(February 7, 2019 at 6:38 pm)Yonadav Wrote:(February 7, 2019 at 6:14 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: The law doesn't exist to shield criminals from whistleblowers.
Whistleblowing isn't self deputizing and conducting an unlawful search and seizure.
So if Obama or Trump for that matter, in theory, were to target you as a civilian because you spoke out against them, even if you had done nothing wrong, and a Secret Service agent or the CIA caught wind of that, you'd want them to say, "oh well, he's the president, what are you going to do"?
By your logic the leaks that lead to uncovering Nixon should not have happened.
If your argument is that Whistleblowing can get political, I'd agree with that. But not all whistileblowing is.
Even outside politics, say at a workplace. Say you observe unsafe working practices, or your boss cooking the books, do you let it happen and let others get physically or financial hurt because of power and greed, or do you say something to stop it?
Imagine if someone under Bernie Madoff had rated him out when he first started his Ponzy scheme? 40 billion dollars would still be in the hands of his investors and not him. Where is he now? Rightfully in prison where he belongs.
