex-Elite UK Troops Recount War Crimes in Iraq & Afghanistan
Those who exposed illegalities — including Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, John Kiriakou & David McBride — were almost always the only ones punished for the crimes they exposed.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: An Unpardonable Process
It’s an insurmountable conflict of interest to have the U.S. pardon attorney reporting directly to the Justice Department’s person in charge of prosecutions.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: The South Korean ‘Spy’ Affair
Ignoring the headlines about the case, let’s look at what it is that ex-C.I.A. analyst Sue Mi Terry is actually accused of doing.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: The Heroism of David McBride
By 2014 McBride had compiled a dossier into profound command failings that saw examples of potential war crimes in Afghanistan overlooked and other soldiers wrongly accused. On Tuesday he was sentenced to nearly six years in jail.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Child’s Play at the FBI
Why prosecute Medicare/Medicaid fraud or bank fraud or wire fraud when you can, let’s say, wait for a kid in a chat room to turn 18?
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Imprisoned With Covid
Thanks to a courageous whistleblower, we can see how leadership of the Dallas Jail led to unnecessary deaths and how leaders continued to double down on their bad decisions.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: The Godfather of Whistleblowers
When the author blew the whistle on the C.I.A.’s torture program in 2007, Daniel Ellsberg called to congratulate him and say he had friends at his side. Years later, at a red-carpet event in Hollywood, the “most dangerous man in…